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// iOS · local music library and studio in your pocket
homecrate on device

Your
music.
Your crate.

A music player and spatial studio
built for muisicians and audiophiles alike.

homecrate is a local library player built around your taste over time. A tunable algorithm, liner notes for every track, on-device intelligence that is informed more than generative, and an 8-track voice-controlled DAW packed with a suite of plugins - NAM Amp Modeler, Polyphonic Synth, and a Drum Machine. One-time Pro upgrade.
Don't need the recorder? homecrate free includes a no nonsense private music player by default. Import all your favorite songs via zip file import and metadata auto-populates with lyrics and bios.

↓ Download on App Store See what's inside →
Free
To download
$9.99
One-time Pro unlock
0
Subscriptions ever
100%
On-device AI
Music is personal.
Your taste is yours. Your files are yours. Your listening history is yours.

homecrate exists for the people who have a relationship with their music — the collectors, the musicians, the listeners who know exactly what they want and why they want it.

It plays the music you own. It asks you what you like — directly, with real controls. The AI runs entirely on your device, and your data stays on your phone.

One-time purchase. Your algorithm. Your taste. Your rules.

// what's inside

Feature packed.
Privacy built in.

Your music. Your terms. Everything runs on your device.

algorithm tuner screenshot
// player · free

Algo
Tuner.

You set it. The queue reflects it.

Explicit sliders for discovery, energy, mood, and frequency. The algorithm does what you tell it. Set it once and forget it, or adjust it for the moment you're in.

  • Time, Weather, and Mood preference game informs your local algo.
  • Weather game picks nudge your local algo but don't overdo it.
  • Avoid playing the same song twice in your defined time period.
  • 100% on-device
  • Set "Up Next" without interrupting what's currently playing.
Free
liner notes screenshot
// liner notes · free

The stuff in
the sleeve.

For the people who read the liner notes.

Import a zip of music and get synced word-by-word lyrics out of the box. Artist biographies, band members, origin, discography — pulled from a curated, verified database. The AI cites its sources and tells you when it's uncertain.

  • Synced word-by-word lyrics on import [?] Some of the millions of lyrics in the database may not have lyrics or timestamps. Report missing artist data or songs at https://support.homecrate.app.
  • Verified artist biography, members, origin, albums
  • Ask about the artist — grounded answers only
  • Music theory analysis per track
  • Quiz mode — tests what you thought you knew
Free Pro — Karaoke Mode
// player · free

An honest
algorithm.

You decide what fits the moment. The queue remembers.

Live weather. Three song choices. Your pick lightly steers what comes next. Every preference is an intentional choice you make. The queue gets smarter because you told it exactly what fits.

Free
weather mood screenshot
analytics screenshot
// analytics · free

Your stats.
Just yours.

Visible to you. Stored on your phone. That's it.

Monthly listening summaries, top artists, skip rate, the hour you tend to put your headphones on. On-device AI turns the numbers into a personality summary at the end of each month. All stored locally on your phone.

  • Play counts, skip rate, listening hours
  • Peak listening time and day patterns
  • AI-generated monthly personality summary
  • Shareable end-of-month card
Free
library ai
Anything Dave Grohl was in?
Found 3 artists in your library with Dave Grohl as a member.
Playlist generated
Foo Fighters — 14 tracks
Nirvana — 8 tracks
Them Crooked Vultures — 4 tracks
What do I listen to most on weekends?
Saturday nights lean toward post-punk and shoegaze. Your top weekend artist is Slowdive — 47 plays this month.
// library ai · free

Ask your
library anything.

An AI built around your collection.

Ask about your listening habits, find connections between artists, build playlists from plain English. "Play something like shoegaze." "Who are the members of Radiohead?" "What's my most skipped album?" Every answer is grounded in your library and verified data.

  • Band member search — "anything with Josh Homme"
  • Mood-aware playlists from real audio analysis
  • Listening stats and habit insights on demand
  • Genre discovery across your own collection
  • All on-device. Grounded in real data from your library.
Free
// pro · $9.99 once

There's a studio
in here too.

8 tracks. Voice control. A guitar amp. A theory AI. A drum machine. Spatial export. The full signal chain from practice through release, in your pocket.

studio screenshot
// pro · homecrate studio

8-track
recorder.

Stereo or spatial. What you make is yours.

A full mobile DAW built into the player. Record, mix, and export. Your recordings save as a hidden track — the player keeps your listening algo and your creative work separate automatically.

  • 8 audio tracks + 8 MIDI tracks
  • Per-channel USB audio interface support
  • Latency-compensated overdubbing
  • AUv3 plugin host — load any third-party plugin
  • Mixdown to your library, stereo or spatial
Pro
8
Audio tracks
8
MIDI tracks
Spatial
APAC export — iOS 26+
USB-C
Per-channel interface support
always listening
Arm track one and set the BPM to 120
Track 1 armed · BPM set to 120
"move this clip forward 2 measures" clip moved
"mute track 3" muted
"give me a bassline in E minor" midi generated
// pro · voice control

Talk to
the studio.

Hands on your instrument. Voice on the DAW.

The recorder listens while you play. Say what you need — arm a track, move a clip, change the tempo, generate a MIDI part — and it happens. Always-listening mode runs continuously, or use press-to-talk when you want precision. Natural language, interpreted by on-device AI, dispatched to over 20 studio commands.

  • Always-listening — speaks, pauses during recording
  • Press-to-talk with real-time transcript
  • Transport, track, clip, and plugin control by voice
  • MIDI generation from a sentence
  • Confirmation prompts for destructive actions
  • All recognition and AI processed on-device
Pro
amp head
WaveNet model
red_face_75_4vol.nam
48 kHz · −16.6 dB
1.0
Input
1.0
Output
· IR Cabinet · Bypass off ·
Cronch
Fender 12ax7
RCA
Twin
// pro · AUv3 amp modeler

NAM powered
amp.

Neural amp modeling. IR cabinet loading. Built in.

Load any .nam model file. Load any .wav impulse response. Play through it on any track in the recorder, or use it cross-app as an AUv3 in any compatible iOS DAW. A proper amp sim that travels with the player.

  • NAM neural amp modeling (WaveNet, LSTM)
  • IR cabinet loading — any .wav file
  • 5-band EQ + reverb space controls
  • Factory preset bank included
  • Cross-app AUv3 — works in any iOS host
  • Runs entirely on-device for zero-latency playback
Pro
theory ai · recorder C minor · 95 BPM
Give me a 16-bar melody in C that complements what's on track 2.
Detected a driving feel on T2 — Cm bassline, minor pentatonic. Here's a contrasting upper melody: 16 bars, laid-back, i–VI–III–VII.
Cm Upper Melody Loop
16 bars · melody · laid-back
// pro · music theory ai

Ask the app
for a riff.

On-device AI that knows what key you're in.

The recorder's theory assistant analyzes the current mix — key, tempo, chord structure — and responds in context. Ask for a melody, a bassline, a chord progression, or a complete MIDI part — by typing or just saying it out loud. It generates a playable clip you can preview and drop onto any track.

  • Detects key, BPM, and chord structure from your mix
  • "Give me a 16-bar melody in C" — done, in seconds
  • MIDI clips generated and previewed inline
  • Insert to any track or save to filesystem
  • All inference on-device via Apple Intelligence
Pro
homecrate drum 110 BPM · 4/4
Kick
Rim
Snare
Clap
Lo Tom
HH ✕
Hi Tom
HH ○
Lo Mid
Hi Mid
Crash
Ride
Kick
Snare2
Pedal
Floor
8 bar rock beat, driving
Generated — kick on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4, hats riding 8ths with open hat on the & of 4.
// pro · drum machine

Describe the
beat you hear.

16 pads. AI-generated patterns. Say what you want.

Homecrate Drum is a 16-pad MIDI drum machine built into the recorder. Tap out a pattern manually, or describe what you want — "4 bar halftime shuffle", "punchy 2-bar loop with open hats", "8 bar rock beat" — and the AI writes a step-sequencer pattern across all 16 pads. Preview it, tweak it, drop it on a MIDI track.

  • 16 General MIDI drum pads
  • AI pattern generation from plain English
  • Step sequencer with per-pad 16th-note resolution
  • Preview and insert to any MIDI track
  • Pairs with voice commands — say it, hear it
Pro
spatial audio screenshot
// pro · spatial audio

Spatial
Audio.

Position each track in 3D space. Export in Apple's APAC format.

Spectral binaural engine underneath the recorder. Per-track spatial position picker. Drift-corrected sync. Toggle per track without interrupting playback. Export as APAC on iOS 26+ or stereo with spatial metadata on earlier devices.

Pro
// pro · midi i/o

Hardware
MIDI.

Plug in your controller. It just works.

Connect any class-compliant MIDI controller over USB-C or Bluetooth. Route MIDI channels per track, sync to external clock, send and receive Song Position — the recorder behaves like a proper MIDI host.

Pro
// pro · midi editing

Piano roll.
Step sequencer.

Draw notes. Draw automation. Play them back.

Full piano roll editor for melodic parts and a step sequencer for drums. Draw notes, adjust velocity, quantize. AUv3 plugin parameter automation via drawn lanes on clips — automate any knob on any plugin over time.

Pro
// pro · tuner

Alternate
Tunings.

Drop D to E9 pedal steel. It knows them all.

Chromatic tuner using YIN autocorrelation — the algorithm that reliably finds the fundamental even when harmonics are louder. Ask for any tuning by name or description and it returns exact per-string Hz targets with gauge tension warnings so you don't snap a string.

Drop D — EXL110
D
String 6 · D2 · 73.42 Hz
+7 cents
D
73.4
A
110.0
D
146.8
G
196.0
B
246.9
E
329.6
Pro
// pro · video recording

Record video
over playback.

Your backing tracks mixed right into the take.

Overlay the camera on the recorder and capture audio and video simultaneously. Your backing mix is baked into the recording. Good for covers, good for demos, good for anything where you want to show your work.

video recording screenshot
Pro
plex sync screenshot
// pro · plex sync

Your server.
Your files.

Stream from your Plex library or download for offline listening.

Point homecrate at your Plex server and your whole library is there — same player, same algorithm, same liner notes. Stream over Wi-Fi or download for offline. Your music, wherever you are.

Pro
// pricing

One-time.
No subscription.

Own the app. Own the algorithm. Own your data.

Free
// always free · no account required
  • Local library player — FLAC, AAC, MP3, ALAC
  • Algorithm Tuner — set your own preferences explicitly
  • Library AI — ask your collection anything, get grounded answers
  • Weather Mood — trains your algo with intention
  • Liner Notes — synced lyrics, verified artist facts, AI Q&A
  • On-device analytics — visible to you only
  • Music games — trivia, lyric fill-in-the-blank, mood match
  • Custom tuner — chromatic + alternate tuning suggestions
Download
// free forever · no account required
Pro
// $9.99 · one time · yours forever
  • Everything in free
  • homecrate Studio — 8-track recorder, full mobile DAW
  • Voice-controlled studio — talk to the DAW while you play
  • NAM Amp Modeler — neural amp sim + IR cabinet, cross-app AUv3
  • Music Theory AI — ask for a riff, get a playable MIDI clip
  • Homecrate Drum — 16-pad drum machine with AI beat generation
  • Piano roll, step sequencer, and plugin automation lanes
  • MIDI I/O — hardware controllers, clock sync, per-track routing
  • AUv3 plugin host — load any third-party instrument or effect
  • Spatial audio — binaural recording and APAC export
  • Mood playlists — AI-built from real audio analysis
  • Karaoke Mode — 1M+ songs, word-by-word sync
  • Mixdown to library — stereo or spatial, saved as your track
  • Video recording — camera over backing tracks, baked mix
  • Plex Sync — stream or download from your own server
Download and upgrade to Pro — $9.99
// ios only · one purchase · no subscription · ever
homecrate on device
// get started

Your music.
Your algorithm.
Your crate.

A music player built around your taste.

Download homecrate — Free

// iOS only  ·  no account  ·  your library stays on your device