Introducing Songpocket 2
Songpocket 2 is an immersive viewer for your Apple Music library.
It has two key features:
Crates, which let you freely arrange your library
Tangible albums, which make albums feel physical
With these features together, browsing your music feels stunningly intimate. It’s personal and focused. Here’s why.
1. Crates
Most music apps offer separate sections for Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, and so on. Songpocket has only one browsing mode: Crates.
Crates are simple, freely editable boxes for your albums. They let you…
- Rename them
- Reorder them
- Move albums between them
- Reorder albums within them
So you can see your…
- Pop by artist, and
- Classical by composer, and
- Soundtracks by franchise, and
- Childhood favorites grouped intuitively
…all without switching modes. It’s simple yet powerful.
Besides, you can freely arrange reminders and bookmarks, so why not music? You’ll wonder how you lived without it.
2. Tangible albums
Most music apps show album info in multiple places. Songpocket 2 shows each album’s artwork, title, and artist in exactly one place.
This sounds insignificant, but feels profound.
In most apps, albums are abstract: rows and screens show album info, but they don’t feel like the album itself.
But in Songpocket 2, albums feel physical:
- Tapping one feels like revealing the back cover.
- Adding one feels like inserting an actual record, not merely adding a row to a list.
- Deleting one feels like destroying that copy of the record.
It’s immersive. You’ll feel like you’re actually touching your albums again.
Why I care
I just wanna get cozy with my music.
Artwork is already sadly tiny on phones, but worse, our UIs distract us rampantly—browsing modes! filters! settings!—when I really want to touch and admire my collection.
I develop Songpocket to let myself do that. You might like it too.
(See also: Songpocket 2 design: right info, right places)