NowPlaying: Music Discovery

Music, made more fun. Find records you'd never have run into on your own, then learn everything about them. Who played bass, where it was recorded, what it samples.

Featured on TechCrunch, MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, DailyTekk, BGR, and more.

● Who it's for
Anyone who wants to hear more new music, and know more about the music they already love.

• Anyone hunting for their next favourite album, not another playlist
• People who want a new record to try every day
• Everyone who hears a great song and needs to know more, right now
• Crate diggers and collectors who read every sleeve
• Apple Music and Last.fm fans who keep track of what they play
• Vinyl fans who want a proper display for the record that's spinning

● See more of your music
SongDisplay turns your iPhone or iPad into a display for whatever's playing. Artwork, facts, and the story behind the song, updating as the music changes. Prop it up next to the turntable and let it run.

• Album art or artist art, full screen
• Kiosk Mode hides the buttons so only the music shows
• Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
• Send it to a TV or monitor over AirPlay
• Every session saved, so you can find that one song again
• Read great insights about the song that’s playing

● Skip the algorithm
A new Album of the Day, picked for the genres you actually listen to. Swipe through Album Discovery to find records nothing else would serve you, drawn from the Rolling Stone 500, 1001 Albums, the Apple Music Top 100, new releases, and your own library. Read Pitchfork reviews and Bandcamp Daily picks in the same place, plus music books worth reading. Come back tomorrow for the next one.

● Know the whole story
Liner notes, verified facts, band members, samples and the songs they came from, awards, recording locations on a map, photography, set lists from the tour, and full lyrics. Translate any of it into your language, or let Song Story read it aloud.

● Find any song
Catch what's playing around you with Shazam. Scan the barcode on a CD or record. Photograph an album cover to identify it. Point Visual Intelligence at a sleeve. Or search all of Apple Music.

● Keep it all together
Save songs to Favourites and to your Apple Music library or a playlist. Scrobble to Last.fm. Add records to Discogs and songs to MusicThread. See your rated albums, On Repeat, and Heavy Rotation in one place. Build your Best of the year list and share it as an image.

Open anything in Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, or Pandora.

● Everywhere you listen
Five Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls for listening, playing today's album, and scanning, plus Siri Shortcuts and Handoff between devices. NowPlaying also runs on Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, in the same download.

● NowPlaying Gold
No ads, Last.fm scrobbling, your full search and SongDisplay history, extra details like awards and band members, Kiosk Mode, and app icons you unlock by listening