Sonarch

macOS 15+ · iOS 18+ · Apple Silicon

A deep, carefully made music player for the library you already own: local folders, cloud storage, your Bandcamp collection and your own servers, on Mac and iPhone.

The library, whatever it was built from.
The albums wall, narrowed to what you feel like.
Any moment inside a track, saved and returned to.

The albums wall, in your pocket.
Saved moments, waiting to be carried on.
Playing, and where it came from.

FLAC
ALAC
WAV
AIFF
MP3
AAC
OGG

Free

The foundation

Free, and not a trial.

Everything the paid tiers are built on top of. None of it is counted, watermarked or made read-only.

One track, however many copies

A track you have as FLAC and again as MP3, sitting in different places, is one "meta" track in your library.

One row, every format and every place that track lives.

Browse views that follow their filter rules

Every library view can be restricted to the locations you choose. A browse view takes rules as well, composed on the Mac in its own filter engine. Each view is live and persistent.

The locations and the rules behind a browse view.

What you played, and when

History keeps every play with the time it happened, counts a track that came round more than once, and leaves skips out until you ask for them. Each row remembers the view it was played from, so it can be played again or opened where it came from.

An afternoon's listening, and where each play came from.

⌘D, and it is playing elsewheremacOS

Mid-track, from wherever you are, and back to what you were doing — never a trip into Settings. The list is the outputs you marked as worth offering rather than everything the Mac has ever seen. Each keeps its own settings: whether to run at each track's own sample rate, and — this part is Pro — which pair of outputs to use on an interface with more than two. One that is switched off keeps its row and its choices, so turning it back on puts everything as it was.

Only the outputs you kept, each with its own settings.

Start at a time you setmacOS

Pick a moment, or a wait, and the track you chose starts then. What happens when it ends is yours as well: keep playing the list, stop, or restore what was before — the last of those is Pro.

A start time, and three ways for it to end.

Every format, gapless between them — FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, OGG.
ReplayGain — a library built from many sources plays at one loudness.
High quality resampling — when a track's rate is not the output's, on by default.
An editable playing queue — reorder what is coming, and see where each track came from.
Where you left off, kept per section — a browse, a playlist and the albums wall each hold their own place rather than overwriting one another, and quitting loses none of them. Bookmarks are the moments you save on purpose, anywhere inside a track. With Sync, an album's place crosses to your other devices.
Core tags editing — written into the file when it can be written, and kept by the library when it cannot, where it survives every rescan.
Unlimited folders, and single files from anywhere — including a mounted NAS or network share.
ZIP archives import — drag a download from Bandcamp in and it joins the library.macOS
Scrobbling, from anywhere and offline — Last.fm and ListenBrainz, from the Mac, from the phone in your pocket, from CarPlay on the way home. A play with no network behind it is kept and sent once there is one, so nothing played on a flight or in a tunnel goes missing. Loved tracks are imported, and new ones sent back.
Lyrics — from the tags or from LRCLIB.
Automatic stops — stop after this track, album or artist.
CarPlay, the Lock Screen and Control Centre — artwork, the transport and a working scrubber, through the system player rather than a second interface to learn.iOS
Control the Mac from your iPhone — over the local network.
Twelve languages — and a notification history, so anything said while you were away is still there.

Everything in Free, plus

Pro

Beyond the local disk

A one-time purchase.

Not on sale yetEveryone who joins before 2.0 keeps Pro free, for good.

Your library stops being whatever is on this machine.

Your cloud is just another location

Bandcamp, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, WebDAV, S3 buckets from AWS to Backblaze and Cloudflare, and any Subsonic-compatible server, Navidrome among them. Played by range streaming, so a track starts without downloading it first.

Eight ways in, and after that it is a folder like any other.

Take it offline

Download what you want to keep for when there is no network. What is downloaded is still the same track, in the same library, in the same place.

Decide once what a purchase may keepmacOS

A shop leaves its own marks on what it sells: the tagger's name, the links it was bought through, frames nothing can name. Say which kinds of tag survive an import and every archive after that obeys it. Title, artists, album, numbers and year are never in question.

Sixteen kinds of tag, and which of them you want.

See it before anything is writtenmacOS

Drop an archive in and it says what it holds, where it will land, and what it is about to drop. Dragging a ZIP in is Free; tidying it on the way is what Pro adds — the tag list above, and one cover file for the record instead of the same sleeve inside every track.

The list applied, the covers taken out, and two files it already has.

Mixes — endless mixes of your own music, each track leading to one that sounds like it.
One album, many places — where the same record sits in more than one location the better copy is chosen, and an unreachable one falls back to whichever copy can be served.
Limited connections — on cellular or in Low Data Mode, streaming, downloads, library scans and buffering are each yours to allow or refuse.iOS
Remember locations on the account — adding them on a new device is trivial. Credentials are never part of it.
Custom output channels — send playback to outputs 3/4 of an interface rather than 1/2.macOS

Everything in Pro, plus

Sync

Your own devices, in step

A subscription, Pro included.

In beta, free until 2.0Signing in is all it takes, and there is no card and nothing to cancel. It becomes a subscription at 2.0 — unlike Pro, this one is not kept afterwards.

What you have done and where you were, carried between your devices. All of it works offline and signed out on a single device — the subscription buys the crossing, never the feature.

Stop here, carry on there

Pause on the Mac and carry on from the phone at the same second, in the middle of an album. Every machine's places arrive in one list, each saying which one made it and what it was playing from, and the places you made on the device in your hand keep their own group above them.

Three Macs' places, with the phone's own kept above them.

One listening history

What you played on another device is here, each row naming the machine and what it was playing from, with play counts per device and totalled. One tab narrows the list back to this Mac and another to everywhere but it, and you can carry on from any of it where the track is available.

Three devices in one list, and the tabs that take them apart.

Corrections that travel — a tag you fixed once is fixed everywhere, even where the other device holds that track in a different place or a different format.
Loved tracks — and the statistics behind them.
Date added — so “recently added” means the same thing everywhere.
Playlists, bookmarks and pinned albums — made on one device, there on the others.
Three switches, not one — bookmarks, listening and playlists each travel only if you say so.