For iPhone and iPad · iOS 18.0 or later
Play FLAC, MP3, ALAC, AAC, Opus, WAV and more on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Import by Wi-Fi, AirDrop, Files, another app or your NAS. Your library stays under your control, works without a signal and never requires a bMusic account.
Core features
The essentials are straightforward: get files onto the device, keep the library organized, and play them the way you expect.
Importing
Open a page on your computer, read the code off the phone with the camera, and drag files into the browser — nothing to install on the computer. Or use AirDrop, the Files app, Finder file sharing, another app’s share sheet, or a direct link.
Your library
Albums, artists, songs and genres, plus Recently Added, Recently Played, Most Played and Liked Songs. Pin the shelves you use, hide the ones you do not.
Listening
Gapless playback, an Up Next queue you can reorder, shuffle and repeat by song or by album, and everything the phone already knows how to do — lock screen, Control Center, headphone buttons, AirPlay and Bluetooth.
Yours
Turn on iCloud sync and songs, artwork, playlists and play counts stay in step across your devices — through your account, not ours. Leave it off and the library never leaves the phone.
Advanced features
On-device lyrics, vocal reduction, pitch control, A–B looping, two-way Wi-Fi transfer, tag editing and more — built around files you own.
Ask for lyrics and bMusic listens to the song and writes them out line by line, with the timing, using a speech model that runs on the device. The audio never leaves it. Correct any line by hand, or bring an .lrc you already have — bMusic reads those and the lyrics stored inside the tags too.
A ten-band equaliser with a correction curve for your own headphones, a karaoke mode that pulls the voice out of the middle of the mix without hollowing out the bass, ±6 semitones that leave the tempo alone, an A–B loop, half to double speed, and a sing-along recording kept in time with the backing track.
Open a page on the computer, point the phone’s camera at the code, and the browser is talking to the phone. It works in both directions — send an album across, or download one back — and it streams, so a 600 MB lossless record never has to fit in memory.
Songs, playlists, tags, likes, play counts, listening history, lyrics and equaliser curves stay in step through your own private iCloud database. There is no bMusic library server. Each device decides how much of the library it keeps on board, and the rest is one tap from playing.
An edit is written back into the file itself — ID3 frames left intact, FLAC comment blocks replaced byte for byte. Fill blank fields from a lookup, name a song by letting the phone listen to it, trim on a waveform, split a long recording by its track list, or merge a box set that arrived as two albums.
One library across a real iPad sidebar, a native Mac window with a floating desktop lyrics panel, and CarPlay with your own albums, tags and playlists. Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, a Home Screen widget and Last.fm scrobbling that survives a flight.
Why bMusic
bMusic is for music you already own. Keep the original files, play them without a connection, and move them back out whenever you want.
Songs, artwork, playlists and play counts are stored in bMusic’s own folder on the phone. Turn the phone to aeroplane mode and nothing changes.
A FLAC stays a FLAC. There is no import step that re-encodes your library into something smaller on the way in.
No account, no e-mail address, no library sitting on a server. Your songs, your artwork and your lyrics never leave the device at all.
Privacy
bMusic has no user account and no cloud library of its own. Your audio stays on your devices unless you explicitly use an optional service such as your own iCloud sync or Last.fm.
The full policy is on the publisher’s site.
Compared
Three shapes this category comes in, and what each one costs you in practice. No names — these are the patterns, not one particular app.
| What you get | bMusic | A streaming subscription | A free player with ads | A cloud-drive player |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plays music you own, with no signal at all | Yes | No | Yes | Partly |
| Lossless FLAC and ALAC, tags and cover art included | Yes | No | Partly | Yes |
| No advertising anywhere in the app | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Nothing to sign up for | Yes | No | Partly | No |
| Writes a song’s words down on the device, from the audio | Yes | No | No | No |
| Reads .lrc files and the lyrics stored in your tags | Yes | No | Partly | Partly |
| Ten-band equaliser with a correction curve per headphone | Yes | Partly | No | Partly |
| Karaoke: takes the voice out, and moves the key | Yes | No | No | No |
| A–B loop and 0.5–2× speed for learning a part | Yes | No | Partly | Partly |
| Wi-Fi transfer both ways, nothing installed on the computer | Yes | No | Partly | Partly |
| Syncs through your own cloud account rather than ours | Yes | No | No | No |
| iPhone, iPad, Mac and CarPlay from one library | Yes | Yes | No | Partly |
Every row is something bMusic does. Where bMusic is the one missing something another kind of app offers, that belongs in its issue tracker rather than in a table it wrote about itself.
Formats
Tags and cover art are read from every one of these, FLAC included — the thing most iPhone players quietly skip.
Guides
Nobody goes looking for a local music player at random. Each of these is one of the moments people do.
The iPhone decodes FLAC and always has. Getting a FLAC file onto it is the part Apple never made easy.
Read the guideSwitch to iOS moves your photos and messages. The folder of music files is the part it leaves behind.
Read the guideYou ripped it losslessly on purpose. Getting it onto the phone should not undo that.
Read the guideThe album is greyed out and the playlist has a hole in it. Owning the file is the only fix that lasts.
Read the guideA tunnel, a data cap or a rural road, and the streaming app stalls. Files on the phone never do.
Read the guideLyrics apps look a song up in a catalogue. The rip, the bootleg and the demo are not in it — so the words have to come from the recording.
Read the guideTake the voice out, move the key, loop the bar you keep missing and slow it down — on a song you own, on the phone.
Read the guideFAQ
Every part of bMusic works for 15 days from the day you install it, with nothing held back. Send one album across and hear it on your own headphones.
iPhone, iPad and Mac · iOS 18.0 or later · MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, OPUS, WAV, AIFF