Grouch

Grouch is a simple, focused music player for people who own their music, and who want it on all their devices and always available offline. FEATURES • Sync • Playlists • Siri and CarPlay • Edit metadata and artwork • Queue: play now, next, or later • Sort by title, artist, album, duration, and more • AAC, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, OPUS, WAV NON-FEATURES • Repeat • Crossfade • An equalizer • Loudness normalization • In-app volume and AirPlay controls HOW SYNC WORKS Your music is copied into Grouch upon import. Grouch then syncs your music metadata and playlists to iCloud. But your music itself is synced directly between your devices, over your local network. Sync works this way so it’s fast, and so your music doesn’t use your iCloud storage. GROUCH MAY NOT BE FOR YOU If you need to choose what’s synced. Grouch syncs everything you import to every device on which it’s installed. You need to have enough disk space on every device, or you’ll only be able to import some of your music. If you don’t have an iPhone and a Mac you want synced. Grouch is priced the way it is, as a universal purchase, because sync is its raison d’être. So I’m assuming you have at least an iPhone and a Mac you want to use with it. If you don’t want to grant Local Network access. Grouch syncs your music device to device, which requires Local Network access. You can refuse Local Network access on a device and still use Grouch. But sync will be disabled for that device. PRIVACY Grouch does not collect your data. It does transmit your music metadata and playlists to your iCloud account, and it transmits your music itself over your local network. Your data is encrypted in transit. End-to-end encryption, additionally, is supported for the data stored in your iCloud account if you have Advanced Data Protection enabled.