# Harken Lite Offline Music — Offline and cloud music player

> Offline music player for organizing and rediscovering your digital music library. (iPhone/iPad app by Ben Thomas.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/harken-lite-offline-music/id1139609293 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ben Thomas](https://appshunter.io/developer/492594056)
- Category: Music, Music, Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.82/5 from 11 App Store ratings · 7 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2017-05-21
- Data updated: 2026-07-04
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/harken-lite-offline-music/id1139609293/reviews.md

## What is Harken Lite Offline Music?

At its heart, Harken has been designed to make it as simple and quick as possible for you to start listening to music in your music collection. Music must be purchased with the Apple Music app or synched from Apple Music first.

Quickly find music by typing any part of the album title or album artist.

Rediscover your music collection by sorting by play count, date last played, or rating.

Listen to your music in random order by shuffling songs, or shuffle the order that albums are played - can be changed in settings.

Harken Lite Music Player, in addition to letting you view your music library by Album, also lets you trial all the features of the paid version of Harken For iPhone for 7 days: 
- view your library by Artist, Compilations, Composers, Genres, Playlists, Podcasts and Songs;
- create playlists from any media type
- when the trial is over, you can continue choosing music by album

Customize Harken to your heart's content with options for colour theme and font, show or hide iTunes Match (cloud) items, and toggle between full-screen or unclipped cover art in the Now Playing mode. Have an iPhone 7, 8 or X, but don't like haptic feedback? That can be disabled too.

Have some feedback? Go to the settings and hit the feedback button.

If you like Harken Lite, please leave a review or tell your friends on social media. It really helps independent developers like me.

*Sync with iTunes or buy music in the iTunes app to download music to your phone first.

## Key features

- Offline music playback
- Quick music search
- Sort by play count, date, or rating
- Shuffle songs or albums
- Playlist creation
- Customizable themes and fonts

## Recent user reviews (7 of 7)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/harken-lite-offline-music/id1139609293/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Joke

*2022-07-26*

Cannot see or play any of my music at all from my library 🤓

### 1/5 — Not easy

*2021-05-15*

This is not an intuitive app at all. It looks like it is, but it’s not. Want it to automatically play the next song? Maybe it will, maybe it will repeat the same song over and over. Good luck figuring out why. 

One of the features that I was looking forward to was “Least Played,” because I like all of my songs, and anything random always replays a random song before it plays others at all. This feature does the exact same thing, repeating songs I’ve already heard and leaving others unplaced at all. 

Want to pick up where you left off? Maybe... maybe not...

I can’t see that this is much better, and certainly not less frustrating than the Apple app. Ugh.

### 3/5 — Would have been perfect, but...

*2020-06-19*

I downloaded this because I just want a music app that is focused on the library. I don’t need the Apple Music search features the default ios app has. I just want to listen to the songs on my own library. And I don’t understand why something as simple as sorting by song is a premium feature. That should be the default, not albums. I want to choose a specific song to listen to. I guess I need to look elsewhere for a simple, library-only music player :/

### 5/5 — Radija Radija

*2019-11-26*

Radija

### 5/5 — Thanks for finding an old favourite

*2019-01-09, version 1.4.1*

I like the way it’s geared towards album listening. Being a bit older, it was all about CD albums for me, rather than tracks. 
Anyway, being able to sort to bring the least recently played to the top rediscovered an old favourite. The CD lived in my car for a year until it went missing when the stereo was nicked from my car. 

Love it. Thanks.

### 5/5 — Best local music player there is!

*2018-06-04*

For playing your devices music, this app can't be beat.  Beautiful GUI, easy navigation , only the necessary features all a few taps away.

Ben, the developer, is open and receptive to feedback and will reply personally to bug reports and feature suggestions.  I was happy to hear that two bugs I submitted to him are patched in an update set to hopefully release soon.

Looking forward to seeing this app grow!

### 4/5 — Really nice !!!

*2017-12-30, version 1.2.0*

Really nice and organised music app, love the way the album starts playing as soon as you select it. Only problem is that I am yet to find how to shuffle just songs and not albums.

## Frequently asked questions about Harken Lite Offline Music

### How do I get music into Harken Lite?

Music must be purchased through the Apple Music app or synced from Apple Music to your device first. Harken Lite then accesses this local library for playback.

### What devices does Harken Lite support?

Harken Lite is available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices, allowing you to enjoy your music across your Apple ecosystem.

### Does Harken Lite have ads?

No, Harken Lite is ad-free, providing an uninterrupted listening experience without advertisements.

### What is the age rating for Harken Lite?

Harken Lite has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users to manage their music.

### How often is Harken Lite updated?

The latest version, 5.0.0, was last updated on January 10, 2025, indicating active development and support for the application.

### Can I create playlists in Harken Lite?

Yes, Harken Lite allows you to create playlists from any media type within your music library, offering flexible organization.

### What are the customization options in Harken Lite?

You can customize Harken Lite with color themes, font choices, and options to show or hide cloud items, as well as disable haptic feedback.

### What is the user rating for Harken Lite?

Harken Lite has an average rating of 3.8 stars based on 11 ratings, reflecting user satisfaction with its features.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.0.0 — 2025-01-10

This is a huge update with lots of small UI changes that should make Harken easier and more pleasurable to use, but the biggest change is that Harken now fully supports iPad too.

1. Refreshed the UI with more space for albums
2. New library mode menu
3. New sorting menu
4. Sort library by year
5. View the year that the song was released on the Now Playing screen
6. When sorting by anything other than A-Z, see the sort metadata on every album
7. Accessible font sizes on Now Playing screen
8. Did I mention it now supports iPad too? :)

### 1.7.2 — 2023-04-30

I've fixed a couple of crashes.

If you have any feedback, please go to the Settings screen in the app and press "Email your feedback".

And if you have time to leave a review on the AppStore, I would really appreciate it, because it really helps other people decide if they should download the app.

### 1.7.1 — 2022-03-02

Fixed some bugs:
- the track listing would show the wrong tracks when the Now Playing screen was first displayed
- the wrong track info would be displayed when shuffling from the library screen

Improvements:
- added support for dynamic fonts on the Now Playing screen

### 1.7.0 — 2020-11-26

Re-enabled the ability for you to choose the user interface theme independently.

### 1.6.1 — 2020-10-30

Press and hold on an album, or the shuffle artist button, in your library to see the track listing and start playback from a specific track.

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