# homecrate - Player & Studio — Your library. Your studio. > Music player and production studio with advanced playback and creation tools. (iPhone/iPad app by anthony burchell.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/homecrate-player-and-studio/id6759652629 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [anthony burchell](https://appshunter.io/developer/1466553433) - Category: Music, Entertainment - Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $9.99) - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 118 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-08 - Data updated: 2026-09-01 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/homecrate-player-and-studio/id6759652629/reviews.md ## What is homecrate? Learn the song. Tune up. Record it. Perform it. Film it. One app. Split any song into stems on your device, unlimited and offline. Play through a real NAM amp. Record 16 tracks. Run your desktop VST3 plugins from your Mac. Pro is $9.99, once. YOUR MUSIC. YOUR RULES. A player and a studio for people who have opinions about music. Not a streaming service. Not an algorithm watching you. Everything runs on your device. FREE, IN FULL A working 4-track studio with a master bus. A real amp with 10 NAM A2 profiles. Drum machine, synth, vocal chain, dynamic EQ with sidechain. Piano roll, step sequencer, automation lanes. MIDI hardware routing and clock sync. Timeline editing with split, crossfades and warp markers. Mixdown and share. A tuner with 50+ tunings, and a metronome. Your lossless library with synced lyrics and liner notes. No trial, no timer, no account. LEARN IT Stem Separation (Pro): Split any song into vocals, drums, bass, guitar and more, entirely on your device. No cloud, no account, no limits. Stems land on tracks ready to play along. Mute the guitar and take its place. Audio to MIDI (Pro): On-device pitch detection turns any clip into notes. Sing the melody, get the part. TUNE IT Tuner: Over 50 established tunings, free. Standards, drops, opens, modal, bass, lap steel and pedal steel. Instrument-aware string sets for 6/7/8-string guitar, 4/5-string bass, 6/8/10-string lap steel, E9/C6 pedal steel. The steel library is validated against John Ely's tunings list and the Papa Dafoe database. PLAY IT Guitar Amp: Neural Amp Modeler with dual profile morphing mapped to your playing dynamics. 10 profiles free; load any .nam or .wav IR with Pro. Synthesizer: Dual-oscillator synth. MPE, microtonal tuning, 6-voice unison. Drum Machine: 16-pad sampler with a multi-bar step sequencer. Vocal Chain: Pitch correction, compression, doubling, de-esser, delay, reverb. Dynamic EQ: Dynamic EQ and compressor with true cross-track sidechaining. Grain: Grain delay and reverb built to be played, not just poured over things. VST3 + AU Hosting (Pro): Run real desktop plugins in your project. A free Mac companion hosts the plugin; homecrate streams audio, MIDI and tempo both ways. Every parameter becomes an automatable lane. Mac required. AUv3 Host (Pro): 4 insert slots per track. Chord, arpeggiator and sequencer plugins drive your tracks, splittable across channels. RECORD IT 16 audio and 8 MIDI tracks with a master bus. Warp markers for timing correction. Slicing, crossfades, pinch-to-zoom timeline, automation with shape presets. Voice control and Music Chat for theory-informed MIDI. Live looper. Collaborative sessions where a bandmate's take lands clock-aligned on your timeline. PERFORM IT Visual Stream (Pro): Send your camera and effects to a projector through the Mac companion. More than one phone can stream at once. Gesture Control (Pro): Hand poses seen by the front camera become MIDI. Twist your hand to ride a filter without touching the screen. MIDI Rig Switching (Pro): Assign layer visibility and effect presets to your pedalboard. One pad flips the whole scene. FILM IT Video Capture (Pro): Film the take with your backing track in the mix. 70+ real-time GPU effects that stack as layers and react to what you play. Preserve Me and Preserve Instrument shields keep you and your guitar untouched while everything else burns. Custom Shader runs your own ISF or Shadertoy code. Media Overlay adds photo and video layers. Section markers switch the look at the chorus. KEEP IT Time your lyrics line by line and they travel into your library as synced lyrics. Spatial audio with a 3D mixer and APAC export on iOS 26. Mixdown to your library or share a whole project as one file. Plex sync. PRO IS $9.99. ONCE. Everything marked Pro above, plus tracks 5 to 16, preset saving everywhere, and custom NAM profiles and IRs. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription. No renewal. No account. ## Key features - Algorithm-tuned shuffle - Synced lyrics and liner notes - 8+8 track DAW - Synthesizer and drum machine - Guitar amp simulator - AUv3 plugin hosting - MIDI I/O and sync ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | homecrate - Pro | $9.99 | one-time | ## Frequently asked questions about homecrate ### What is homecrate? homecrate is a music player and production studio designed for users who want control over their music listening and creation experience. It focuses on local library playback and offers a comprehensive mobile DAW. ### Does homecrate have ads? No, homecrate is ad-free, allowing for an uninterrupted music listening and creation experience. ### What are the Pro features in homecrate? Pro features include Spatial Audio, the full 8+8 track homecrate Studio DAW, a synthesizer, drum machine, guitar amp, AUv3 host, advanced MIDI I/O, AI Voice & Chat, and Video Capture. ### Can I use third-party plugins with homecrate? Yes, homecrate acts as an AUv3 Host, allowing you to load up to 4 insert slots per track with any third-party instrument, effect, or MIDI processor. ### How does homecrate's music player differ from streaming services? homecrate is a local library player, not a streaming service. Its Algorithm Tuner allows you to set your own taste profile, influencing the shuffle based on your preferences rather than observed habits. ### What music creation tools are included in homecrate? It features an 8+8 track DAW, a dual-oscillator subtractive synthesizer with MPE and microtonal tuning, a 16-pad drum machine sampler, and a guitar amp simulator with IR cabinet loading. ### What devices is homecrate available on? homecrate is available on iPhone and iPad, supporting iOS devices. ### How often is homecrate updated? The latest version is 1.9, and it was last updated on June 22, 2026, indicating a recent and active development cycle. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.15 — 2026-08-28 New in 1.15: stream your visuals to a projector, MIDI plugins that play your tracks, and a tuning library with 50+ tunings including pedal steel, lap steel, and bass. Free. VISUAL STREAM Send your camera and effects to a big screen. Tap the wifi button, scan a QR code, and the fully effected render lands in a Visuals window on your Mac: fullscreen for projectors, with rotate, mirror, fit/fill, zoom, and pan. What you see is what they see, edge to edge. More than one phone can stream at once, each getting its own tile sized to its shape. Performer mode folds the UI away and suspends on-device preview, so the phone runs cooler while the companion carries the show. Needs the free Companion App. AUv3 MIDI GENERATORS Chord, arpeggiator, and sequencer plugins now play your tracks. A generator on one track can drive the instrument on another. Split one plugin across several tracks by channel: bass on 1, keys on 2, pads on 3, each with its own instrument, effects, fader, and pan. This used to mean running a second host app. Generated MIDI can leave the app to your hardware too, and you can send MIDI into a plugin and chain them. Arm a track and record what the plugin plays as an ordinary editable clip. TUNER: PRESETS, BASS, AND STEEL Over 50 established tunings, free for everyone. Standards, drops, opens, modal, lap steel, pedal steel, bass, and an Artist section. Tunings know their instrument: Guitar 6/7/8, Bass 4/5, Lap steel 6/8/10, Pedal steel E9/C6. Bass players can finally tune their low strings. Detection now tracks past a 5-string's low B. The steel library is validated against John Ely's tunings master list and the Papa Dafoe database: Jerry Byrd's C6/A7 and B11, Don Helms and Jules Ah See B11s, Junior Brown's C13, Darick Campbell's sacred steel E6, Sol Hoopii's C#m7, and the 12-string E9/B6 Universal. DAW MIRROR A new video layer that captures the device's actual screen and composites it into your video chain: plugin editors, modals, overlays, all of it. Record tutorials on device with no desktop. Screen recording only starts when you tap Grant Screen Capture, and the grant holds for the session. MIDI RIG SWITCHING Every effect layer has an eye to show or hide it. Long-press an eye to assign a MIDI control to that layer's visibility, or long-press any preset to assign a control that recalls it. One pad can hold several assignments and fire them together, so your pedalboard drives complete scene flips mid-performance. DUAL CAMERA AND CANVAS Effects now compose over the combined front-and-back frame. Shaders, shields, the stream, and the recording all treat the two-camera stack as one canvas. The visible crop of your preview is now the absolute edge of that canvas in every mode, so CRT bezels and vignettes hug the visible frame instead of a hidden sensor edge. Fixed the rear camera rendering upside down, a crash enabling dual cam with effects on, and a freeze turning it back off. PERFORMANCE The amp's fast path now applies to amps restored from a saved session, not just freshly added ones. The idle gate recognizes high-gain captures whose modeled noise never goes fully silent, so they stop processing when you stop playing. Screen capture was rebuilt to stay off the CPU, fixing device heating with DAW Mirror active. FIXES Monitoring no longer goes silent when arming a track then starting playback. MIDI recording no longer drops notes when a part repeats the same pitch with overlapping gates. Silenced tracks no longer return at full volume when starting a Screen+Cam or camera recording, and Screen+Cam mic capture is a setting now instead of permanently on. Fixed Drafts getting reordered when opened. Fixed a crash pasting certain published ISF shaders. Camera rotation fixes on iPad. ### 1.14 — 2026-08-21 New in 1.14! Lyrics & Notes - Time your lyrics line by line. Type a time on the new Timing tab, or put your cursor on a line and tap the mark button to stamp it at the playhead. A badge shows how many lines are timed. - A live preview strip at the top of the panel follows the song as it plays and highlights the current line, so you can dial in timings by ear without leaving the panel. - Lyrics travel with your exports. Mixdowns sent to your library now carry lyrics in the track metadata. Timed lines show up as synced lyrics in the player, and untimed lyrics come along as plain text. - New Lyrics video effect overlays your timed lyrics on camera takes in real time. - Fixed the lyrics panel getting stuck behind the transport bar after a drag. MIDI Clip Editor - New tool rail: Move, Erase, and Length. Move is the default and covers the whole loop: double tap an empty cell to add a note, double tap a note to delete it, and drag a note to move it in time and pitch. Erase clears notes with a single tap. Length lets you drag notes longer or shorter. - Note input is a double tap now, so stray touches while you scroll no longer drop notes on the grid. - New Randomize button re-rolls the whole part. Melodies follow your project key, and you can lean the results toward what your song is actually playing. - Edit actions now carry clear labels: Reverse, Invert, Quantize, and octave up and down shifts. - Every piano roll row is labeled, with the C notes standing out, so you can find your place without counting keys. - In the drum grid, the Length tool shows each hit's real gate length so you can see and stretch how long a pad rings out. Video Effects - Effect settings are reorganized into a sidebar of your added effects and a full height settings area. No more scrolling past every card to reach the one you want. - New randomize button in the FX drawer rolls a fresh look for you. - The effect library is now a scrollable list with order badges and aligned titles, matching the layers sidebar. - Preview an effect with the eye button before you commit to adding it. - New color splash effect for defining a single color to preserve while turning the rest background black and white (isolate your guitar in color!) - New Custom Shader effect: paste ISF or Shadertoy code and run it as a live video effect. The shader's own inputs show up automatically as sliders and controls, and compile errors appear right in the drawer so you can fix your code and retry. Media Overlay video effect - New Media Overlay effect lets you add unlimited photo or video layers. Videos loop muted. Each layer has its own file, alignment, offset, scale, and rotation. - New Media target confines any effect to the area covered by your media layers. - Media picks are saved with presets and your rig. New Effects - Eight new video effects: Halation, Tie-Dye, Film Burn, 16mm Reel, Liquid Light, Pixel Sort, JPEG Crush, and NTSC Composite. All of them are wired into the randomizer. Presets and Song Structure - Section markers can now trigger a video effect preset change. The look switches as playback crosses each marker, both in preview and in the recorded video. - Applying a preset makes it the active one, and a new save icon in the drawer header lets you save over it. Factory presets save a copy to your own list. - Fixed section marker lines blocking timeline touch. Only the label tab opens the editor now. - Long pressing on the save button will open a modal to "save as new" or "save as template" Song Take Capture - New third camera record mode: video keeps rolling while the recorder handles the audio. When you stop, the final mixdown, including any fresh take, is combined into the video. Playback & Monitoring - Fixed instrument tracks jumping to full volume when moving the playhead during playback. Performance - Fixed idle heat. The amp and grain plugins now settle down better when nothing is playing. ### 1.13 — 2026-08-08 New in 1.13: real VST3 plugin host, new Grain AUv3, gesture-to-MIDI control, 60+ video effects, and transient-based time-stretching and editing, and the interface has a fresh coat of paint. PLUGINS HC Grain (grain delay/reverb/texturizer): -Always-listening capture: play first, then CATCH the moment you liked as a loop — no record-arm -FREEZE holds a chord forever while you play over it (footswitch-friendly) -Grain cloud with size, density, spray, pitch quantize, and reverse -Routable delay, modulated reverb, and a resonator that rings along in your key -MIDI play mode: freeze a chord and play it like a keyboard -Load your own audio files as the grain source -11 factory presets, three free, the rest with Pro HC Gesture (new): track your fingers with the camera and assign MIDI messages to gestures/actions (palm, fist, pinch index, pinch middle + rotate, etc). Control your synth with your hands and never touch your device. hc vstpipe (new): a bridge plugin that streams audio and MIDI to and from VST instruments on your desktop, wirelessly. Pair it with the new companion app; see the VST3 section of the homecrate website for setup. The companion app can also send audio clips straight to your project timeline: copy a clip on desktop, paste it into your song on mobile. Homecrate Vocal AUv3 refines the new lofi effect section. CAMERA & VIDEO Camera recorder now has 60+ real-time video effects with body occlusion, face pixelation for privacy, and blend modes. Any parameter can be driven by your final mix for audio-reactive video. A new headstock-hiding filter keeps a stinky headstock with F words blurred. EDITING & TIME-STRETCH Transients in a clip can now be pulled to adjust timing dynamically with the time-stretch tool. Long-press on clips or the timeline opens an action menu for duplicate, copy, split, reverse, and more. New Bake Clip button renders a split clip down to its own file. Audio clip editing gets dedicated undo/redo, pinch-to-zoom, and solo/mix preview buttons. Loop points are now saved per project. Per-project theme settings let you customize the recorder's UI colors to match the mood of your song. Clips are also now selectable in the recorder view which allows you context to ask the assistant "insert silence" "duplicate this" "split this" and many more actions. 9 new tool calls total (`analyzeSongKey`, `setProjectKey`, `setTrackSolo`, `setClipGain`, `setClipFades`, `duplicateClip`, `duplicateMidiClip`, `reverseClip`, `convertClipToMidi`) FIXES & PERFORMANCE Fixed issue where cpu mode for older devices failed stem separation. Stem separation now running on A14 chips and newer. Fixed issue where frequent pause and play actions can freeze the ui Fixed a large batch of memory consuming processes. The UI went from being multiple times heavier than audio processing, to now making audio processing the heaviest tasks. A 76% reduction in UI related load. ### 1.12 — 2026-08-03 New in 1.12: real VST3 plugins, gesture-to-MIDI control, 50+ video effects, and transient-based time-stretching and editing, and the interface has a fresh coat of paint. PLUGINS HC Gesture (new): track your fingers with the camera and assign MIDI messages to gestures/actions (palm, fist, pinch index, pinch middle + rotate, etc). Control your synth with your hands and never touch your device. hc vstpipe (new): a bridge plugin that streams audio and MIDI to and from VST instruments on your desktop, wirelessly. Pair it with the new companion app; see the VST3 section of the homecrate website for setup. The companion app can also send audio clips straight to your project timeline: copy a clip on desktop, paste it into your song on mobile. Homecrate Vocal AUv3 adds a new lofi effect section. CAMERA & VIDEO Camera recorder now has 50+ real-time video effects (Glitch, CRT Monitor, ASCII Art, Blob Tracker, VHS Tape, Super 8, Dream Haze, Glitter, Star Field, Shape Scatter, Scribble, Depth spectral visualizer, and more), with body occlusion, face pixelation for privacy, and blend modes. Any parameter can be driven by your final mix for audio-reactive video. A new headstock-hiding filter keeps a stinky headstock with F words blurred. MIDI & AUTOMATION MIDI clip editor gains invert, reverse, octave up/down, and a CC editor. Improved automation curve preset shapes. MIDI note lengths can be dragged and adjusted. MIDI clips sending to hardware are more reliable, fixing an issue where notes were occasionally missed. HC Amp, Drum, Dynamic EQ, Synth, and Vocal now expose CC values for common parameters. EDITING & TIME-STRETCH Transients in a clip can now be pulled to adjust timing dynamically with the time-stretch tool. Long-press on clips or the timeline opens an action menu for duplicate, copy, split, reverse, and more. New Bake Clip button renders a split clip down to its own file. Audio clip editing gets dedicated undo/redo, pinch-to-zoom, and solo/mix preview buttons. Loop points are now saved per project. Per-project theme settings let you customize the recorder's UI colors to match the mood of your song. Clips are also now selectable in the recorder view which allows you context to ask the assistant "insert silence" "duplicate this" "split this" and many more actions. 9 new tool calls total (`analyzeSongKey`, `setProjectKey`, `setTrackSolo`, `setClipGain`, `setClipFades`, `duplicateClip`, `duplicateMidiClip`, `reverseClip`, `convertClipToMidi`) FIXES & PERFORMANCE Exports are much much faster (seconds instead of minutes now) On-device stem separation no longer crashes in some cases. Fixed mixdown bounce playing back through speakers during the bounce. Fixed looper overdub issues in loop mode on the timeline. homecrate amp corrects phase when blending dual A2 NAM morph mode. Audio to MIDI accuracy improvements. ### 1.11 — 2026-07-18 New in 1.11! This is the biggest update yet headlined by features most apps lock behind cloud subscriptions and monthly credits. On homecrate they run entirely on your device: unlimited, offline, no account. STEM SEPARATION ON-DEVICE, UNLIMITED - Split any song into stems, right on your iOS device. Choose the GPU engine (dramatically faster on modern devices) or CPU, and 4-stem or 6-stem (with dedicated guitar) models. Stems land aligned on tracks, ready to go. Mute the guitar, play the part through the homecrate amp, hit record. Learn any song this way, as many times as you want, no upload, no credits. AUDIO TO MIDI - Convert any audio clip to MIDI straight from the clip editor, on-device pitch detection, great for vocals and isolated instrument parts. Sing the melody, get the notes. THREE NEW PLUGINS - homecrate vocal: pitch correction, compression, doubling, de-esser, and reverb in one AUv3 - homecrate dynEQ: dynamic EQ and compressor with sidechaining - homecrate send: put it on any track to drive the dynEQ from that signal for classic ducking and pumping effects HC_AMP CHANGES - Dual NAM or IR mode with input dynamics mapped to mix. Choose which pair to have playing dynamics like volume or frequency impact. It feels incredible being able to map your intensity to different amps. Highly recommend trying this. HC_DRUM CHANGES - Copy/paste clips from timeline to the drum AUv3 - New pad sample editing panel for homecrate drum EDITING - Time-stretch audio clips (pitch-preserving) honored everywhere, from playback to spatial export - Slice clips at the playhead audio and MIDI, fully undoable - Crossfade clips into each other - Pinch to zoom the timeline - Automation shape presets (linear, exponential, s-curve, swell and more) with range sliders plus start/end offset controls to refine the curve - MIDI clips can now send AUv3 parameter automation to instruments - New 3D view for the spatial editor SHARE PROJECTS - Export a whole project as a single file and import projects from friends tracks, clips, and plugin settings included. ALSO - Horizontal third-party AUv3s can now fill the plugin view sideways with a new rotate toggle - Fixed homecrate synth filter parameters to correctly track knob values. if cutoffs felt off, that's why - Fixed issue with large MIDI clips causing the recorder to crash - Fixes resampling plugin crashes ## More apps by anthony burchell - [Broken Place AR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/broken-place-ar/id1466553434) All apps by anthony burchell: https://appshunter.io/developer/1466553433 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*