A jazz trio is playing in a small room on your phone. Nobody recorded it: every note is written the moment it is played. Leave it on while you work, or fall asleep to it.
Never the same night. Always the same room.
EVERY NIGHT IS A DIFFERENT NIGHT
The room keeps time by the clock: tonight's sets tonight, different ones tomorrow. Some nights one line at the top tells you what is up: rain outside, the owner is in, a new bass player who cannot quite keep up yet. The band plays accordingly.
THE PEOPLE HERE
Nine players, each with things they never do: one never picks up the brushes, one never plays a block chord, one never shows off. Every room also has an owner, a house rule, a regular in the corner and a bit of history.
THIS ROOM HAS AN ACCENT, AND IT IS ONLY YOURS
The chords it reaches for, how it ends a phrase, how often the brushes come out. The bones stay; over the weeks, the band picks up a few new habits.
TWO KINDS OF ROOM
Intimate, with an upright piano and players who hold back; or showier, with a grand piano and players with something to prove. Yours starts as the second; regulars choose.
VISIT A FRIEND'S ROOM
Type in a friend's room number and spend the evening there, hearing the sets they hear tonight. Your own room stays untouched.
LISTEN TOGETHER
On a FaceTime call, start SharePlay: same room, same tune, at the same moment. Only with the people on your call. No account, no server.
THERE IS A WINDOW
Behind the band, a window onto the street: headlights in the rain, snow on some nights, a cinema's red sign across the road. It brightens when the trio opens up.
THEY KEEP PLAYERS' HOURS
A set runs about forty-five minutes, then they step away. The quiet between sets is real, and it is meant to be there.
CLOSING TIME
Tell them when to close: after this set, in half an hour, in two hours. The last set gets quieter tune by tune and ends on the house song, the same every night. Nothing ever fades out.
ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN
The room's name as a neon sign over tonight's window; on iOS 26 and later it moves: rain falling, neon breathing, headlights passing. With a closing time set, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island show who is playing and when the room closes, with a button to stay open.
WITHOUT OPENING THE APP
A Control Center switch for the room and a "last call in 30 min" button. Widgets that play and pause. Ask Siri to set a closing time, or let a Focus such as Sleep set it for you. iPhone and iPad.
WRITTEN HERE, AS IT IS PLAYED
No library of songs, no recordings, no neural model, no training data: a rule-based music-theory engine improvising on this device. No account, nothing collected. It plays on a plane, in a basement.
A ROOM, NOT A PLAYLIST
No progress bar, no track list, no skip button. You cannot ask a piano player for the next song.
The first seven nights are on the house: the whole room, nothing held back. After that there is still a free early set every night, about 23 minutes, ending on the house song. Regulars run a tab — by the year or by the month — or keep a seat with a single payment, and the band plays all night.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
Run a tab — auto-renewing subscription, yearly US$29.99 or monthly US$4.99. Or keep a seat for a one-time US$99, which never renews. All three give the same thing: they play all night, every night. Prices in other regions are shown in the app before you buy.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings.
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