Mobile MA vs PocketAnthem

Mobile MA is an unofficial Music Assistant client. It is independent and not affiliated with, developed, endorsed or reviewed by the Music Assistant project or the Open Home Foundation. Press play – in every room, on every device. Mobile MA is the music player for your home: it brings together your albums, playlists, podcasts, audiobooks and radio stations and plays them wherever you are – on your speakers, your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, Apple Watch or in the car. PLAYBACK THAT'S ACTUALLY FUN • Multiroom done right: group speakers with a tap – and everything plays in sync • Save scenes ("Dinner", "Party everywhere") and start them with one tap – from your Watch, TV and CarPlay too • A queue you fully control: play next, edit – and automatic continued playback when the queue ends • Live lyrics, a party mode for guests, per-player volume limits • Play directly on your device or on any player in the house – switch seamlessly MADE WITH LOVE • An interface that celebrates your music: artwork shapes every view – from albums to a Now Playing with rich color gradients • A spectrum analyzer that dances to your music – full-screen if you like • Full-screen artist artwork, playlist collages, thoughtful details everywhere • Fully native: fluid, fast, with fine-tuned haptics • Make it yours: themes, appearance options and alternative app icons YOUR ENTIRE LIBRARY • Artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, audiobooks, radio and genres – all in one place • Lightning-fast search across your music and your streaming providers • A customizable home screen with Continue Listening, Discover and anniversaries • Smart playlists built on your rules, favorites, radio bookmarks and Listen Later • Audiobooks and podcasts with chapter marks and remembered playback speed SOUND & AUDIO INTELLIGENCE • Audio analysis with loudness leveling for a balanced sound • Tone control with bass, mids and treble plus Smart Fades for seamless transitions • Pro DSP tools for everyone who wants to go deeper • Data-friendly on the go: automatic quality adjustment on cellular AT HOME EVERYWHERE • CarPlay: your library, scenes and Now Playing right on the dashboard • Apple Watch: remote control and scenes on your wrist, with its own complications • Apple TV: a full app with library, search, big-screen Now Playing and Top Shelf – set up conveniently from your iPhone • Mac: a full desktop app including a menu bar player • Widgets, Live Activities, Lock Screen and Siri support SMART & CONVENIENT • Music suggestions your way: privately on device or with your own AI key • Listening history with export, in-app tips for hidden features • In ten languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Czech YOUR SERVER. YOUR DATA. Mobile MA is a native client for Music Assistant, the open-source music platform for your home. Your music runs through your own server – no forced accounts, no cloud in between. • Automatic server discovery on your network: sign in and go • Multiple connection profiles, optionally synced to all your devices via iCloud • Remote access on the go through your own secure connection • Real time: changes on the server appear in the app instantly GOOD TO KNOW Mobile MA is an independent app and requires a running Music Assistant server (free and open source, e.g. on a home server or NAS). The capabilities of your streaming providers depend on your server. The core features are free; advanced features can be unlocked with Mobile MA Unlimited via in-app purchase. Purchases are subject to Apple's standard license agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

PocketAnthem turns a sentence, a photo or your own lyrics into a complete song, melody, chords, vocals and accompaniment, generated on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. No server, no account: everything happens on the device. START WITH A SOUND, A PHOTO OR WORDS • One gesture to begin, then the app guides you: what you bring, the music, the lyrics, the proposal. • Hum, sing or whistle a tune: it becomes the score of the whole song. • Import a song or capture music around you: its melody is read and sung again in another style (Covers model, downloaded once). • Take a photo: the place and the mood become the subject, the photo the cover, and lyrics written on it can be sung. • Capture the moment: the icon, Control Center, Lock Screen, the Action button, Siri. • The format is guessed from your words: a 15-second jingle, a short video, a striking song, a full song, a song for someone, a lullaby. Each format asks its own question and drives the plan of the lyrics. • A style field that searches dozens of styles and learns your taste, a mood, ten lyrics languages, up to six minutes of song. • Apple Intelligence proposes a title, style, key, tempo and lyrics in sections, a different angle every time; you edit everything before anything starts. • Your own lyrics: paste a poem and it is cut into verses and choruses without changing a word; or write step by step, one passage after another. • Three quality levels: Light and Standard ship inside the app, Quality downloads once. LISTEN, READ, SHARE • The song plays with its waveform, keeps playing with the screen locked, and the lyrics follow the voice word by word. • The score as notation or guitar tablature, the cursor follows playback, export to PDF or ABC. Turn your iPhone: the song opens as a notebook. • A new version in one tap: another take, a variation, the rest redone from a moment, longer, in higher quality. • The workshop: keep the melody and change the rest, another style, other lyrics, another tempo, the instrumental alone or lyrics on it. Versions stay grouped. • The lyrics notebook: each line on its melody, one dot per note. Rewrite a line or hear it alone, "An idea" offers another one, the rest stays put. • On iPhone Duo opened flat, the song reads across the whole page: melody, lyrics and sound as three staves under the fold. • The library: listen from the list, hearts, tags, filters, playlists; find a song by title, style, a word of the lyrics or by meaning. WHILE IT GENERATES • Follow along from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. • Allow a few minutes (4 to 5 for 30 seconds on iPhone 15 Pro Max); stay in the app during the synthesis, or it resumes when you come back. EVERYTHING STAYS WITH YOU • No account, no upload, no tracking. The model ships inside the app, which works offline right after install; recordings and photos stay on the device. • What the app learns from you (your sounds, your formats, your listens) can be read in Settings, where it comes from and where it is reused. No profile: each use can be switched off, your listens can be forgotten. • Every export carries a machine-readable "made with AI" marker. ACCESSIBLE • VoiceOver and Voice Control everywhere, larger text up to the accessibility sizes, contrast checked in light and dark, the sung word marked without colour, reduced motion. PocketAnthem embeds the YuE2 models by Multimodal Art Projection (CC BY-NC 4.0 with individual creator permission): personal users and musicians may publish and monetize their songs; companies need a licence from the model authors. Details in Settings › Terms & licences. Requires an iPhone 15 Pro or later, an M1 iPad or later, or an Apple silicon Mac, and about 3.5 GB free (3.8 GB more for the Quality level, 1.5 GB for covers). Apple Intelligence serves proposals and cover art; without it, songs are written by hand.