aud vs Pocket Disk

Your music. On your devices. Beautifully. aud-io is a local-first music player for the music you actually own, with the option of adding your Apple Music library alongside it. Two libraries, one beautiful app, never merged and never overwritten. EVERYONE ELSE MAKES YOU CHOOSE Local players cannot touch Apple Music. Apple Music players cannot touch your files. aud-io does both, and keeps a hard line between them, so your collection stays exactly as you built it. MEET THE SHELF Cover Flow, rebuilt. Scroll through your own artwork, from your own files, and tap to play. Browse by artist, album, song, playlist or genre when you know what you want, and use The Shelf when you do not. BRING YOUR LIBRARY IN, YOUR WAY Import from Files, share or AirDrop from anywhere, watch a folder, open a ZIP, or send your library straight from your Mac over local Wi-Fi. Peer to peer, device to device, no cloud in between. aud-io reads your existing metadata and artwork. FLAC, ALAC, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and CAF. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY The free player handles your whole library, in every format, at up to 256 kbps. Pro removes the ceiling: every file at its native resolution, bit-perfect to your DAC, with automatic source rate matching, true gapless, crossfade, a 10-band EQ and EBU R128 loudness normalisation. EVERYWHERE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN iPhone and iPad, with a native Mac app available separately. Apple Watch as a remote. CarPlay for your library and playlists on the road. AirPlay to your speakers. Home screen widgets for Now Playing, Recently Added and The Shelf. Use aud-io on iPhone as a remote for the Mac from anywhere in the house. BRING IN A WHOLE COLLECTION Import CDs. Connect a NAS. Point aud-io at the library you already have, wherever it lives, without running server software. DISCOVER MORE IN THE MUSIC YOU ALREADY HAVE Find deep cuts. Surface recently added music. Group by genre. Build mixes from the files on your device, generated on your device. OPTIONAL, AND ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Add your own Google Gemini key and aud-io can curate mixes, suggest radio-style listening and enrich music details. The key lives in your device Keychain. Your audio is never uploaded. Without a key, it is simply off. Apple Music, if you connect it, uses your own subscription through Apple's system permission. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The free player is a capable local music player. One Pro purchase unlocks advanced listening. There is no recurring fee, and there never will be. Pro on iPhone and iPad is a separate purchase from Pro on Mac. Works fully offline. No aud-io server. No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Made in Sydney by DIGITAL x DESIGN, for people who still care about their music library.

Your music. A little more hands-on. Pocket Disk brings the feel of a classic portable CD player to your Apple Music library. Browse your albums as jewel cases, choose a favorite, and watch the case open as the disc moves into the player. Close the lid, press play, and enjoy the album. A PLAYER WITH PERSONALITY Metallic black finishes, an amber track display, tactile-style controls, and a spinning disc bring a little of the ’90s to your listening routine. YOUR LIBRARY, ON DISC Flip through your album collection in a cover-flow view. Album artwork stays on the jewel case, while the disc carries a clean album-and-artist label. Add albums to your library in Apple Music to browse them in Pocket Disk. THE SMALL DETAILS MATTER Open the player to change discs. Pick up browsing where you left off when you open it again. Play, pause, or skip tracks with familiar controls, and keep listening in the background. MADE TO FIT Enjoy room for the player and your album collection on larger displays. Browse with the disc above your library in portrait, or side by side in landscape. Pocket Disk adapts to iPhone and iPad displays, with VoiceOver, larger text layouts, and Reduce Motion support. APPLE MUSIC REQUIRED Pocket Disk connects to your Apple Music library and requires permission to access your music. An eligible Apple Music subscription is required for catalog playback. Pocket Disk does not include a music subscription or a collection of songs. No separate Pocket Disk account is required.