Spindle: Music Player

For anyone who misses click wheels and MiniDiscs: a tactile, offline player for the music you actually own. You bring the curation; Spindle just plays it back.

The dedicated music player you miss, rebuilt for iPhone.

For those with a spot of nostalgia for click wheels and MiniDiscs: those little machines played the music you owned, in the order you chose. No feed. No account. No algorithm deciding what came next. Spindle brings that back.

A player you hold. A real jog wheel: drag to scroll, flick to coast, spin to scrub. Eyes-up and thumb-driven. Not another screen of flat buttons.

Your collection, one turn away. Albums, artists, songs, genres, and folders: on a shelf you can spin through. Loved and most-played stay close to hand.

You bring the curation. The music you own, in the order you meant it. Spindle just plays it back.

And it plays your library right. Every lossless format: FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV, plus MP3 and AAC, all at native rate, untouched. No in-app resampling, no DSP. That's True mode, on by default; it powers a 10-band EQ when you want it, flat when you don't, and if you ever hit a snag you can switch back to the native iOS player. Gapless throughout, AirPlay 2 for the room, and CarPlay for the car. Scrobbles to Last.fm, if you keep count.

Get your music in, fast. Import a whole folder in one pick, drop files over Wi-Fi, AirDrop them, or pull from Files: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive. Your playlists (.m3u) come along.

Three ways to wear it. Paper, Dark, or Nothing.

No account. No subscription. No tracking. Your files stay on your device. Buy it once.

Made by raindog, a small audio studio in Richmond, VA. Instruments, not utilities.