Vinyls - Record Player3.1.1 - App Store

Vinyls turns your Apple Music library into spinning vinyl records. Watch the tone arm drop onto the groove. Hear the warm crackle of analog. Drag your finger across the disc to scrub through any song - just like spinning a real record.
THE FEELING OF VINYL

There's a reason vinyl never went away. The ritual of choosing a record. The warmth of analog sound. The artwork at full size. The satisfaction of hearing that first crackle as the tone arm finds the groove.

Vinyls captures that feeling in digital form - the tone arm tracking across the record in real time, your album art pressed onto the disc, your cover displayed full-size in its sleeve. Not a tiny thumbnail. The complete cover, alive with colour and detail. Nostalgic, tactile, and entirely yours to customise.
THE VINYL RECORD YOU CAN TOUCH

Most music players give you a progress bar. Vinyls gives you a spinning record.

Swipe up from the vinyl to browse your full library. Swipe down to dismiss. Drag your finger across the disc to hear a realistic scratch sound. Feel every needle drop with haptic feedback - a subtle vibration as the tone arm touches down and as you scrub through the track. Your music, made physical.
A LIVING RECORD

Albums you haven't played in a while gather cobwebs and dust on the sleeve - just like a forgotten record in a crate. Shake your phone or tap the sleeve to clear them and spin the record again.
MAKE IT YOURS

Your record collection should look like yours. Choose from 12 accent colours or pick any shade from the full spectrum. Select from a range of alternative app icons. Full dark mode with a near-black background that makes cover art glow.

Turn on vibrant backgrounds and the colours from your album art wash across the entire app - behind the vinyl, through the library, and into the controls themselves. The whole interface shifts with every record you play.
BUILT FOR EVERY APPLE DEVICE

Your record collection goes wherever Apple does.

iPhone - Full-screen player with gesture and haptic controls.
iPad - Three-column layout with player, browser, and library side by side.
Mac - Native app with keyboard shortcuts for every playback action.
Widgets - Now Playing artwork on your home screen and lock screen.
AirPlay - Send audio to any compatible speaker with a single tap.
VINYLS PLATINUM

Download free and start listening immediately. Your Apple Music library is ready the moment you open the app.

Vinyls Platinum unlocks the full experience - every colour, every visual detail, every sound effect. Make the app entirely yours. Available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Put the needle on the record.
Requires an active Apple Music subscription for playback. Vinyls is built exclusively for the Apple Music ecosystem and does not support Spotify or other streaming services.

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Version History This update focuses on polish and reliability.

- Smoother tonearm animations when skipping tracks and opening lists
- Better readability for long titles in 3D Vinyl mode and on vibrant backgrounds
- More reliable iPad navigation restoration after relaunch
- Fixes for search playback dismissal, sidebar highlighting, and shared listening updates 3.1.1 Jun 13 • Now Playing Widget: New Home Screen widgets show the current track with live artwork backgrounds and playback controls.
• Shuffle & Repeat: Dedicated toggle buttons in the player with clear active and inactive states.

Improvements
- Faster, snappier playback: play, skip, and queue load all respond quicker.
- Real-time scrubbing: drag across the vinyl to jump to any point in a track.
- Artist names now appear in song list subtitles.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed the app interrupting Apple Music playback on launch.
- Fixed SharePlay sessions getting out of sync with the host.
- Fixed the spinning vinyl jumping or resetting when tracks change.
- Fixed several crashes when browsing songs, artists, and playlists.
- Fixed deep links and quick actions failing on cold launch.
- Fixed stale or duplicated content in lists.
- Fixed AR not releasing resources.
- Fixed "View Album" not opening the correct album.
- Fixed unwanted focus rings on Mac.
- Fixed now-playing layout inconsistencies across devices. 3.1.0 Jun 6 Vinyls 3.0.0 — Completely Refreshed

Vinyls has been redesigned for iOS 26 with the new Liquid Glass look throughout, plus major improvements under the hood.

What's New
- Beautiful new glass-styled controls and interface
- Redesigned onboarding experience
- Vibrant adaptive backgrounds on iPad and Mac that reflect your album artwork
- Text colors automatically adjust for readability on any album art
- Redesigned sort options with clear, labeled sections

Faster & Smoother
- Library loads almost instantly — no more waiting on launch
- Improved vinyl disc and tonearm layout on all screen sizes
- Lower battery use when music is paused

Bug Fixes
- Fixed crackle audio not starting immediately when toggled mid-playback
- Fixed multiple Mac playback issues
- Fixed multiple crashes across all platforms
- Fixed play button not responding on cold launch
- Fixed artist pages showing incorrect albums
- Many more stability and polish fixes 3.0.0 Apr 5 - Replaced the segmented section selector with a drop-down context menu
- Improved various layouts and context menus
- Fixed issue where artists would sometimes appear duplicated
- Fixed issue where the search icon would be displayed upside-down at times
- Fixed issue where scrubbing through the A-Z selector would display the top of the list if no items were found rather than staying in place
- Fixed issue where switching to the artists section wouldn’t persist
- Fixed issue where the app would crash on launch at times
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.3.2 01/18/2024 - Added URL schemes to open and start playing songs using their respective IDs (vinyls://songid={id})
- Reimagined the settings section
- Fixed issue where music content wouldn’t appear at times
- Fixed issue where some playlist artwork would be missing
- Fixed issue where nearby TVs wouldn’t be discoverable
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.3.1 01/18/2024 - Reimagined the settings section
- Fixed issue where music content wouldn’t appear at times
- Fixed issue where some playlist artwork would be missing
- Fixed issue where nearby TVs wouldn’t be discoverable
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.3 01/18/2024 - Added an artists section to the media picker
- Added artist search
- Added a settings option to toggle displaying the music recognition button
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.2 09/20/2023 - Added Shazam Library to view all previous music recognition as a list
- Long-press to remove items from the Shazam Library
- Fixed issue where music recognition would sometimes freeze the app
- Fixed issue where music recognition would sometimes overlay displayed text

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.1 09/19/2023 - Added interactive Widgets for iOS 17 (tap the vinyl to toggle music playback)
- Fixed issue where Widgets wouldn’t be displayed at times
- Fixed issue where Widgets wouldn’t update when changing tracks

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.0.1 09/18/2023 - New app icon
- New alt app icons
- Improved placeholder text
- Improved Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
- Fixed various layouts on different devices
- Fixed issue where the vinyl would rotate when swiping up to view lists
- Fixed issue where selecting a track from within an album wouldn’t update the play state

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 2.0 09/15/2023 - Added last played dates to albums
- Added placeholder thumbnails to songs that didn’t contain artwork
- The play button in album or playlist details can now be toggled between states to play/pause the music
- Recents will now only display recently played music
- Improved the UI across the app
- Improved various spacing and alignment across the app
- Improved various animations
- Removed artists
- Fixed issue where tapping artist header images would display an associated album
- Fixed issue where playlist descriptions would contain HTML tags at times
- Fixed issue where switching search segments would expand the related search view despite having no results to display
- Fixed various layouts on different devices

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.41 08/13/2023 - Added last played dates to albums
- Added placeholder thumbnails to songs that didn’t contain artwork
- The play button in album or playlist details can now be toggled between states to play/pause the music
- Recents will now only display recently played music
- Improved the UI across the app
- Improved various spacing and alignment across the app
- Improved various animations
- Fixed issue where tapping artist header images would display an associated album
- Fixed issue where playlist descriptions would contain HTML tags at times
- Fixed issue where switching search segments would expand the related search view despite having no results to display

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.40 08/10/2023 - Added SharePlay to listen to music together via FaceTime
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.35 06/02/2023 - Preparation for future versions of iOS
- Music recognition now displays a popup and prompt to play the discovered track rather than playing it immediately
- Corrected text formatting for track counts
- Fixed issue where the vinyl disc wouldn’t stop pulsing after discovering music
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.34 10/21/2021 - Music recognition now displays a popup and prompt to play the discovered track rather than playing it immediately
- Corrected text formatting for track counts
- Fixed issue where the vinyl disc wouldn’t stop pulsing after discovering music
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.33 10/15/2021 - The sidebar now displays playlist artwork
- Improved various animations
- Fixed issue where tapping the music recognition button again wouldn’t stop recognising music
- Fixed issue where some media would fail to load
- Fixed issue where some album artwork would change after viewing it
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.32 09/22/2021 - Added music recognition and playback (long-press the vinyl disc or play button to present the option)
- Fixed issue where scrolling through lists would sometimes display the incorrect list title in the navigation bar
- Fixed issue where the arm wouldn’t display on initial launch at times
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.30 09/20/2021 - Added an option to send music to a nearby Apple TV (via disc and play button context menus)
- Minor UI changes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.29 05/04/2021 - Added a spinning vinyl AR experience where you can control music playback and ‘scrub’ the disc with your finger via the camera (accessible via long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button, and the scrub interaction can be disabled via settings)
- Added track details to context menus when long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button
- Increased the alphanumeric scrubber size to imrpove accessibility
- Minor UI changes
- Fixed issue where going back from viewing album or artist details would hide the alphanumeric scrubber
- Fixed issue where the app would fail to launch at times
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.28 05/03/2021 - Added a spinning vinyl AR experience where you can control music playback and ‘scrub’ the disc with your finger via the camera (accessible via long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button, and the scrub interaction can be disabled via settings)
- Added track details to context menus when long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button
- Increased the alphanumeric scrubber size to imrpove accessibility
- Minor UI changes
- Fixed issue where going back from viewing album or artist details would hide the alphanumeric scrubber
- Fixed issue where the app would fail to launch at times
- Fixed various crashes

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.27 05/02/2021 - Added a spinning vinyl AR experience where you can control music playback and ‘scrub’ the disc with your finger via the camera (accessible via long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button, and the scrub interaction can be disabled via settings)
- Added track details to context menus when long-pressing the vinyl disc or play button
- Increased the alphanumeric scrubber size to imrpove accessibility
- Minor UI changes
- Fixed issue where going back from viewing album or artist details would hide the alphanumeric scrubber

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.26 04/30/2021 - Added an artists section
- Added alphanumeric scrubbers to quickly navigate through long lists
- Search for artists and view all albums by the respective artist
- View the album artist and related albums from within album detail views
- Long-press dismiss buttons to dismiss all presented views
- Added more alt app icons
- Added more keyboard shortcuts
- Added empty states for artist views without albums
- Added various localizations, including Japanese and Turkish (thank you so much to everyone that helped with these)
- Improved various missing localizations
- Minor UI changes
- Fixed issue where music would stop playing and reset when entering the app after it had entered the background
- Fixed issue where the details ‘scroll of paper’ wouldn’t always scroll to the top when opened
- Fixed issue where artist/composer details for recently added albums weren’t possible to view

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.25 04/28/2021 - Added more sort options for songs
- Added a shuffle button to albums and playlists track lists
- Improved various contrasts
- Improved various haptics
- Minor UI changes
- Added various localizations, including Italian (thank you so much to everyone that helped with these)

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.24 04/25/2021 - Added a shuffle button to albums and playlists track lists
- Improved various contrasts
- Improved various haptics
- Minor UI changes
- Added various localizations, including Italian (thank you so much to everyone that helped with these)

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.23 04/23/2021 - Minor UI changes
- Fixed issue where the tone arm would be incorrectly laid out on some devices
- Fixed issue where the dismiss button in album or playlist details would be sized incorrectly at times when scrolling down and back up

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Vinyls was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin. 1.0.22 04/22/2021