Release notes

Every release, newest first - the same notes the app shows in Settings.

1.2 - A bunch of tweaks

1 October 2026

Favorites

Press and hold a song or an album and choose Add to Favorites. Everything you've hearted is together under Favorites in the menu, and an album says how many of its songs have a heart: 3 of 12. Songs with five stars on your Mac, or marked loved in their own tags, show up there by themselves.

Last.fm

Turn on Scrobble to Last.fm in Settings and sign in, and every song you listen to past halfway goes to your Last.fm profile. Plays wait on the phone when you're offline and go up when you're back.

About the music

Artists open on a photo, with a few lines from Wikipedia and who's in the band. More by lists their albums you don't have yet, a tap from the iTunes Store, and an artist's name on the play screen takes you to them. It comes from free, open music databases: Settings, Artist & Album Info.

Lyrics, and the dock

Hold the phone upright with lyrics open and the controls step aside after a few seconds. On a charger, turn on Keep lytti Alive When Docked in Settings: while music plays, lytti stays awake, goes to the play screen by itself and dims, and lyrics keep going from song to song.

Edge to edge

Albums, artists, genres, playlists and the player now fill the whole screen. Close them by pulling down, or by swiping in from the left edge. Tap a cover and it opens on its own, sharp enough to pinch or double-tap into.

A little color

The library sits on a soft wash of color now instead of plain white or black. Rather have it plain? Settings, Background. And the ear on the app icon has a soft glow behind it now, so it stands out on a dark home screen.

Recents

A new view: everything you've played lately, newest first, including what you played in the Music app before lytti. The rest of your library follows, newest additions first. And Recently Added is now Added Recently.

Keep playing, and fixes

Rather the music stopped when it ends? Switch off Keep Playing When the Music Ends in Settings. If iOS closes lytti while paused, the mini player is still there when you come back. Up Next shows each song's own cover, and songs you bought but never downloaded get a way to the iTunes Store.

1.1 - Some requests, and some fixes

20 September 2026

Auto refresh of added music

Sync an album from your Mac, or buy one, and lytti picks it up by itself the next time you open it. No more wondering where the new record went. Pull to refresh still works. You just shouldn't need it.

More lyrics!

lytti now reads the lyrics tagged in your own files, synced ones included, and those need no connection at all. Online lyrics still fill the gaps, and there's a switch in Settings if you'd rather lytti never went looking.

Export galore!

Ever wondered how often you play your guilty pleasures? Now you can know. lytti keeps every play, not just the last 200, and writes them to a spreadsheet file as you listen - export it, open it on your computer, import one back. It lives on the new Data screen in Settings, with everything else lytti keeps.

1.0 - We're live

8 September 2026

First release, and there was much rejoicing

lytti is on the App Store. Everything below is new, in the strict sense that nobody outside one phone has had it - which is a very small sample. Welcome, and tell us what falls over.

What lytti is

lytti plays the music that is already on your phone, and nothing else. No catalog, no subscription, nothing to sign in to. The albums you synced, bought or downloaded sit in a grid you can set from 2 to 5 across with a pinch, sorted by artist, genre, what arrived last or what you play most.

Finding things

Search finds songs, not just albums and artists, and it is there on Home as well as the grid. Tap a result to play it and the rest follow on; hold one to drop it into a playlist.

A player, not a storefront

The cover fills the screen and the colours come off it - and on its side the record takes the left half, with the songs beside it. Time-synced lyrics scroll with the song, and tapping a line jumps there. When a record ends lytti keeps going: the next album, or something in the same vein, worked out on the phone.

Playlists that are yours

Make one, name it, add songs, drag them into order, delete it when you're done. These live in lytti, so there is nothing to sign in to and nothing of yours gets rewritten. The playlists already on your phone sit in the same list, marked Music - and Edit a Copy in lytti makes one yours.

Where you left off

Home gathers what you've been playing, what you play most and what arrived last, in whatever order you put the views in. A Recently Played widget puts your last records on the home screen. Play counts move when you listen here, because lytti keeps its own beside the one no app can write.

Yours to fix, and yours to keep

Rename an album, correct an artist, drop in your own cover - your edits sit on top of the original and your library is never touched. Playlists, counts and history travel through your own iCloud, and Settings → Backup writes the lot to a file you keep.

Not here yet

lytti can't import files of its own, so FLAC isn't supported and the music has to reach your library the usual ways. If that's what you came for, say so in Settings → Send Feedback - it is top of the list, and what happens next is at lytti.app.