Release notes
Every release, newest first — the same notes the app shows in Settings.
1.38 — Playlists with a face
16 August 2026
Playlists with a face
Every playlist now wears a collage of its first records' covers — in the list and on the playlist itself, which opens like an album: the first cover fills the background, and Play and Shuffle take their colors from it.
Making playlists is on hold
Creating and editing playlists is switched off for now. Apple Music stopped answering when lytti asked to write to your library, and a button that hangs is worse than no button. The ones you already have are untouched — they show up and they play, and the Music app still edits them.
Editing that behaves
The edit screens for albums and tracks got manners: Cancel now undoes everything — including a new cover you picked — resets ask before they wipe, and each field shows the original value in gray so you always know what "back to original" means. The number pad finally has a Done button.
A tidier Settings
Settings reads top to bottom the way you'd expect: theme, play counts in one place, storage, backup, privacy — and the version number at the bottom, with What's New as its own line.
1.07 — The menu is yours
14 August 2026
Arrange the menu
The three-dot menu now ends with Edit Menu — drag the views into your order, remove the ones you never use, bring them back whenever. The arrangement follows you through iCloud, and the last view can never disappear.
1.04 — A home for your listening
14 August 2026
Home
The menu behind the three dots has a new view: Home — three shelves for what you just listened to, what you play the most, and what arrived last. Tap a cover to open the record. The app still opens where you left it.
Recent listens
lytti now remembers when you play something, not just how often — that's what fills the first shelf. It starts counting from today, follows your play counts through iCloud, and Clear play counts in Settings forgets it too.
0.98 — Help me find bugs (or don't — your call)
14 August 2026
Anonymous usage statistics
lytti can now send anonymous crash reports and usage statistics — which features get used, and what broke — so bugs on phones I've never seen still get found. Never which music you own, play, or search for. It's on by default, and Settings → Privacy has the switch; turning it off stops and clears it immediately. Everything else still stays on your phone, same as always.
0.97 — Browse by genre
14 August 2026
The library, sorted by kind
The sort menu has a new choice: Genres. Pick it and the grid gives way to a list of the kinds of music you own — each with a cover, and a count of the records behind it. Tap one to see its shelf, artist by artist. Records without a genre gather under Unknown Genre at the bottom, so nothing goes missing.
0.96 — Widgets, the way they were drawn
14 August 2026
Covers wall to wall
The medium widget is three covers edge to edge, names resting on a soft shade at the foot. The large widget leads with the last record — just its name now, no chatter — over a full-width row of the four before it.
Cleaner names
Widget titles drop the boilerplate: "(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)", "(Deluxe Edition)", "(2011 Remaster)" and friends are stripped on the widget only — your library keeps the full names. "Multiple Artists" lines disappear instead of stating the obvious.
0.95 — Widget touch-up
14 August 2026
Equal covers, even halves
The medium widget crops each cover the same way, same size, names on their own bar underneath. The large widget splits evenly: last played on top, the four before it below.
0.93 — The bigger widgets grow up
14 August 2026
Medium: three records, edge to edge
The medium widget is now the last three records you played, covers edge to edge with the name on each — no more tiny grid.
Large: the last record up front
The large widget leads with the record you played last — tap it to pick up where you left off — and keeps the four before it as covers underneath.
0.92 — Your play counts follow you
14 August 2026
Counted plays live in iCloud now
The plays lytti counts for you are stored in your iCloud from this version on. Delete the app and put it back, or move to a new phone one day — the counts come along. Nothing else leaves the phone, same as always: this is your data in your iCloud, no account with us, nothing shared.
0.91 — The app stops expiring
14 August 2026
Installed once, good for a year
lytti is now built on a real Apple developer account. Until today every install died after seven days and had to be put back with a cable; this copy is signed to last until August 2027. It also opens the door to app updates arriving without the cable at all, later.
0.89 — Lyrics that take the whole screen
13 August 2026
Sideways, the words get the stage
Phone on its side, lyrics on: leave it alone for a few seconds and the buttons, the title and the scrubber fade away — just the cover and the words. Tap anywhere to bring them back. Swipe left or right to change songs, exactly as before.
0.84 — The play screen, turned on its side
13 August 2026
Lyrics get the whole screen in landscape
Turn the phone sideways with lyrics on and the cover fills the left edge, the words sit beside it, and the buttons step out of the way — the lyrics toggle waits in the top corner. Turn lyrics off and prev/pause/next come back.
Swipe to change songs
Swipe left or right on the cover or the lyrics — next song, previous song. Works held upright and on its side.
0.82 — Your records, on the home screen
13 August 2026
A widget, like the one Music has
Long-press the home screen, add the lytti widget, and the records you played last are there as covers — one, four, or eight depending on the size you pick. Tap a cover and the app opens straight onto that album. It fills in as you listen.
0.81 — Add to Playlist, right under your thumb
13 August 2026
Long-press, pick a playlist, done
Hold an album — in the library or on its own page — or any song, and Add to Playlist is right there in the menu. Pick a playlist and it's in. Songs already on the list are skipped, so adding an album twice never doubles anything.
0.77 — Playlists, and a backup that fits in one file
13 August 2026
Your playlists, finally
Sort by Playlists and they're all there — including the ones made in the Music app. Open one to play it, shuffle it, or start from any song. The little cover follows each song home to its own record while you listen.
Make and shape them here
Create a playlist, rename it, add songs from your library, drag them into order, swipe them out — right on the phone. Smart playlists stay as they are; those belong to the Music app's machinery. Long-press an album or an artist and Make a Playlist builds a "More like this" list from your own library.
Your listening history, safe in one file
Settings → Backup saves your play counts and every edit you've made as one file. Import it after a reinstall and everything merges back safely — a count never goes down, and edits you made here always win.
Lyrics that let you read
The two lines above and below the one being sung are now fully sharp, and touching the lyrics pops the whole text into focus so you can read any verse. Let go, and it glides back to the song. Tap a line to jump there.
0.69 — Lyrics that let you read
13 August 2026
More of the song at once
The line being sung is still the sharp one, but the neighbours stopped hiding: the two lines above and below are now fully readable, and the softening starts further out. You can read ahead without squinting.
Scroll, and the fog lifts
Touch the lyrics and the whole text pops into focus so you can read any verse you like. Let go, and after a moment it glides back to the line being sung. Tap a line to jump there in the song.
0.68 — Easier to reach, easier to read
12 August 2026
Jump to a letter
Sort by Artists or Albums and the alphabet appears down the right edge. Drag it and the library follows your thumb. It's your alphabet, so Æ, Ø and Å stand on their own after Z.
Squeeze the library down to a list
The density button now goes one step further than two covers across, to a list: small artwork, one record per line, with the year on the right. Pinching gets you there too — it's the same setting, and lytti remembers where you left it.
Turn the phone sideways
The record moves to the left and everything else lines up beside it — the words, the scrubber and the buttons. Lyrics get a column at a width you can actually read.
Lyrics come into focus
The line being sung is sharp; every other line softens and fades the further it is from it. The couple of lines either side stay readable, so you can still see what's coming.
Buttons that answer
The floating buttons are easier to hit, and they no longer go dead once they've faded. Settings is reachable from every screen — it used to vanish along with your library.
Nothing plays until you press play
Opening lytti no longer takes the sound from whatever else is playing. It waits for you.
When lytti can't see your music
A screen that says what the library is for and how to switch access back on, instead of "Something went wrong". Nothing went wrong — you just said no.
Something to start with
With an empty library, the six suggested records now show their covers rather than just titles.
0.52 — Your library, by the people who made it
12 August 2026
Artists have their own page
Sorting by Artists now opens a list of the people on your phone instead of rearranging the same covers. Tap one and you get their records in the order they came out, with the year under each, and their picture at the top where the library has one.
Play a whole artist
Play runs their discography from the earliest record to the latest. Shuffle takes everything they made and mixes it. Either way, Up Next shows what's actually coming.
Who else sounds like this
Under the records, More Like This suggests artists from your own shelf — never the one you're already looking at.
0.42 — The controls are made of glass now
12 August 2026
Your covers show through
The mini player, the search field, the column button and the sort menu are real glass: they pick up the artwork scrolling underneath, bend the light around their edges, and press in when you touch them. Nothing is painted on top of your music any more.
Search opens properly
Tap the magnifier and Cancel now flows out of the field as its own button, then melts back into it when you're done.
Needs iOS 26
That's what the new look is built on. If your iPhone is on an older version, stay on 0.41.
0.41 — Lyrics turn up, and the music doesn't stop
12 August 2026
It keeps playing
When an album ends, lytti carries on with the same artist's next one — or something else from your shelf if that's all they've got. The next tracks appear in Up Next before they start, so you can change your mind first.
Lyrics for the rest of your library
Words now turn up for music from Apple Music and the iTunes Store, not just files you copied over yourself.
A play count that counts this app
Your music library keeps a tally no app can touch, so lytti keeps its own and shows you both added together. Most Played finally moves when you listen here.
Settings
Light or dark, what's stored on the device and how much room it takes, and a way to reach us. The version is a door — it's how you got here.
New name, new ear
It's lytti now, with a redrawn icon that has proper dark and tinted versions.
Smaller things
Pull down to refresh the library after buying or downloading something. An empty library explains itself instead of showing a blank grid. The player's controls sit closer together, so the queue below peeks in.