MusicSmart Press Kit
About MusicSmart
MusicSmart reveals the credits and liner notes behind your favorite music, helping you explore the people, stories, and creative process that bring each track to life.
It aggregates music knowledge from various sources into a powerful and easy-to-use app allowing you to discover music through the credits — the writers, collaborators, vocalists, engineers, lyricists, producers, composers, and others who worked on a given track or album.
Browse the catalog in-app or share any song from Apple Music or Spotify. Navigate detailed credits, trace connections between creators, dive into their other work, discover samples and covers, and much more.
Core Features
- Smart Sections: Automatically groups credits by their category in the song creation process and ensures they follow a logical order, making it easier to read and understand who contributed to each aspect of the song.
- Roles and Instruments Insights: Comprehensive insights into each role and instrument used in a song. For example, what is a Producer or Mixing Engineer?
- Samples, Interpolations, and more: Discover related musical compositions that have been used in the creation of a song through techniques like sampling, interpolation, and more.
- Continuous Mode: Automatically shows liner notes and credits for the currently playing song.
- Shazam: Shows liner notes and credits for songs playing around you.
- Action Extension: Use MusicSmart directly from Apple Music or Spotify.
- Artist Profile: Discover the network of contributors behind songs and explore more of their work — popular songs, movies and TV shows they appeared on, links to social network profiles, biography, and more.
- Podcast Episodes: Find podcast episodes that mentioned a specific song.
- Music Library Integration: Connect your Apple Music or Spotify account to easily get liner notes and credits for albums in your music library.
- App Shortcuts: Build automated workflows using MusicSmart's actions to find liner notes and credits.
- Inteactive Widgets: Quickly access MusicSmart from your Home Screen and Lock Screen.
- Mac and Apple TV: MusicSmart is also available on the Mac and Apple TV as a Universal App.
Content
MusicSmart relies on multiple online sources and databases to find liner notes and credits, so the number of details available may vary for each song. Some of the available details are:
- Description: Information about the recording process, the backstory behind the song, artists, etc.
- Songwriting and Composition: Composer, Arranger, Producer, and more.
- Performance and Recording: Vocals, Performer, Programmer, Engineers, Editor, and more.
- Marketing and Distribution: A&R, Publishers, Distributors, and more.
- Business: Labels, Copyright, and more.
- Visuals: Director, Cinematographer, Designer, Visualizer, and more.
- Locations: Recorded At, Mixed At, Mastered At, and more.
- Instruments: Drums, Shakers, Strings, Guitars, Keyboards, and more.
Links
App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512195368
Screenshots
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Price and Availability
MusicSmart is free to download on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. You can experience the app's full feature set with up to five songs at no cost. After that, a subscription to MusicSmart Premium is required to continue using the app. The pricing for each plan is detailed below:
Monthly: $1.99/mo
Annual: $9.99/yr
Lifetime: $19.99 (single purchase)
MusicSmart requires iOS/iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and tvOS 18.
Release Date
May 19, 2020.
Questions?
Don't hesitate to reach out via email with any questions you may have.