Grooves - Rate Music
Rate, review & track albums
Only for iPhone
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Track, rate and review every album you love, build your music diary, and see what your friends are spinning. Discover your next favorite record.
Keep a diary of every album you love, and see what your friends are listening to.
Grooves is the social home for music lovers. Track the albums you've heard, follow the artists you love, and watch the activity of people who love the same records you do; all on your device. Build collections, and log the vinyl and CDs you own.
– See friends' recent reviews and trending albums
– Browse popular and newly added albums
– Rate, review, and explore full album info
– Build collections of the albums you love
– Follow other users and customise your profile
– Filter albums and reviews your way
– Queue albums to listen to later
– Search albums, EPs, artists, and users
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Grooves Terms of Service:
https://joingrooves.app/terms-of-service.html
Privacy Policy:
https://joingrooves.app/privacy-policy.html
more Last.fm integration, private accounts, notifications, Month in Music, genre and artist filters, sharing options, and bug fixes.
2.2.0 5 days ago
Redesigned track and artist pages, vinyl valuation, manual album adding, review translations, speedrating, faster performance, and many bug fixes.
2.1.0 8 Sept
No longer Groooves, now we're Grooves! (2 o's)
You can support the app and subscribe to the "Certified Music Lover" Subscription. As for right now you'll just be verified but you'll get huge perks in the upcoming updates!!! This is only for iOS as of right now
Home page now shows new releases!
Similar albums section added to the bottom of album page
Made track reviews detailed: mark a track as a favourite and write reviews with bold/italic formatting
You can search for tracks in the search page
You can now merely listen to an album with no need to make an entry
You can now sort the albums in a collection
+so many other things i can't fit
2.0.0 6 Aug
Major changes are as follows:
- Critics top 100 added for albums and tracks
- You can now share a track and an album
- See all the users that liked a review by clicking on the number of likes
- See all the other same album reviews that the user of a review has liked (like Letterboxd)
- See 'listening now' for Spotify
- You can make different album versions as profile banner instead of canonical
- No date listened is now possible
Minor changes / Improvements:
- If an entry has an album version, it will use the alternate album cover as the review's cover instead of the canonical (note: albums which previously had a version will remain unaffected; edit the review and re-select the album version if you want the alternative cover to show)
- User UI has completely changed: top part + info sheet layout, rating moved to bottom
- You can like reviews without needing to click into them in album page, also view replies count
- Assisting by genres in terms of average rating now ensures there are more than 20 reviews minimum (prevents single 5-star reviews from ranking top)
- Added Letterboxd + TikTok social links back to profiles
- Genres UI changed in /search/
- Small UI bug fixes and multiple new additions throughout
Bug Fixes:
- Bug fix for 1000 reviews display
- Bug fix for divider font weight differences
- Email security fixes
- Huge security fixes
- Only the most recent review will now count to the rating distribution + average rating of an album
1.3.4 30 June
UI Updates and Bug Fixes
1.3.3 17 June
The major changes are as follows:
• Sort artists page by release date, average rating, or rating count
• You can now reply to a track review and a collection
• You can now like the replies to a review, and a track review, and a collection review
• You can also now reply to replies on collections, reviews, and track reviews (sorry if this is confusing)
• You can pin a collection to your profile
• In the album page, you can see collections featuring said album
Minor changes / Improvements:
• Sharing to story UI changes
• Notifications are accounted for for all of the above
• Countless bug fixes
• Fixed most trackless albums and added disc support
1.3.2 9 June
Major Changes:
Album Standardization: this took the longest time: album data is the canonical/standard album and the tracklist is all the tracks across all versions. However, if someone wants to make a review of another version, they can associate the entry with that version.
You can now share albums in post format (5:4) alongside story format (16:9).
UI changes in New Entry Menu, Album Actions Menu, Settings Page, Tracklist Page
Small Changes:
Sort albums by duration
Top 250 album sizes increased
Comments now click to user page
Replaced TikTok with Twitter (using classic logo because Elon Musk's rebranding sucks)
+ Multiple Bug Fixes and more
1.3.1 26 May
Major Changes:
- Search has been completely changed. New animations, explore reviews, genres and top albums. Search History has also been added.
- Share your profile with others
- Top 250 Albums has been introduced
- Collections UI update: grid view, faded view.
Minor Changes & Improvements
- Top 250 introduced in Search
- Removed app review requesting from the top of the Home Screen
- Queue sorting
- View followers, following, and albums directly from your account page by tapping on them
- Spun by Friends: if a user has logged an album multiple times, it now appears once and opens a menu to see all logs
- Spun by Friends star preview
- Fade added for watched items in Popular This Week and Top 250
- Sort albums by track count
- UI tweaks across tab headers
- Activity feed font changed
- All-Following and All-Followed UI changes
- All-Albums: auto-scroll loading added + speed improvement
- All-XYZ title UI fixed
- All-Liked UI fixed
- Bug fix: Timeline NaN fix
- Bug fix: Popular This Week duplicate entries fixed
1.3.0 12 May
The major changes are as follows:
Collection preview now sorted by ranking number
Customisable collection banners
Overall improved loading performance across the app
Increased security, and character cap on reviews and other text inputs.
Filtering by category has been fixed
Minor changes / Improvements:
Smoother collection saving (alerts, instant updates)
New loading screen (I’m unsure about this change, tell me what you think)
General UI and performance improvements
Bug fixes (including slider glitch, discord link fixed etc)
1.2.8 22 Apr
The major changes are as follows:
You can customise and share your reviews.
Increased album loading speed
Minor changes / Improvements:
UI Changes in Album, Review, Profile and other pages.
Discord link added to get more people in this community
Account Badge added
Bug Fixes
1.2.7 16 Apr
New Feature Added: Timeline
+ Bug Fixes
+ Album Page UI updates
1.2.6 6 Apr
Bug Fixes, Social Media Links, UI Tweaks, and more!
1.2.5 30 Mar
Bug Fixes
Favourite Tracks in a review
1.2.4 22 Mar
- Tracks UI updates
- Other slight UI updates
- Relistened option in review
- Remove Favourites
- Bug Fixes
1.2.3 17 Mar
Bug Fixes, UI Updates
1.2.2 13 Mar
Track Reviews! You can now review tracks.
Also bug fixes, album UI and artist UI updates
1.2.0 25 Feb
- Feedback
- Bug fixes
1.1.8 10 Feb
- Home screen addition (reviews)
- UI updates
- Account/User display updates
- Bug fixes / Layout fixes
1.1.7 9 Feb
- Fixed email auth
- Collection creation UI updates
- Collection UI updates
- Album UI updates
- Notification updates
- Bug fixes
1.1.6 3 Feb
Last.fm integration, private accounts, notifications, Month in Music, genre and artist filters, sharing options, and bug fixes.
more Version 2.2.0 5 days ago
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