Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you.
Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favourites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options:
- Orderliness: by artist, then by album
- Addiction: by amount of time spent listening
- Brightness: by the primary colour of the album artwork
- Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating
- Recency: by date added
- Memory: by last played
- Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song
- Random: a new order, every time you tap it
You can organise your albums into collections, which sync across your devices.
Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order.
It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them.
It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight. Submit your listens to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually.
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Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focussing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs.
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Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection.
It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists.
Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs.
It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.
Perfect companion app for Apple Music. I realize how many workarounds I have tried over the years to have something like this. I used custom labels on iTunes to tag complete albums. I created complicated shortcuts to shuffle albums, and not songs. But those were just that - workarounds. This is the real thing, and I say thank you to the developer! I wouldn’t change a thing… or maybe, just one. Have a view of the album cover, and just that, while playing on the iPad.
So good
afriendlypotato
I’m an albums-not-playlists person, and Longplay is how I listen to most of my music. It’s quality stuff and absolutely worth the asking price.
Seriously!?!?
Slim416
Where have you been all my digital life???? You single handily brought my CD albums back to me in 2025!!! Thank you!
Please marry me
david_treblig
I’ve been dreaming of this app for so long. Thank you thank you thank you 🔥🔥🔥
- Playlists with custom artwork now show their artwork (again)
- Tweaked inclusion rule to also show complete but shorter albums
- Minor user interface tweaks
Version 2.6.1
The developer, Adrian Schoenig, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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