Crates
one app, all your music!
Free
Major update: unified search, upgraded downloads, and new artist, label, and release views. Faster sync, improved playback, and better control over your music.
Crates is a music app for dedicated listeners who truly care about their music collection.
Build, organize, and explore your music library across local files and streaming sources - all in one place.
Crates Mobile is a companion app to Crates Desktop (Mac & PC).
It requires a desktop installation and currently works with Supporter accounts.
Crates connects directly to your desktop and syncs your music library securely - no third-party uploads. Your collection stays yours.
- Sync your full music library to mobile
- Transfer audio files over Wi-Fi in one click
- Automatically convert FLAC, WAV, AIFF and more to save space
- Play everything from one app (local files + Bandcamp, YouTube, SoundCloud)
- Stream your desktop library directly to your phone over Wi-Fi
Crates is built for listeners who want control, quality, and a better way to manage their music beyond traditional streaming apps.
Join our community on Discord to share feedback, report issues, and help define what comes next.
Crates Team
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New:
- Downloads: Major upgrade with download quality selection, improved progress visibility, cancellation controls, and broader UX polish across the full download flow.
- New Search: Added unified results across artists, releases, crates, playlists, labels, and tunes, with recent searches that reflect selected results.
- New Artist & Label Pages: Added descriptions, releases, and tunes.
- Release View: Added dedicated view for albums and releases, routing from release crates and search results.
- Tune Info: Added a dedicated tune info modal for viewing tune details.
Fixes & Improvements:
- Sync: Fixed Realm invalidation crashes during resync, tightened cancellation so only resyncs can be stopped, and improved desktop sync cancellation safety.
- Sync: Improved pairing and reconnect recovery by canceling stale retries and restoring the back button in reconnect flow.
- Playback: Improved mini player queue preload, playback row loading state, and YouTube error handling.
- Search: Improved search detail loading and tightened debounce behavior for faster, steadier results.
- Artwork: Fixed invalid cover ID lookups, stopped falling back for missing covers, and improved artist detail image quality and offline artwork lookup after sync.
- Navigation: Synced crate tabs into the left rail and fixed the library drawer tab highlight.
- UI: Shrunk inline link overflow ellipses and cleaned up active crate tune loading.
The developer, CRATES Ι.Κ.Ε., 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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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- CRATES Ι.Κ.Ε.
- Size
- 69.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 CRATES, IKE