Modizer
Music
Free · In-App Purchases
Modizer is a multiformat modules & chiptunes player which allows you to listen to computers and consoles music (ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, PC, GB, GBA, NDS, NES, SNES, N64, SMS, Genesis/Megadrive, PcEngine, PSX, Saturn, Dreamcast, Arcade, ...).
Modizer provides also high quality MIDI playback.
Minimum requirement is a device running iOS 15.6 or more.
Optimized for retina display.
Based on multiple high quality playback engines and using either the FTP server, the builtin WEB browser or the integrated Modland, HVSC & ASMA databases you can discover or listen again to the best music from the videogames (8/16/32bits era) and demoscene history.
Discover some real gems from famous people like Chris Huelsbeck, Jochen Hippel, Purple Motion, Lizardking, Audiomonster or Rob Hubbard, ...
Main features:
-Large compatibility (more than 1100 formats) thanks to multiple playback engines : Amiga and PC modules, Atari ST/Amstrad CPC, C64, Nintendo/Sega/Nec/Sony and even more ...
-Midi + Lyrics support (info screen).
-Direct internet access to Modland, HVSC, ASMA, VGMRips, P2612, Snesmusic, SMS Power collections & more.
-Built-in Web browser allowing FTP/HTTP downloads, bookmarks and support of ZIP,GZ,LZH & RAR archives.
-Built-in FTP server over WIFI connection : upload your music files with a simple FTP client.
-Airplay
-Playlists support.
-Archives support : zip, gz, lha/lzh, 7z, rar, rsn.
-Cover support (png/jpg/gif). Covers can be downloaded within Modizer using the webbrowser & "copy" image.
-Search function (in local files/playlists/Modland/HVSC).
-Rating & play counter of files.
-Multiple visualisations : Milkdrop presets, patterns, 2D&3D spectrums, oscilloscopes, ...
-Background playback & remote controller.
-Highly configurable behaviour.
Disclaimer:
Internet accesses to the Modland, HVSC & ASMA libraries are provided as an as-is service,
guarantee for availability and/or functionality is not given.
Use this application at your own risk.
more - bugfixes, security, performance and stability improvements
- DB updated as of 2026/03/12
- libsidplayfp updated to v3.0.0a
- AGC to normalize audio output level
4.4 14 Mar
bugfixes and stability improvements
4.3 9 Feb
- Radio mode for Online Collections (use the Radio button while browsing)
- Cloud source integration: iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox
- New online collections: AMP (Amiga Music Preservation), CGSC (Compute’s Gazette SID Collection)
- Database updates: HVSC #84, CGSC 1.47, ASMA & MODLAND (2026/02/03)
- CGSC cover art support for pic / pgg / pjj image files
- New FX layouts for easier combinations (long-press an FX to change slots)
- AdPlug updated to v2.4
- Gbsplay updated to v0.0.102
- UADE player routines updated to v3.05
- Drag & drop support
- UADE seek mode support
- JoshW online collection: automatic cover download from TGDB / MobyGames (long-press to force refresh)
- MIDI & Piano Roll FX auto-scaling option
- New playback engine: NEZPlug (SGC – Master System & Game Gear)
- libopenmpt: Amiga filter option
- Playlist improvements and bug fixes
- Faster seeking for most formats
- Improved tag handling (MP3, OGG, AAC, FLAC): automatic renaming in playlists, sorting (A–Z), and embedded cover art support
- Stability and security improvements
4.2 4 Feb
- improved localizations, add of japanese, spanish, german, russian, arabic, finnish, italian, portuguese, swedish, chinese (simplified), norwegian, danish, dutch, korean, polish, czech
- new playback library: Monkey Audio Codec (APE)
- better support of archive including m3u playlist data, specially pcengine archives from JoshW collections
- background mode improvement
- RSN archive: spc filenames replaced by title when available (in player view/archive entries selector)
- improved web browser home page
- updated DB with latest data (Modland, ASMA)
- various bugfixes and stability improvement
- security fix
4.1 20/12/2025
- Optimized FX engine now using Metal (all FX migrated/rewritten from OpenGL ES 1.0)
- New redesigned FX menu
- FX: ProjectM/Milkdrop support for a new dimension of music visualization (add you owns in ProjectM/presets and texture folders using Files app)
- Shortcuts and Siri support
- Playback librairies updated (libopenmpt, libxmp, ...)
- Music DB updated: modland, hvsc, asma
- Stability improvements
4.00 13/12/2025
- [DB] ASMA & MODLAND updated to latest version (2024/09/29)
- [DB] HVSC update to #81
- [BugFix] Archive file not stopping anymore if last file isn't playable (e.g. txt file at end of vgz archive)
- [BugFix] NSF infinite loop
3.11 01/10/2024
- [DB] ASMA & MODLAND updated with latest files
- [PLAYER] Several settings moved at global level (default length, silence detection, ...)
- [PLAYER] Endless playback mode improvement
- [PLAYER] Lazyusf: several bugfixes and improvements. Now generates data for oscilloscope and piano FX
- [ALL] Several bugfixes and stability improvement
3.10 16/06/2024
- [PLAYER] Now 1090 different formats supported
- [PLAYER] New player for ZX Spectrum & related hardware based on ZXTune with some improvements to cover also CPH (Amstrad soundtracker)
- [ONLINE] ZXArt added to collections
- [PLAYER] New player for WSR/Wonderswan, based on Oswan. Oscilloscope, piano rolls FX & playback speed supported
- [PLAYER] Better playback speed management for SID/Sidplayfp
- [PLAYER] SID/Sidplayfp updated to v2.7.0 and accuracy issue fixed (CW model forced to 'strong')
- [PLAYER] Timidity now supports infinite loop mode
- [UI] Preliminary physical keyboard support (including Mac M*)
- [UI] Integrated web browser: favorites management improved
- [DB] ASMA updated to latest version (2024/05/20)
- [DB] MODLAND updated to latest version (2024/05/20)
- [ALL] Several bugfixes
3.9 21/05/2024
- [UI] Playback ratio management now supports 0.05 steps
- [UI] Fixed an issue with some settings sliders
- [PLAYER] Lazyusf: issue with some files fixed
- [PLAYER] Timidity: issue with sf2 files not loaded fixed
- [DB] ASMA & MODLAND updated with latest files
3.8 12/05/2024
- [PLAYER] New player: FMPMini (based on 98FMPlayer) to support OVI, OPI & OZI files (PC-98)
- [PLAYER] UADE/XMP/OPENMPT improvements for notes gen data
- [UI] Crash bug when accessing the "now playing" playlist from player screen is fixed
- [UI] Settings: playback ratio now at global level (available for some plugins only)
- [UI] PB Ratio can now be controlled from "voices" screen
- [UI] some typo fixes
- [ALL] Several small bug fixes & improvements
3.7 09/05/2024
Lots of changes in this version, try the new piano roll FX and enjoy the better responsiveness and stability !
- [All] Bug fixes & stability improvements
- [FX] New Piano Roll FX
- [FX] Notes scroller FX improvements
- [FX] ADPLUG generates detailed oscilloscope output & notes data (Woody OPL3 only)
- [FX] ASAP generates detailed oscilloscope output & notes data
- [FX] STSOUND generates detailed oscilloscope output & notes data
- [FX] HVL/AHX generates detailed oscilloscope output & notes data
- [FX] LIBVGM generates oscilloscope output & notes data (not all emulation cores)
- [FX] MDX/PDX now generates oscilloscope output & notes data
- [FX] Timidity now generates oscilloscope output & notes data
- [FX] LIBKSS generates detailed oscilloscope output
- [FX] Several oscilloscope improvements
- [PLAYER] New player for Gameboy GBS file, GBSPLAY. Support oscilloscope FX & voices muting
- [PLAYER] migration from vgmplay to libvgm bringing support for S98, GYM & DR0
- [PLAYER] WebSID re-added following request. Now possible to choose default SID player between sidplayfp & WebSID
- [PLAYER] Issue with shuffle modes fixed
- [PLAYER] ADPLUG updated to latest version
- [PLAYER] LIBKSS updated to latest version
- [PLAYER] VGMPlay: NukedOPN2 options supported
- [PLAYER] VGMStream bug fixed / FFMpeg usage (opus file now working)
- [PLAYER] PMDMini now supports seek
- [PLAYER] MDX/PDX now supports seek
- [PLAYER] Timidity custom soundfont support: will load sf2 files present in same directory/archive as the mid files (trying first same name as the mid file and if not found, will take first one in same dir/archive)
- [PLAYER] PMDMINI bugfixes
- [PLAYER] STSOUND now support voices muting
- [UI] Downloads management improved, max queue is now 16384 and pending items are saved when exiting app
- [UI] Improved threads management to improve global application responsiveness
- [UI] Replaykit implemented to record video
- [UI] Searches are now regular expression based
- [UI] Local browser loading time optimized
- [UI] Settings updated, new section for default players
- [UI] Favorites management improved to select between songs & files
- [UI] Capacity to sort playlist by fullpath
- [UI] Capacity to save a playlist to a new one (create a copy)
- [UI] Playlist management improved and optimized
- [UI] New option to manage archive/multisongs files
- [DB] MODLAND updated to latest version (05/05/2024)
- [DB] ASMA updated to latest version (05/05/2024)
- [DB] Fixed some bugs in STIL data processing (HVSC, ASMA)
- [DB] MODLAND better management of secondary files for MDX/PDX & Euphony
- [DB] User stats management improved
- [DB] Online collection loading optimized
3.6 05/05/2024
- [PLAYER] SID player changed back for libsidplayfp and upgraded to latest version (2.6). WebSID removed (quality/compatibiltiy issue)
- [PLAYER] FFMPEG updated to version 6.0
- [PLAYER] VGMSTREAM updated to latest version (2024/02/24)
- [PLAYER] NSFPlay now support infinite playback mode
- [FX] Improved oscilloscope FX, better compatibiltiy with SID
- [FX] Improved Spectrum FX
- [DB] Modland 2024/02/23
- [DB] Asma 2024/02/23
3.5 24/02/2024
- [PLAYER] libopenmpt updated (01/02/2024)
- [PLAYER] New player: Eupmini to cover Euphony (FM-Towns)
- [PLAYER] New NSF player allowing oscilloscope view (NSFPlay)
- [PLAYER] New player: PxTone/Organya
- [PLAYER] New SID player allowing correct oscilloscope view (WebSID)
- [PLAYER] Fixed issue with SSF playback introduced in v3.3
- [GLOBAL] Basic iCloud support (Modizer folder visible in Files app and in iCloud folder in Modizer)
- [DB] Modland 2024/02/18
- [DB] Asma 2024/02/18
- [DB] Fixed issues with SMSPower browser
- [UI] Improved patterns display
- [UI] Better management when running in macos
- [FX] Improved oscilloscope FX
- [FX] Improved Midi & Piano FX
- [FX] Now Oscilloscope view can display channels names
3.4 19/02/2024
- [DB] HVSC #80
- [DB] Modland 2024/01/30
- [DB] Asma 2024/01/30
- [ALL] Fixed lha file crash
- [UI] Fixed crash on ipad / landscape mode when accessing player FX menu
- [UI] IPad split view support
- [PLAYER] ASAP update to latest version, 6.0.1
- [PLAYER] VGMSTREAM update to latest version
- [PLAYER] UADE/Updated musicmaker player
- [PLAYER] SC68 updated to latest version (3.0)
- [PLAYER] New player for ZX Spectrum PT3
- [PLAYER] New player for SNSDH (AtariSound)
- Several bug fixes
3.3 01/02/2024
- [DB] MODLAND updated as of 2022/06/06
- [DB] ASMA updated as of 2022/06/06
- [DB] HVSC updated to #76
- [ALL] Bugfix / archives management
- [FX] c352 support added for oscillo fx
- [FX] fixed an issue where last line of oscillo was sometime not visible
- [FX] SPC / slight improvement of oscillo fx
- [PLAYER] MSX/KSS file when infinite loop mode is active
- [PLAYER] VGMPLAY / fixed a crash issue when sample rate is null (fm.c)
- [PLAYER] SID/8580 volume boost fix
- [UI] display sid chip in info window
3.2 10/06/2022
- [UI] Carplay support (playlist based)
- [UI] Improved playlists management
- [UI] Volume bar adjustement for devices without physical home button
- [PLAYER] LibKSS added to improve MSX based format playback (KSS, ...)
- [PLAYER] Adplug/Rad bugfix for rad v1 file
- [PLAYER] SNSF bugfix / crash when changing to next subsong
- [PLAYER] PMDMini updated to latest version
- [DB] Better integration for JoshW, VGMRips, P2612, SMS Power! and Snesmusic repositories
- [DB] MODLAND & ASMA updated with latest version
- [DB] MODLAND auto downloading "lib" files for "miniXXX" files (minipsf, miniusf, mini2sf, ...)
- [FX] Fixed some issues / oscilloscope voices view
- [PLAYER] Fixed a bug when PMD (.M, .M2, .MZ) are compressed in an archive (zip, 7z, ...)
- [PLAYER] Fixed some bugs in UADE
- [PLAYER] Updated ffmpeg framework / code cleaning
- [ALL] Several Fixes / update of deprecated framework & stability improvements
3.1 08/06/2021
- [UI] New: Miniplayer view (swipe left or right to change songs, tap to access player and 'playing now' screens)
- [UI] Adapt to light / dark mode automatically (realtime)
- [PLAYER] New: SNSF support
- [PLAYER] New: V2M/V2MZ support - V2 synthesizer from Farbrausch demogroup
- [PLAYER] New: Highly Complete plugin for DSF,PSF,PSF2,QSF,SSF (AOSDK & SexyPSF removed)
- [PLAYER] LazyUSF now included in Highly Complete
- [PLAYER] New: FLAC support
- [PLAYER] New: VGMSTREAM subsongs support
- [PLAYER] New: Voices control support for some of the formats
- [PLAYER] New Oscilloscope view / individual channels for some of the formats
- [PLAYER] pattern view for XMP
- [PLAYER] LIBXMP updated to latest version
- [DB] Updated to latest versions
- [GLOBAL] Better compatibiltiy with older devices running on iOS 9 (4S, ...)
- [UI] Option to not recreate samples folder automatically
- [HVSC] Bugfix / title/name parsing from STIL DB
- [UI] Stability improvements
- [UI] Bugfixes / settings management
3.0 22/04/2021
- [PLAYER] bugfix in libsidplayfp when in infinite play mode
- [DB] Modland & Asma DB udpated to latest version
2.961 24/03/2021
- [PLAYER] libopenmpt updated to latest version
- [DB] ASMA: fixed link for default repository
- [PLAYER] subsongs management added for libopenmpt
- [UI] Downloads directory now automatically recreated at launch
- [PLAYER] liblazyusf updated to latest version, better playback speed accuracy
- [PLAYER] libvgmplay bugfix / infinite loop mode
- [PLAYER] libsidplayfp updated to latest version, libsidplay1 removed
2.9.6 21/03/2021
- VGMSTREAM: FFMPEG & Atrac9 support to improve coverage (at3, at9, xma, xwb, wma, msf, ...)
- Modizer folders now accessible through Files
- Bugfixes / UTF-8 encoding for non latin strings
- Bugfixes / Playlists management
- LazyUSF: bugfix / some files were playing too fast
- Allmods DB updated to last version
- Stability improvements
- UI improvements / volume bar & web browser
- SC68 player bugfixed / was broken in v2.9.4 following the upgrade to ARC model for sourcecode.
- VGMPLAY: new settings to choose between eng or japanese tags
2.9.5 01/03/2021
- HVSC #74
- ASMA 2021/02/14
- Modland 2021/02/14
- Files integration
- Archives can be extracted (right swipe on a file in local browser view)
- Adplug updated to lastest version
- VGMStream updated to latest version, lots of new format supported
- VGMPlay updated to lastest version
- SNES SNSF beta (not compatible with all dumps)
- MPTM format added (libopenmpt)
- Multiple stability improvements / bugfixes
- global code & project structure cleanup
- M1 Mac specific UI adjustement
- Number of support file formats: 1016.
2.9.4 14/02/2021
- HVSC #71
- Modland 2019/08/23
- ASMA 2019/08/23
- Multiple bugfixes
- Playlists performances & stability improvements
2.9.3 28/08/2019
- HVSC #70
- Modland 2019/16/01
- ASAP 4.0
- MP3 support
- VGMPLAY update
- GME update
- Minor bugfixes
2.9.2 01/02/2019
- [Bugfix] HVSC #68
- [Bugfix] About screen
- [Bugfix] File browser sorting issue
- [Bugfix] several minor fixes
v2.9.1 19/06/2018
- XMP updated to last version
- MODLAND DB updated to 2018/06/03 snapshot
- HVSC updated to #68 and mirrors updated
- Updated to use latest XCode & iOS devices
- [Bugfix] UADE / Kris Hatlelid format (require to redownload files from modland)
- [Bugfix] UADE playback on iOS 11
- [Bugfix] XMP infinite loop
2.9 05/06/2018
- bugfixes, security, performance and stability improvements
- DB updated as of 2026/03/12
- libsidplayfp updated to v3.0.0a
- AGC to normalize audio output level
more Version 4.4 14 Mar
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