Xtunes - Music & Audiobooks
Immersive Offline Playback
Free · In‑App Purchases
Ready for the new iPhone Duo ;)
For the love of Cartunes
Xtunes is a local music player built around gesture-first control and an immersive listening experience. Inspired by the classic iPod and Cover Flow era, it brings album artwork, fluid gestures, and full-screen playback back to the center of your music library.
The app reduces the need for traditional buttons and deep menus. Playback, track navigation, library browsing, queue access, and artist or album detail pages are designed to feel natural through gestures. On iPhone and iPad, Xtunes adapts its interface to different screen sizes and orientations, presenting your music with large artwork, atmospheric visuals, and clean controls while helping you stay focused on the listening experience.
Xtunes also supports a full-featured audiobook experience, including resume playback, playback speed controls, and sleep timers. With support for lossless audio formats, you can enjoy your local music in high quality. On iPad, Xtunes can also transform into a dedicated standby-style listening experience.
Key Features
- Gesture-first music playback experience
- Immersive full-screen player interface
- Adaptive UI across different devices and orientations
- Local music library playback
- Lossless audio format support
- Full-featured audiobook playback
- Resume playback for audiobooks
- Playback speed controls
- Sleep timer for music and audiobooks
- iPad StandBy-style listening experience
- Browse songs, artists, albums, and playlists
- Jump from the current track to artist or album details
- Landscape Cover Flow album browsing
- Seek bar, previous, play/pause, and next controls
more Nice mini local music player. There are much places to improve but it is a good start.
Nice mini local music player. There are much places to improve but it is a good start.
Ready for the new iPhone Duo ;)
- Minor bug fixes
2.2.1 Sep 10
What's New
- Added the Lossless Music Pack for local APE, WavPack, and TTA playback. It is included with Lifetime License and can also be unlocked separately.
Improved
- Improved artwork loading, cold-start thumbnails, and alphabet-index responsiveness for large libraries, so newly visible tracks show their covers sooner after fast jumps.
- Reduced unnecessary license refreshes at launch and on foreground entry. Recently verified playback access remains stable for a limited period during brief offline or StoreKit interruptions.
- Refined motion and haptic feedback across the player, library, detail views, and song actions, including Reduce Motion behavior.
Fixed
- Improved queue, Lock Screen metadata, and remote-control stability when switching among system-media, local-file, and Lossless Music Pack playback.
- Fixed cases where Lossless cold restore, position recovery, or license resolution could lose the current track or overwrite a valid snapshot.
- Fixed feedback and gesture conflicts among long-press volume control, song-row actions, and page swipes.
2.2.0 Aug 19
What's New
- Now support 12 more languages: German, Spanish, Korean, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Thai.
Improved
- Refined the iPad wide-library Lab grouping and full-screen lyrics entry, keeping experimental features and the Sidebar Mini Player in clearer layers.
- When Reduce Motion is enabled, the main player, library, Cover Flow, Standby, sleep timer, and onboarding reduce spatial movement and looping animation.
- Improved progress bars, row swipe actions, Cover Flow edge resistance, press feedback for existing text targets, and artwork reveal timing.
Fixed
- Fixed a launch restore issue where main artwork and its reflection could fall out of sync and briefly show the default note or a black reflection.
2.1.1 Jul 31
We don’t want Xtunes on iPad to be just a simple enlarged version of the iPhone app, so this update focuses on improving the overall iPad experience. Xtunes now makes better use of iPad’s larger screen and window modes, while also preparing for more iOS device sizes in the future (hopefully ;).
Lifetime License users can now get early access to the brand-new Standby Mode. Think of it as your personal music screensaver.
What's New
- Introduced a brand-new adaptive workspace for iPad and larger windows: view the player and queue side by side, with library sidebar navigation and contextual details.
- Added an Experimental Features entry, allowing you to enable available experimental experiences on demand.
- Added a mini player to the iPad sidebar.
Improvements
- Tweaked the UI again after a little back-and-forth—yes, we noticed too.
- Improved layouts, safe area handling, and interactions across iPhone, iPad, portrait and landscape orientations, Stage Manager, and Dynamic Type.
- Improved cold launch performance for large music libraries.
- Improved gesture coordination between playback progress, volume, two-finger gestures, and page transitions to reduce accidental interactions.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the system media item, playback progress, and queue from the previous session could not be restored after fully quitting and relaunching the app, causing only the full library to appear.
- Fixed an issue where an empty state could incorrectly overwrite a valid playback snapshot during launch restoration.
- Fixed an issue where new refresh requests could be lost while refreshing the media library, and an issue where selecting a song from the system media queue could occasionally skip directly to the next track.
2.1.0 Jul 23
What's New
- A more capable audiobook player: local audiobook library, chapter queues, chapter-relative progress, Lock Screen and Control Center chapter sync, ±10-second skips, playback speed, sleep timer, and whole-book remaining time.
- Added the Extra page for license status, Lifetime License upgrade, Restore, and Privacy.
- Existing paid users are automatically migrated to Lifetime License without purchasing again.
Improved
- The library tabs are now ordered as Songs, Artists, Albums, Audiobooks, Playlists, and Extra.
- Audiobooks now focus on locally imported .m4b files and audio inside the Audiobooks folder, keeping music and audiobooks clearer.
Fixed
- Fixed seek behavior for some local audiobooks that could jump back to the beginning of the chapter.
- Improved library merging and license checks when opening audiobooks from the Files app, preventing the library from being replaced by only the opened file.
2.0.1 Jul 12
What's New
- A more capable audiobook player: local audiobook library, chapter queues, chapter-relative progress, Lock Screen and Control Center chapter sync, ±10-second skips, playback speed, sleep timer, and whole-book remaining time.
- Added the Extra page for license status, Lifetime License upgrade, Restore, and Privacy.
- Existing paid users are automatically migrated to Lifetime License without purchasing again.
Improved
- The library tabs are now ordered as Songs, Artists, Albums, Audiobooks, Playlists, and Extra.
- Audiobooks now focus on locally imported .m4b files and audio inside the Audiobooks folder, keeping music and audiobooks clearer.
Fixed
- Fixed seek behavior for some local audiobooks that could jump back to the beginning of the chapter.
- Improved library merging and license checks when opening audiobooks from the Files app, preventing the library from being replaced by only the opened file.
2.0.0 Jul 11
Improved
- Redesigned the Songs tab’s Play All / Shuffle actions as a lightweight part of the list instead of floating buttons, so they no longer cover song content.
- Letter indexing now follows the current language: in a Japanese UI, kanji are grouped by their Japanese reading (romaji), while other languages keep pinyin-based grouping.
- When tracks advance while Xtunes is in the background, on the Lock Screen, or behind another app, the main player, queue, Lock Screen, and Dynamic Island now stay in sync more reliably.
- Onboarding gestures now only respond on their intended pages, and the long-press volume gesture completes after either upward or downward movement.
- Improved first-launch and onboarding artwork loading to reduce waiting before the main player appears.
- Artists, albums, and playlists now load on demand for large libraries, reducing post-launch work.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where returning to the app could show the previous track with the progress bar stuck at the end.
- Fixed cases where Lock Screen, Control Center, or Dynamic Island metadata could lag behind after local playback advanced automatically.
- Improved media-library playback compatibility in some runtime environments.
- Fixed an issue where tapping a tab in landscape did not switch the list below.
1.1.4 Jul 1
What's New
- Added a My Favorites playlist. Double-tap the Now Playing screen to add or remove the current song from your favorites.
- You can now swipe left to remove songs from editable playlists.
- Local long-form audio and audiobooks now remember your playback position, so you can continue where you left off after reopening the app.
- Introduced a redesigned onboarding experience.
- Improved playback queue transitions between local audio and songs from your media library.
- Hid the status bar during launch for a smoother transition to the main interface.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented shared folders from being created.
1.1.3 Jul 1
New
- Added support for local .m4b audiobooks, with chapters expanding in the playback queue.
- The startup guide is now easier to use, with edge taps and swipe navigation.
- Local music playback now supports Lock Screen, Control Center, and headphone/Bluetooth controls.
Fixed
- Fixed unstable display after importing local music from the shared folder.
- Fixed display and queue issues after playing local .m4b files.
- Fixed the library index not reappearing after it hides.
- Fixed queue inconsistencies when appending or inserting tracks.
- Fixed the empty-state issue in Cover Flow hidden mode.
- Fixed the artist detail index behavior.
1.1.2 Jun 29
What's new
- Local music playback now supports system Lock Screen and Control Center playback info, including artwork, song details, and progress.
- Local music playback now works with headphones, Bluetooth devices
Bug fixed
- Improved the system-level background control experience for local file playback
- Fixed library indexing issues in Japanese environments
1.1.1 Jun 23
What's new
- You can now open supported music files from the iOS Files app with Xtunes.Files placed in the app's shared older are now picked up by the local library.
- Library sections now show subtle total counts at the bottom.
- First launch now includes a permission page that only asks for media library access needed for local music.
- Add startup guide
Bug fixed
- Fixed library index behavior so the index can reappear after scrolling.
- Fixed several library navigation and swipe gesture regressions.
- Album artwork in library lists is now displayed as a consistent square crop.
Known Issue
- Some flicker may still appear during library/detail swipe transitions. I'm working on that ;)
1.1.0 Jun 21
Ready for the new iPhone Duo ;)
- Minor bug fixes
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