Hezel for Apple Music 4+

Hezel is a game changer for Apple Music Subscribers. It provides you with the simple ease of mind of always having access to your playlists and songs. If you ever delete a song, a playlist, or even an album from your Library, Hezel is there to come and rescue your Library from despair. You can save a lot of backups with Hezel, so if you want to restore your Apple Music Library from a time where your choice of music is completely different to the types of music that you listen to today, than you can do that. And the best part: you can see what your Apple Music Library looked like at a given point in time, before choosing to restore from that particular backup, so you can kind of visualize how your taste in music has changed over time. Also, if you have any feedback or run into an issue while using Hezel, you can reach out to the developer, as he is very responsive, and quickly addressed a critical bug that I reported within a few days of my bug report. On top of all that, Hezel also respects your privacy and collects the minimal data needed to operate, all of which is stored both on-device and synced via iCloud.

This app solves one of the most frustrating things in Apple Music. Especially for people who have used it for a long time and have songs that came from their personal library or songs that have been changed and modified overtime or from different albums overtime. My library was pretty messy with different versions of songs from different places and with all the changes that Apple has made over the years. I always want to clean up, but if you from your library, it deletes it from any playlist that you’ve made. This solves that you make it back up and then anytime you missing songs and then you just go in and recover and the app super easy.

If you’re like me, you may spend A LOT of time building your music library — playlists, albums — it can take a lot of work. Unfortunately, it is well known that Apple Music can (will) delete your library if you let payment lapse. Maybe your card expired, between jobs, whatever. I wasn’t fully sold on Apple Music until I found Hezel (formerly Rewind). It is a totally free app that you can use to manually back up your entire Apple Music library. Or pay a one time fee of $4.99 to set automatic backups. The app is easy to use, functions well, and is the only way I have found peace of mind that my sizable library is kept safe from Apple’s delete happy grip.