Six records with a reason to listen. Explore the context, put your reactions into words, and let what stays with you shape what comes next.
Discover records that connect with who you are.
You can hear almost anything now. But one album can blur into the next, and the music that moved you slips away. synff is an album-first music discovery app for people who want to find records worth sitting with, understand why they matter, and learn something about their own taste.
Start with artists you love. When you're ready to explore, request a Drop of six albums chosen with your taste in mind. Each comes with a reason to listen. It's a small stack to spend time with, not an endless feed to keep up with.
Find a way in
• Follow the artists that mean something to you in Rotation. They are a starting point, and you can keep adding to them as your taste grows.
• Open a record to read its story and follow connections between artists. Go deeper into the music that caught your ear.
• Search for an artist or album, identify music playing around you with Listen, or scan a record you come across.
Make room for the reaction
• Leave a note when a record moves you, even if you haven't found the perfect words for it yet.
• In Recap, return to the albums from your Drop. Mark what you liked, loved, bought, missed, or decided wasn't for you. The choices you confirm help shape later album recommendations.
• As those choices add up, your Fingerprint develops into a portrait of your taste, showing patterns in the artists and records you return to.
Keep what matters
Crate is for albums you own. Keep your physical record collection together, add a record when you buy it, or find a copy when one deserves a place on your shelf. If your collection is already on Discogs, you can import matched records into your Crate.
Follow a feeling further
Supporter adds Vibe Finder. Start from an album that interests you, describe what stays with you about it, and follow that feeling to another record. It's a way to be curious about music and land somewhere surprising.
A Drop is yours to explore at your own pace. Keep your current one for as long as you like. One future Drop credit returns each Monday until your account is full: free accounts can hold one, while Supporter accounts can hold four. The full Drop, Recap, Fingerprint, and Crate experience is available without Supporter.
Listen in the service you prefer. synff opens music there through a link; it doesn't play music itself or need access to your streaming account.
There are no in-app ads to remove. We do not sell your personal data or give advertisers access to your taste. What you choose to keep, say, and share about music should stay yours.
Very cool concept and the app works very well so far. A couple things I would change is one, even though I have some artists and albums from before the year 2000 in my crate and rotation, I never really get recommended stuff from before 2015 even. so I would maybe try and change that but also maybe it just doesn’t know my taste well enough yet. One more feature that would be cool is maybe make an option to choose what your favorite song was in the recap. I’ve had a lot of albums where I clicked “not for me” or “liked it” but I really liked one song and I want to hear more of that sound. Anyways other then that this app is great and with more updates and features I could see this becoming one of my favorite apps on my phone.
Developer Response
Hi,Thanks so much for your feedback! I actually took a lot of it on board when building V2 (it’s out now btw). I have extended the catalogue back to 1965 and expanded it fairly significantly, so you should be seeing more stuff coming through soon. I also wanted to clarify that synff tries to match you with albums we think you're going to find interesting. We don't generally limit recommendations to a specific era, but the recs are likely going to improve based on feedback over time. Also, the favourite song feature sounds really rad! I will definitely look at adding it in a future version, so watch this space!
Update. We'll see how it goes.
cuethevoid
I can't get beyond the selecting artist bit, 'cause it seems I can't select an artist through the search.EDIT: I see where I went wrong. Add AJR I beg of you. And make it more clear that some artists cannot be selected, maybe just... Remove them from the search feature in the beginning?EDIT 2: it seems they just do it automatically, and quite fast. This looks good so far! I can't wait to see more!
Developer Response
Thanks so much for the review! Glad you found your way in the end but please feel free to reach out with any questions in the future.A short explainer: if an artist isn’t in synff yet you can request them and we will automatically integrate them and notify you once they are in.
synff 2.0 gives you more room to listen closely. Request a Drop of six albums chosen with your taste in mind, then take as long as you like with them. Each record comes with a reason to listen. Leave a note while the feeling is fresh; return to Recap to shape future Drops. Fingerprint reveals patterns in your taste.
Supporter is new, too. Follow a feeling from a record with Vibe Finder, and hold up to four future Drop credits.
The core discovery and reflection experience remains free.
Version 2.0.1
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