Forte: Lossless Music Player
Your library in Hi-Res & Atmos
Only for iPhone
$4.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Somewhere along the way, playing music turned into being sold music.
Forte is the way back — a player whose entire job is to get out of the way. You already know what you want to hear. It just plays it, beautifully, at full fidelity, with the info your library deserves.
No algorithm sits between you and your music. Forte opens onto your own library every time: no feed to scroll, no recommendations, no "For You". Nothing here is competing for your attention, because your attention is supposed to be on the music.
WORKS WITH APPLE MUSIC
Sign in and your library is already there — albums, artists, playlists, genres, exactly as you've built it. Spatial Audio, head tracking is all supported as you would expect. Simply provide it access, and enjoy your library without compromising your experience.
YOUR OWN FILES, IN THE SAME LIBRARY
Add FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AIFF, & AAC files straight to Forte. Bootlegs, live tapes, out-of-print pressings, anything the catalog doesn't carry — they sit alongside your Apple Music songs in one library, one queue, deduplicated, shuffling together as if they'd always belonged there.
A SHUFFLE THAT ACTUALLY DIGS
Forte's shuffle is weighted by play count, favoring what you've heard least. Deep cuts surface. The same twelve songs stop winning. Reorder or reshuffle the queue on the fly in Up Next.
SIMPLE ENOUGH TO USE WITHOUT LOOKING
Everything you touch lives in thumb's reach at the bottom: Shuffle All, what's playing, the controls. Swipe sideways between library pages, swipe up for Now Playing. Nothing is buried in a menu, nothing worth doing is stranded in a far corner, and there's nothing to learn — you'll have the whole app in about a minute, and then never think about it again. The best interface for music is the one your hands stop noticing.
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE HEARING
A badge in Now Playing shows the format actually streaming this second — Lossless, Hi-Res Lossless, Dolby Atmos — not what the track theoretically offers. If Forte can't get real data, it shows nothing. It will never invent a number to fill a space.
CREDITS, ONE SWIPE AWAY
Swipe the album art and the record opens up: who performed, who wrote it, who produced and engineered it, where and when it was recorded. Tap a name to open their page and keep pulling the thread. This is the liner-notes reading you've been missing since the jewel case.
NEW RELEASES, ON YOUR TERMS
See what's out this week across everything, or only in the genres your library says you love. Hide any genre for good. Or switch on Crate Digging and flip through the releases like a stack of vinyl — sleeves packed tight, one tipping up to face you at a time. One record, your full attention, then the next.
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE
No account. No analytics. No advertising. No tracking. What Forte learns about your listening stays on your phone — and when you move to a new one, export it to a file and import it on the other side. Getting a new phone shouldn't cost you your history.
Pay once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no upsells — you bought a music player, not a relationship with a company.
Forte requires an Apple Music subscription to play your Apple Music library. Audio files you add yourself play without one. Apple Music is a trademark of Apple Inc.
Ratings & Reviews
• Search your library.
• Add songs and albums to Up Next from anywhere in your library or the catalog.
• Hide genres you don't want cluttering New Releases, now covering every genre in your library.
• Refined swipe gestures in Library.
• Refined New Releases / Catalog navigation.
The developer, William Bradford, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- William Bradford
- Size
- 6.7 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Sexual Content or Nudity
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 William Bradford
