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Meet the band.
A deeper way to play the Apple Music® library you already have — credits, samples, and history surfaced as the music plays, off the algorithm and out of your way.
Uses your existing Apple Music subscription.
A better place to listen.
Quiet by design. Hand-built Crates that stay out of your Recently Played, and a listening log that lives on your Mac and answers to you. A player worth keeping before it looks up a single credit.
Your Apple Music
Plays through the subscription and library you already have. Nothing to migrate, nothing to give up.
The story
Who played, who produced, what it sampled — surfaced as it plays, every source cited.
Signal path
Honest instrumentation: rates, depths and stat readouts showing your sound and data quality experience.
Crates
Sessions you build and flip through — focused, and out of your Recently Played.
Stations
Play all your existing stations, and make new ones any time.
Listen Log
A private record of what you play — synced across your Macs via iCloud, and yours to read. Scrobbling optional!
Lossless, as delivered
Plays the lossless and hi-res your Apple Music® subscription already includes — nothing re-encoded, nothing downgraded, straight through the system.
AirPlay to the room
Send playback to the AirPlay speakers, receivers, and TVs you already have around the house.
Private by default
Everything you play and log lives on your Mac and syncs through your own iCloud. Nothing profiled, nothing sold back to you.
The people behind the song, without leaving the song.
Producers, writers, the players in the room. Kapell pulls the credits while a track plays — the liner notes, brought back to the song they belong to.
Track, album, artist — every one gets filled in.
Whatever you've landed on — the song playing, the album it lives on, the person who made it — Kapell pulls what's known and cites it. Credits here, a little history there, and even samples.
Crates are stacks you build and flip through.
Open a Crate and Kapell goes quiet — search and nav fall away, and it's just you and the next track. A Crate is a hand-built set you move through on purpose: listening as something you do, not something that scrolls past.
See how far you've come and how much is left — listening with a shape, and a finish line when you want one.
Crate plays stay out of Recently Played
What you play from a Crate stays out of your Apple Music Recently Played. Build a Christmas Crate, or let the kids run Baby Shark three thousand times, and your Recently Played stays exactly as you left it.
Your call, per Crate
Whether a Crate writes to your Recently Played is a switch you flip — leave it off to just listen, turn it on when you want those plays to count.
Build it your way
Add whole albums or single tracks, reorder them, and shuffle the Crate when the mood takes you.
Try the canon
Work through the Rolling Stone 500front to back without filling up your Recently Played.
A dim room, one warm light, and live readouts.
The look is borrowed from hi-fi — the dim room, the warm indicator, the rack of readouts. But there's no exotic-hardware story here, nothing you can't already reach. It's the Apple Music you already pay for, treated with hi-fi care: the real signal path, the bus, the enrichment cache — live readouts of what the app actually knows, resolved to the best your setup allows.
The only algorithm worth running is yours.
Kapell keeps a Listen Log on your Mac — what you played, when, how often — and turns it into a dashboard that's yours to read, not a profile sold back to you. It syncs across your Macs through your own iCloud, and never touches Kapell's servers.
Private by default. Your listening history syncs through your own iCloud and never touches Kapell's servers — and even enrichment looks up music, not people: it matches tracks to credits, it doesn't build a profile of your taste or sell data to anyone.
Buy it once. Own the whole thing.
No subscription. No meter. No per month, forever. The player, your listening, and the full enrichment layer are a single purchase you own — not a rental.
- —The full player, yours forever
- —Hand-built Crates that stay out of your Recently Played
- —Listen Log & dashboard, private and synced via iCloud
- —Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz
- —Enrichment — credits, samples & history, cited — included, not billed monthly
Some listening apps bill you every month, forever. Kapell you buy and own — no subscription, no meter. Down the road a big new version may be a paid upgrade, the way good Mac software always has been; you keep the one you own either way. Final pricing comes when it leaves beta.