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ReleaseJuly 19, 2026

Build b1532v1.0.0-b1532

Kapell is now approved for App Store release and even allows 30-second previews of tracks if you don't have an Apple Music™ subscription. Artist pages are now surface where we have data and they cover everyone from rappers to engineers. We also fixed some bugs.

BUILD MANIFESTSTABLE · TESTFLIGHT
VERSION1.0.0 (1532)
MIN MACOS26.0 Tahoe
ARCHuniversal · arm64 + x86_64
ADDED3 changes
  • +
    Previews, without a subscription

    No Apple Music sub? No problem. Click an album or a song and get 30 seconds.

  • +
    Credits on artist pages

    An artist page now carries a Credits block, gathered from Kapell's own enrichment graph — what a person actually did across the records Kapell knows, folded by role. This is going to keep growing!

  • +
    Sleeve credits are links

    The producer, engineer, or featured player listed on an album sleeve is tappable now, and opens that person's artist page. A credit is a way into the catalogue, not just a line of text.

CHANGED4 changes
  • Crate playback has been improved. An acknowledged bug in macOS (`FB23707746`) caused mixed catalog and library queues to silentry drop songs. We've now got an overly complicated, segmented queue abstraction to handle that until a fix comes.

  • Preview playback no longer pauses between tracks — the whole tail is queued up front, so one preview runs straight into the next.

  • Your content-rating preference governs previews too.

  • Fixed some style differences in the Crate view, as it uses a different component.

FIXED2 changes
  • Sometimes now-playing art would jump a few pixels. De-janked that by allocating fixed space for the now-playing icons.

  • The Crate playhead no longer stutters as it moves down the list.