Your bounces on your phone Being built
The mix you finished last night, already in your pocket this morning. Nothing to export, nothing to copy across.
A mix gets judged in the car, on cheap earbuds, on the kitchen speaker. Getting it to those places is the same chore every time: bounce it, plug the phone in, drag the file across, then lose track of which version you dragged.
The phone app skips the chore. It plays the bounces already sitting in your Vault backup, on Android and iPhone, under the same collections you use at the desk. You finish a mix, your studio backs itself up, and the track is on your phone.
It is part of the Sessions A&R + Vault subscription, and the app itself is a free download. It is being built and it is not out yet.
What it does
The real waveform, not fake bars
Sessions already measures the true shape of every bounce on your desktop, and that measurement travels with the track. The playing screen draws your bounce, not the generic dancing bars every other music app fakes. Drag anywhere on it to move through the track, with the time riding along under your finger.
A screen built to be filmed
Tap into post mode and the controls get out of the way: track title, collection, BPM and key, an unreleased marker, the moving waveform, and nothing else. It is the screen you point a camera at when you want to show people what you are working on, and it crops clean on a vertical recording.
Your library, filed the way you filed it
Your collections, and inside them your projects newest first. Each row carries what the desktop knows: the status you set with its own colour and emoji, your rating, BPM and key, how long it runs. Search across the lot. A project whose bounce has gone missing still appears, and says so rather than vanishing.
Works with no signal
Download a track to keep it, and the app also holds on to the last ones you played, up to a size limit you set. The tube, a plane, a basement with no bars: what you have been listening to is already on the phone. What it keeps is the plain bounce file. It is your own music and it is not locked up in anything.
Car stereo, lock screen, headphones
It plays in the background and answers the controls your phone already has: the lock screen, the button on your headphone cable, the buttons on the steering wheel over Bluetooth. Your car stereo does not need to know it is playing an unfinished demo.
It only ever reads
The app cannot change anything. It does not write to your Vault, rename a project, move a file or touch your library, and it never uploads. Losing the phone loses nothing, and you can cut it off from your account page on any computer.
How your music gets there
There is no second sync to set up and no other copy of your library anywhere. The app reads the Vault backup you are already running, so the thing that puts a track on your phone is the same thing that keeps it safe. Back up, and it is there.
Which also means the honest version: the phone shows your library as of your last backup. Leave the studio without backing up and the mix you just finished is not on the train with you. Sessions can back up on its own schedule, which is what keeps that from being a real problem.
Folders in your Inner Vault stay off the phone, by design. A folder you marked private is sealed on your own machine with a passphrase nobody else holds, so there is nothing anyone could stream to you even if you asked for it. Those tracks show as locked, and they open on the desktop.
If you stop subscribing, the music does not stop. You keep listening through the same window you keep restoring in: 30 days on monthly, a full year on yearly.
What it will not do
This is a listening app and it is meant to stay one. Saying so now is cheaper than disappointing you later.
- No editing from the phone. Ratings, statuses and notes are set on the desktop, where the library lives.
- No uploading and no recording. Nothing ever goes up from the phone.
- No labels and no demo submissions. Sending a demo is a desk job and the app deliberately keeps it there.
- No CarPlay or Android Auto screen. Car Bluetooth plays it already, which covers the case that actually comes up.
When
It is being built by one developer alongside the rest of Sessions, and it goes out when a subscriber can genuinely hold it, not before. The surest way to hear about it is the update list at the bottom of this page, the same one that announces real releases and nothing else.
The desktop app is free and works on its own today, with no account and no cloud. The phone app is part of the optional subscription, because streaming your studio needs a server, and that is the only thing here that costs money every month.