Your bounces on your phone
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 cloud 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 Cloud + A&R subscription, and the app itself is a free download on the App Store and Google Play.
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 note at the moment, a link to listen
Hear something at 2:14? Leave a note right there while it plays, and it is waiting on the waveform in the desktop app when you sit back down. Want a second opinion? Make a listen link from the playing screen and send it: your friend plays the bounce in any browser, with no account and no download.
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 inside any collection. A project whose bounce has gone missing still appears, and says so rather than vanishing.
Sign in a computer with your phone
Signing in on another computer? Scan the square code on its sign-in screen with the app, check the card describing that machine, and press Approve. Scanning on its own approves nothing, so a photo of somebody's screen is not a way into your account.
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 never changes your library
The app cannot write to your cloud backup, rename a project, move a file or touch your library, and no file ever leaves your phone. Two small things do go the other way, and only when you press the button: a note left at a moment in a track, which is waiting on the waveform when you sit back down, and a link you make so someone else can listen. 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 cloud 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.
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 project notes are set on the desktop, where the library lives.
- No uploading and no recording. No file ever goes up from the phone, and the app records nothing. A note and a listen link are the only things it sends.
- 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.
Get it
The app signs in with the same account as the desktop app, and it needs one backup to have run before there is anything on it to play.
It is free to install, and playing your library is part of the Sessions Cloud + A&R subscription.
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.