Crankshaft
Music discovery that reads your taste, not your data
What it does
Crankshaft reads how you actually listen and surfaces songs that fit your real taste — deep cuts included — entirely on your device. No account, no tracking, nothing leaves your phone. Built solo, for Apple Music. A human in the loop instead of an algorithm guessing - and that human is you.
Crankshaft is a free, private music engine that learns from what you actually do. It runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad and collects nothing. Requires Apple Music.
A music engine that learns from what you actually do, not what you click. It runs entirely on your phone and collects nothing. Requires an Apple Music subscription. No account, no tracking, nothing leaves your device. Put your library on shuffle and you keep hearing the same fifty songs. Build a station and you hit its edge in two weeks. The tools that are supposed to open your taste quietly close it, feeding on what you already play until your whole world is a box. Crankshaft is built to fight that collapse. No surveys, no thumbs, no profile built about you. Just your real reactions, read as they happen. How hard and fast you turn it up tells Crankshaft what you love before you would think…from crankshaft.fm
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