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Describe a vibe. Get a station built around it.
Type something like “late‑night neon synthwave drive” or “smoky midnight jazz club” and AudioAtlas Radio builds a mix around it — then keeps building, for as long as you want to listen. This isn't a shuffled playlist: every track is chosen to follow the one before it, with a compatible tempo, a harmonically adjacent key and a gradual shift in energy, and the app blends them over three seconds the way a DJ would.
How it plays
Type anything, or pick from a map of some forty‑five curated vibes across five regions — Midnight, Daybreak, Motion, Stillness, Elsewhere. The station builds itself around it and never repeats a song. Open the app again and it offers to pick up where you left off.
Every track follows the last at a compatible tempo and a harmonically adjacent key, with the energy easing up or down rather than lurching. The tempo, key and energy of what's playing are on screen, and the queue shows where the mix is heading before it gets there.
Pick a country and hear what its artists are making right now. Country means where the artist is from — not the label, the language or the store — so a station from Japan is a station of Japanese artists, with the Filter control lit to say so.
Decide what the station may play and it holds from one evening to the next: AI music (everything, or leave out what has been identified as AI‑generated), artists (the whole long tail, or only those with a substantial following), and era — up to 1999, 2000–2019, or 2020 onwards. If a vibe is too narrow for your filters, the station leads with what matched and says so. AI‑generated tracks are marked in the corner of the artwork.
Five controls bend the station without stopping it: More like this, Energetic, Calmer, Surprise and Flip. Whatever is playing keeps playing; the change arrives with the next track.
The app takes its colour from the key of the track on air, placed on the circle of fifths — so as the mix drifts through related keys, the colour drifts with it. A dial around the artwork shows exactly where on the wheel you are.
iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch — and the Watch app streams on its own, no phone required. Playback continues in the background; lock screen, Control Centre and CarPlay controls all work.
Save any track to your Atlas and pin the stations you want back — they're yours whether or not you buy anything, and reachable from the playback screen. Any saved track can seed a new station built around how that recording sounds, not its genre label. Station pinning is on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
On iPhone, iPad and Mac, hold the device up and Shazam names what is playing around you, with a link to open it in Apple Music. If it finds no match, you can still ask for a station built from how it sounds.
Let the app listen for about twenty‑four seconds and it builds a station from how the room sounds. It doesn't name the song — it finds music that sounds like it. The clip is sent to AudioAtlas only because you asked, then deleted; nothing is kept.
On the Mac, pick a music file and get a station built from how that recording sounds. A short excerpt is sent, then deleted — the file itself never leaves your Mac.
Turn the session into an Apple Music playlist, added to as the station keeps playing — up to 60 tracks, or 100 once Unlimited Stations is unlocked. Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
Also on the Mac
No catches
Free to download, with five new stations a day and the whole app open — the vibe map, the globe, your Atlas, saved tracks and pinned stations are never gated. Unlimited Stations is an optional one‑time purchase that lifts only that daily limit; the music plays exactly the same with or without it. No subscription, no account.
Music is played from Apple: the 30‑second previews Apple publishes for its catalogue, and, for Apple Music subscribers, full‑length tracks through Apple's MusicKit. Every track links straight to Apple Music. A preview station runs for about thirty minutes, then offers to open the music in Apple Music. An internet connection is required.