Kanora / Ver 0.9 · Own Your Music · Est. MMXXIV

Native music library software

Rip your CDs. Keep your files. Play your music your way.

Kanora is a native music library app for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android. It helps you build and manage a collection you actually own, from ripped CDs and existing folders to vinyl and cassette captures. No subscription. No account. No rented catalogue.

See what Kanora does Why ownership matters

● CD ripping

● Metadata and artwork

● Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Watch, and CarPlay

● DLNA, AllPlay, and MiniDisc

How Kanora works

See how a CD in your hand becomes music playing anywhere.

See how Kanora works

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What I've been building.

Product notes, build logs, and the occasional wrong turn.

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Kanora for Android, built over my birthday weekend

On Wednesday night last week there was no Kanora for Android. There was a plan, committed at nine minutes past eleven, and an empty repository. By Monday a signed build was on my phone and on its way to the first testers. It browses and streams the library from my Mac, keeps its own library on the phone, plays Apple Lossless, and covers 70 of the 95 iPhone features listed in its plan.

6 October 2026Read entry

II · What You Can Do

Everything starts with your own music.

Rip CDs, import folders, fix metadata, record analog sources, and listen across the devices and speakers you already use.

CD ripping

Rip a CD, check the album details, choose artwork, and save the files into the folder structure you already use.

Metadata and artwork

Edit album details, track names, genres, and artwork with a preview before changes land in your files.

Experimental

Analog to AirPlay

Route a turntable or preamp through Kanora and out to any AirPlay speaker in the house. Still dialing in latency.

In Development

DLNA and AllPlay speaker support

Play your library through older DLNA and AllPlay-era speakers that still sound good.

In Development

Vinyl & cassette recording

Connect a turntable, tape deck, or line source, then record, split, tag, and save the result into your library.

In Development

MiniDisc support

Make MiniDiscs from your library with NetMD transfer where possible, or a clean line-out recording path when the deck wants to work the old way.

In Development

Apple Watch player

Control the iPhone from your wrist, sync selected music to the Watch, and play local albums without carrying the phone.

Your library stays yours

Your files stay where you put them. Your metadata stays under your control. No account, no tracking, no subscription.

III · See It

One library. Every screen you own.

In these captures the Mac holds the collection, and iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and CarPlay read the same library from it. The iPhone and iPad apps also work without a Mac, from music you import. These are captures of the current builds, not mockups.

Kanora running on an Apple TV, a MacBook, an iPad, an iPhone and an Apple Watch, each showing a different screen of the same music library.

A short walk through Kanora as it stands today.

Pick your device

What Kanora does on each screen.

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Mac

Apple Silicon and Intel Macs

First-class

Where the library lives: rip CDs, record vinyl, fix the details, and share it with your other devices.

iPhone & iPad

iPhone, iPad and CarPlay

Supported

A library of your own on the device, the Mac’s whole collection at home, and your albums in the car.

Apple Watch

Apple Watch, with an iPhone

In Development

Control the iPhone from your wrist, or sync music to the Watch and play it there.

Apple TV

Apple TV, with a Mac

In Development

Browse the Mac’s library from the sofa, then play on the TV or let the Mac play to your hi-fi.

Android

Android phones

Supported

A library of your own on the phone, and your Mac’s whole collection over your home network.

IV · Format Stories

Old formats. Good hardware. Still worth using.

Network speakers that still sound good

DLNA and AllPlay-era support helps older receivers and speakers stay useful instead of becoming abandoned hardware.

MiniDisc, properly welcome

NetMD transfer and line-out friendly playback give MiniDisc a clear place beside CDs, files, and analog captures.

Vinyl and cassette into your library

Record analog sources on Mac, iPhone, or iPad, then split tracks, edit metadata, and save the result with the rest of your music.

V · Why It Exists

A collection should survive service changes.

Streaming is useful for discovery, but it is a weak place to keep the only copy of music that matters to you.

Kanora gives local files, physical media, and older playback hardware a modern place to live.

Your files stay yours.

Kanora keeps your folder structure, filenames, and drive layout understandable. You decide where music lives.

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The details should be editable.

Fix album titles, track numbers, artwork, genres, and release details with previews before changes land.

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Good hardware should keep working.

Play through Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPlay, DLNA speakers, and AllPlay-era hardware as support matures.

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Music you bought should not need an account.

Kanora is built around local files, optional personal iCloud use, and no account requirement for your own collection.

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“Buy a CD, rip it, tag it properly, and play it on the devices you use now. That simple workflow should still exist.”

Ben Reed · Building Kanora