Everything you need to build a music library you control.
Rip CDs, import existing folders, fix metadata, manage artwork, digitise analog sources, and play your collection across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPlay, and older network speakers.
What Kanora does, and what is still being built.
Each feature shows a plain status: ready, experimental, or in development.
Recording brief
A tour of the app at its own pace: browsing the library, filtering by format, beginning a rip, making a metadata edit, and routing playback to AirPlay. No guided narration. Just the app doing its job. The goal is for someone to come away with a clear sense of what it feels like to use Kanora day to day, before they dive into individual features.
CD ripping
CD imports include MusicBrainz lookup, artwork fetching, release selection, duplicate warnings, and multi-disc handling.
Metadata and artwork
Track, album, artist, and bulk editors help you clean up a collection without blind automatic changes.
Analog to AirPlay
Live input monitoring with device selection and routing, aimed at letting a physical source move through the same playback system as the rest of your library.
DLNA and AllPlay speaker support
DLNA, UPnP, and AllPlay-era speaker support helps useful network audio hardware stay in your setup.
Vinyl & cassette recording
Recording sessions that start from a live source and end as tagged library entries, with enough metadata and import structure to make them feel native once captured.
MiniDisc support
MiniDisc support gives NetMD, decks, portables, and manual recording workflows a clear place inside a modern library app.
Apple Watch player
Apple Watch support covers companion control, Watch sync management from iPhone, local playback from Watch storage, Cover Flow browsing, and Now Playing complications.
Your library stays yours
A product stance that treats music as something you can keep, organise, move, lend, and live with over time rather than as a temporary entitlement granted by a service.
From disc, folder, or source to something you can play.
Get music in
Rip a disc, import an existing folder, or capture a live source without losing track of where the files belong.
Keep it tidy
Review metadata, choose artwork, fix duplicates, and see what is on device, in iCloud, or on an external drive.
Listen where you are
Play through Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPlay, and older network speakers as support matures.
Formats and hardware worth saving.
Kanora makes room for DLNA speakers, AllPlay-era multi-room gear, MiniDisc recorders, turntables, tape decks, and simple line-out recording chains.
DLNA and AllPlay-era speakers
Bring older network speakers and receivers back into use when the hardware still sounds good.
MiniDisc and NetMD
Use NetMD transfer or a clean line-out recording path for a format most modern music apps ignore.
Vinyl and cassette recording
Record analog sources, edit the details, and save the result as part of the same collection as your CDs.
Local files
Your music remains visible as files and folders you can back up, move, and understand.
No account required
Kanora does not need an account to play music you already own.
Clear file presence
See whether a track is on device, in iCloud, on an external drive, or not downloaded yet.
One purchase
Kanora is planned as a one-time license, with no subscription tier standing between you and your library.
The next layer is about the places you listen.
These are planned product stories: room control, listening history, year-end recaps, companion listening mode, and offline playback from your wrist.
Apple TV as the room controller
PlannedPut the Mac host in the hi-fi stack, then control playback from a full-screen Apple TV interface built for the room. Browse the host library on the TV, send audio through the Mac and speakers, or stream from the host to the Apple TV and use whatever the television is connected to.
Listening stats everywhere
PlannedKanora is being shaped so listening events can be captured across Mac, iPhone, iPad, CarPlay, Apple TV, Watch, and compatible companion modes. The goal is a useful history of what you actually played, not just what a subscription service happened to count.
End-of-year listening recaps
PlannedA yearly recap for people who own their music. Albums, formats, artists, long sessions, rediscoveries, road-trip records, vinyl nights, CD months, and the strange little listening patterns that only make sense when the stats belong to you.
Listening companion mode
PlannedPut the iPhone app into listening mode during a vinyl or CD session and let it identify what is playing in the room, then keep your stats going while you disconnect from the screen. Physical listening still counts.
Apple Watch offline listening
In DevelopmentA full Kanora companion on your wrist. Sync selected albums, playlists, and tracks for offline runs, hikes, commutes, and places where taking a phone breaks the spell.
In active development. Early access coming soon.
When it launches, it will be a one-time license with no subscription. Follow progress in the dispatches.