homecrate - Player & Studio

A truly mobile DAW with 4 tracks free, piano roll, warp markers, a NAM amp, a drum machine, a synth, and a channel of hardware MIDI. Pro is the rest: unlimited stem separation on-device, audio to MIDI, expanded tracks to 16, a spatial mix, and the VST3 plugins on your Mac, a Performance Mode, $9.99, once. No subscription, no account.

A 4-TRACK DAW IS FREE
Four audio tracks, two MIDI tracks, and a master bus. Piano roll, step sequencer, warp markers, slicing, crossfades, and automation. USB-C or Bluetooth MIDI, with clock sync. A new song asks for a key and a tempo you can tap. A take stopped by a call, another app, or an unplugged cable is kept. Closing the recorder mid-take saves it.

95 tunings for guitar, bass, lap steel, and pedal steel, including E9 and C6, checked against John Ely's list and the Papa Dafoe database. Metronome with swing and accents.

NAM amp with 10 profiles and a PRE stage, dual-oscillator synth with MPE, a 16-pad drum machine, vocal chain, dynamic EQ with sidechain, Grain, and HC Crate, a patcher with 109 modules. Your own presets, profiles, and IRs are Pro.

LEARN THE SONG. PRO
On-device stem separation, 4 stems or 6 with a dedicated guitar stem. Unlimited, offline, no account. Stems land on tracks in time. Mute a part and play it. Audio to MIDI turns a vocal or a solo into editable notes.

PERFORMANCE MODE
Beside the recorder. Monitor through the NAM amp and stack what you play onto looper layers while the clock holds. Start from a drum loop or a stem. Up to 10 layers. Scratch one layer's disk. Let go and it locks back to the beat. Send the sketch to the recorder as an arrangement, plugin chain included.

On iPhone Duo the recorder follows the fold. In tabletop, a keyboard and the faders fill the lower half, and transport stays on the upper half.

THE AMP
Neural Amp Modeler A2. Dynamics morph two profiles or two cabinets. Pro loads any .nam or cabinet IR, and trains a model on the phone from a capture of your amp (A14, M1, or newer). Capture an IR of a cabinet or a room and use it instead of the amp reverb. The screen shows the amp, the IR, and the effects in order.

RECORD IT. PRO
16 audio and 8 MIDI tracks. Each input of one interface can record to its own track in one take. Section markers change tempo, meter, and MIDI. Voice control. Theory chat returns MIDI in the song's key and tempo. Live looper with overdubs, retrigger, and a footswitch. Over Wi-Fi, a bandmate's take lands on your timeline in time.

Import a loop into the clip drawer once and use it on any track, in any project.

YOUR PLUGINS. PRO
A free Mac companion hosts your VST3 and Audio Unit plugins. Audio, MIDI, and tempo run both ways, and every parameter can be automated. Four AUv3 inserts per track for chords, arpeggios, or a sequencer.

FILM IT. PRO
Video of the take, with the mix in the file. 84 stacked effects that can react to your playing. Preserve Me and Preserve Instrument leave you and the guitar clean. Your own ISF, Shadertoy, or p5 sketch. Stream to a Mac or a projector. Hand poses become MIDI.

SPATIAL. PRO
A 3D mixer with position automation, and APAC export on iOS 26, with video. Mix down to the library, or share the whole project as one file.

THE PLAYER
A library for the files you already own. FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, and AAC, with line-synced lyrics, bios, and band members. An algorithm you set yourself, widgets, and CarPlay. Pro adds word-by-word karaoke, questions about your library, and Plex.

PRO IS $9.99, ONCE
Stems, audio to MIDI, tracks 5 to 16, eight MIDI tracks, voice and theory chat, your presets and NAM profiles, on-device training, cabinet and room IRs, VST hosting, gesture control, video, the spatial mix, and Plex. One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. No renewal. The free download is a finished 4-track DAW.