Melon Music

Melon Music rethinks what should a local music player should be. It is designed to be a minimalist, refined and singular experience free from bloat and distractions.

An elegant canvas for your personal curated library, add external folders and files directly without copying, and be assured they will never be modified. Entire folders can be disabled or enabled to swap out parts your library on the fly.
It focuses only on what's playing, and what's upcoming, all accessible with a minimum number of gestures. Sort and manage your library, create playlists on the fly all with significantly less overhead than other applications.
You won't be forced to name a new playlist. You can shuffle even when the playlist is empty. Play all songs, or play any number of playlists at once, with a single tap.

Melon Music has many Japanese-specific sorting features, it supports sort tags commonly used for Japanese music. For files that don't have sort tags, it features a built-in lookup table which you can fill in effortlessly leveraging on-device and third party AI*. For example an artist only needs to be sorted once to work with all existing and future songs.

Unlock customization options through an in-app purchase, which features custom accent color and background images, with beautiful gradient options to assist with readability.
There are also extensive options to remove some of these features from the app for completely streamlined personal experience.

Features:
-Simply tap any song to play, or if one is already playing, it will be played next, safe from interruptions.
-The persistent playlist can be easily saved, shuffled or cleared.
-Timer to stop after set number of songs.
-Quick shuffle randomly picks a few albums to play.
-Regret button when changing songs during play.
-iPad exclusive multi-panel interface rather than enlarged iPhone interface.
-Surface most common Chinese characters to scroll index for easy access.
-Sort Kana as Romaji or by 50 Kana order.
-Sort Chinese characters by Pinyin order.
-Exported Japanese kanji reading guide can be filled in by any frontier AI models in one simple inquiry.
-It is possible to sort Chinese and Japanese correctly at the same time by utilizing sort tags for Japanese, and pinyin for the rest.

*Apple Intelligence requires iOS 26 and compatible device, model performance depends on iOS version and device. The user is required to query a third-party AI provider on their own, Melon Music does not communicate with any remote devices or services.