A music player for the albums you own. Open a record, press play, and hear it front to back, the way it was sequenced. No feed, no algorithm, no subscription.
Two-week free trial. Requires macOS 26 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. Version 3.23 · Release notes
Album first
Streaming apps are built to keep you scrolling. MiniMoon is built around the album: covers you browse like a shelf, pages that give each record its credits and its numbers, and playback that starts at track one and keeps going. Your files stay where you put them, tagged the way you left them.
The album page
The cover and credits sit beside the track list, so a long album never pushes its artwork off the screen. Year, genre, composer, and label are links: click the label and you are looking at everything else you own from it. Underneath, the whole record in one line: running time, size, sample rate, and bit depth.
Nothing to decide
Discover deals your library out one album at a time, cover first. Flip through with the arrow keys, narrow it to an artist, genre, or label, and play whatever stops you. Or roll the dice with Play Random Album. The records you forgot you owned come back around.
Collections
A collection can hold a handful of tracks or forty whole records. Show it as a track list, or as a wall of covers you browse like the rest of the library.
Tag editor
Spot a wrong year or a missing cover halfway through an album and fix it on the spot. The editor works across every supported format, steps through the track list from the keyboard, and finds replacement artwork without a trip to the browser.
Search
Results arrive as you type, grouped into albums, artists, composers, and tracks, with each track's format and bit rate beside it. Albums come first, because that is usually what you were looking for.
Mini player
Shrink MiniMoon to a small window with the cover, the controls, and search. Line up the next record without leaving whatever you are working on.
iPhone and iPad
The same covers, the same album pages, playing straight from the phone with no connection. Free to download and play your whole library; a one-time unlock adds tag editing, the equalizer, and Discover.
MiniMoon Sync
MiniMoon Sync copies your library from your computer to MiniMoon on iPhone or iPad over your home network. No cable, and no cloud locker in between. It runs on Windows too, so a PC full of FLAC works as well as a Mac.
Reviews
4.5 out of 5 from 45 ratings on the US App Store
★★★★★
If you're bored with endless playlists of flighty tunes, and just want to reconnect with your own albums, this is for you.
★★★★★
The best iOS local music player there is. The Mac app is equally excellent. Helpful and responsive developer; fair one-off pricing.
★★★★★
The most convincing reason to me though is that you don’t have to worry about an arbitrary service agreement that might have “your music” being gone one day.
★★★★★
So far, I’ve tested over 16 FLAC player apps, all of which had numerous shortcomings and missing features. That’s where MiniMoon comes in…
★★★★★
It is also clearly designed by someone who loves music. The support of the opus codec, the last.fm integration, the focus on albums… and the statistics are wonderful.
★★★★★
I use it every day and I’ll never go back to a streaming service!
And also
The smaller things that add up over years of listening.
FAQ
No. MiniMoon for Mac is a one-time $25 purchase with a two-week free trial. On iPhone and iPad it is free to download, with a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the full version. There are no recurring fees, and you do not need an account.
Tag and artwork editing, the equalizer, the Discover feed, the file and track browsers, and a customizable layout. Browsing and playing your whole library is free.
The ones collectors tend to keep: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, Opus, and AIF, all played and edited in place.
No. MiniMoon Sync runs on Mac and on Windows. Point it at your music folder and MiniMoon on your iPhone or iPad copies the library over your home network.
Always. Your music and its tags live on your device, nothing streams, and MiniMoon collects no data about what you play.
MiniMoon for Mac requires macOS 26 or later on an Apple silicon Mac (M1 or newer).
Try it today
Try MiniMoon for Mac free for two weeks, then pay $25 once to keep it. On your phone it is free to download, with a one-time unlock.
