Picky Music Player app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
1536 ratings )
Utilities
Music
Developer:
Charles Joseph
0.99 USD
Current version:
4.5.1, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 31 Jan 2012
App size: 7.63 Mb
“…a powerful music utility that is perfect for getting reacquainted with your favorite tunes.” — John Voorhees, MacStories.net
”…undeniably one of the most powerful and accessible general-purpose players available today.” — Marc Barrowclift, barrowclift.me
Featured in Macworld, MacStories, and Mac & i magazine, Picky is for people particular about their music, giving you full control over how you browse and listen to your albums and songs.
‣ Picky keeps your Artists and Albums lists uncluttered by hiding those with only a few songs – simply adjust the filters to taste.
‣ Queue up tracks to play later: simply swipe to the left on a song until the ‘+’ icon appears and turns solid orange, then let go to queue it.
‣ Use Picklists to quickly play (or queue) groups of songs – like playing an album without its bonus tracks.
‣ Easily sort the main Albums list and artists’ album lists with just a couple taps: by title, release date, duration, or by date added to your library.
‣ Picky lets you easily filter your Songs and Albums lists by genre (or by multiple genres). You can do things like quickly put together a mix by opening the filter, tapping on a few genres, and then closing it and tapping Shuffle.
‣ You can use the Artists and Songs filters to keep singles and one-hit-wonders tucked away, or bring them into focus when you really want to listen to them.
‣ Picky intelligently combines both grouping by artist and by album artist, so youll always find your songs where you expect them to be. But if you prefer just one of the groupings, you can easily change that with a setting.
‣ Quickly see the list of your currently playing songs by simply swiping up in the Now Playing view.
‣ Quickly search across your entire music library with just a few taps.
‣ Picky is designed for iOS 15 and supports widgets, Dark Mode, Split View, AirPlay 2, iPad trackpads, Context Menus, VoiceOver, headphone remotes, iTunes Match, and Apple Music that has been added to your collection. You can use Picky exclusively or seamlessly switch between it and the system Music app.
Picky: for listeners with refined taste.
Pros and cons of Picky Music Player app for iPhone and iPad
Picky Music Player app good for
I very rarely write reviews. A product has to be a real stand out to spend this amount of time. But this is important.
As quickly as possible I will tell you why this App is breed then the pre-installed iTunes "App".
Picky is like the older iTunes App. Its good! It does the job.
iTunes is terrible. It reroutes users to their store. They monopolize, manipulate and waste so much of a users precious time trying to get you to buy more music. Because they make money off of it.
The worst thing for any customer, is to have their product tied to the machine that uses the product with no limitations.
It creates bias, and complications when it comes to servicing the customer they PAYED already for both services/items.
I have been an Apple user and fan for 10 years now. But those days are over. They used to be the good guys, the underdogs, and PCs dominated.
Now that they have so much power, they abuse it and dont listen to their followers. The people who buy their products.
They are just a large corporate pig now. And the amount of money theyve cost me is sickening.
I would recommend staying far away from Apple, as they are only getting worse by the minute.
Unfortunately its too late for me. I learned on a Mac. I have tried to switch but have been unable.
And they abuse the power they have over their customers. Its pretty disgusting frankly.
iTunes sucks. Take it off your Dock on your phone and replace it with this App, or any others that are well reviewed.
(This helps, because then you dont hit iTunes by habit and you can used to an App that actual works, and doesnt send you to their store FOR NO REASON!)
Ugh, they are just the worst now
I was wandering about, wondering how I could organize my vast array of music in a comprehensive fashion, when alas! I happened upon this application and it proved to be the most wondrous way to listen to my collection of music. Henceforth I shall only use this application. Cheerio!
This is an excellent music app, its what Apples offering should be, but is not. Highly recommended, grab a copy, you wont be disappointed.
Picky is unique in its functionality to pick out individual songs. A simple, but very effective quality-of-life improvement! The dynamic player is also quite gorgeous.
Very nice stream-lined design. An excellent alternative to the built-in Music app, particularly if youre partial to listening/filtering songs by artist.
I use Picky every day — but then again, I built it, so Im a bit biased
Some bad moments
May 9, 2016--downgrading my review to 2stars or less. The app just stopped working today. No changes on my end. What a hassle and shame.
After getting a new IPhone SE, I almost gagged on how terrible the Music app has gotten. Picky quickly fixed that. Worth it for iPhone. The filter for only showing artists with a configurable number of tracks is brilliant.
Cons:
-Bottom menu should be customizable including audiobooks.
-Needs search box.
-Having an iPad version that costs more money is cheesy. This is a music player, cmon.
A fine app, highly recommended.
The app looks nice, but has crashed on me multiple times from selecting artists and back swiping from the player rarely works and instead get the zoom in effect of the album art instead. Will continue to use the default music player instead.
Loved this app but it wont open due to the latest update. Please fix!
Downloaded this and many other apps, both paid and free, to try to find an app that better displays and sorts music, and this one is BY FAR the best. I dont know how it works better than the native music app, but it does. Try it, you will not be disappointed.
Great app but wont be my main one simply because it does not Scrobble. Being able to favorite a certain song for Last.fm would be appreciated as well.
Its not flashy or fancy; it simply works and is what the native music app should be.
