Wherever the music is coming from — a DJ, a bar, a party, someone
else's aux — start Catchy when it starts. It listens
along and names what it hears, hour after hour, and is honest about
the bits it couldn't. Afterwards the whole thing is yours: a tracklist,
a timeline of what played, and a card you can send your friends.
Shazam catches one song. Catchy catches everything that played.
Capturing a set, reviewing it and sharing it stay free. Always.
Catchy Pro adds Insights, Apple Music export and capture with no signal.
Tap the disc for any song you have to have — that's
the one it answers on the spot, and it works straight from the lock
screen without unlocking. In between, leave the phone where it can
hear and it keeps adding what it can pick up on its own. Anything it
can't name is still marked, with the moment saved, so nothing
disappears quietly.
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32 songs caught
♪In This Bih' — still playing
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In This Bih'
Chris Lorenzo & Kah-Lo
1:31 AM
palm of my hands (Odd Mob Remix)
John Summit & venbee
1:26 AM
car crash
jigitz
1:19 AM
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It keeps going with the screen off. Lock the phone, use other
apps — the set keeps running, and it says so on your lock screen. Film a
video and the camera takes the microphone, so the set parks itself and
picks back up when you come back.
There's a Catch now button on the lock screen. Hear something
you need the name of, press it without unlocking, and about ten
seconds later it has an answer.
No signal is fine.Pro It keeps collecting and names everything
the moment you're back online — No service — still capturing. Capture with no signal is part of Catchy Pro.
When it misses, it says so — too muffled to name — try it out of your pocket
— instead of pretending it heard nothing.
step 2 · whenever you get to it
Settle the maybes in a minute.
The sure things are already in the playlist. For everything it was
only half-sure about, you hear the exact seconds your phone
caught and keep it or drop it — or hit
Keep all and be done.
Moments it couldn't name are tucked into
Unknown at the bottom,
honestly labelled, with the clip kept in case you want to hunt the ID
later.
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Saturday
Public Records
Jul 18
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Length
3h 50m
Confident
29
Needs review
6
Unknown
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10:20 pm2:10 am
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car crash
jigitz
1:19 AM
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Pressure (Extended Mix)
Kolter
12:44 AM
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Wake Me Up
Avicii
11:58 PM
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Confident29
In This Bih'
Chris Lorenzo & Kah-Lo
★1:31 AM
palm of my hands (Odd Mob Remix)
John Summit & venbee
☆12:58 AM
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Nothing is thrown away quietly. A skipped song stays on the
card, greyed out, and you can bring it back with one tap.
It flags its own mistakes. A one-off ID inside a song it
already knew is marked
skipped by Catchy
and left out — labelled, not hidden.
Wrong song? Tap the row to open it and tap
Not this song?
Search instead to put the right one in its place.
step 3 · the set, kept
Everything that played, in order.
Each session becomes a set: the tracklist in order, a timeline you can
drag a finger across to see what was playing when, and the ⋯ menu
carrying the verbs as words — including
send a set
straight to your own Apple Music library, once the set is
reviewed. That one is part of Catchy Pro. Every song you keep lands
in your library on its own, with the set it came from still attached.
The ★ is for the ones that were the night.
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Public Records
Jul 18|★ 4
🎧🐞You & @maddie
Length
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Songs
35
Unknown
3
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In This Bih'
Chris Lorenzo & Kah-Lo · 1:31 am
10:20 pm2:10 am
Songs35⌃
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Wake Me Up
Avicii
★11:58 PM
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palm of my hands (Odd Mob Remix)
John Summit & venbee
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car crash
jigitz
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In This Bih'
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Apple Music export, and it's yours.Send a set straight to your own Apple Music library.
Catchy asks for permission once, and it needs an Apple Music
subscription on the phone. It's part of Catchy Pro.
Spotify is one tap, not one more account. Any song or artist
opens in Spotify — nothing to connect, nothing to sign in to.
✦ Insights — the story behind the song.Pro Tap anything you
caught and Catchy tells you
who the artist is, where the song came from, and what to hear next.
Three free every month; no limit with
Catchy Pro.
Drag along the timeline and a chip follows your finger naming
whatever was playing at that minute. Tap the bar instead and the list
opens and jumps to that song.
Add or remove a song at any point — while the set is still
running, or months later. Wrong name? That gets settled in review (step 2).
step 4 · for the group chat
Proof you were there.
Every set renders a card — the venue, the length, the timeline of what
played, your rating, and how many moments stayed a mystery.
Send the card, or send the link — the link opens the
whole set for anyone, no app and no account. The card even prints the
address, so a screenshot is still a doorway. Like a Strava run, but
for the music.
CatchyJul 18–19, 2026
Public Records
3h 50m · 35 songs · 3 still unknown
★★★★☆
10:20pm2:10am
♪ Wake Me Up · palm of my hands (Odd Mob Remix) · car crash · In This Bih' · Pressure (Extended Mix) · Sweet Harmony · Losing It · Bad Habit…
share.joincatchy.com/s/7f2k9
Three ways out — share the card,
share the link, or straight to
an Instagram story.
It survives midnight. A set that runs past 12 belongs to the
day it started on — in your library, in the list, in the name. The card
names both dates, so nobody has to guess which night it was.
The card is made on your phone, and it goes nowhere until you
send it.
with the people who were there · in the app today
Sets are better shared.
Add friends by @handle or a link, and a set stops being
just yours. Friends see what you caught, react and comment on it, and
a set you were both at names the people who were there.
Anyone you send the link to can open the whole set —
no app, no account.
the friends tab
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This week
Knockdown Center
JoinedFri · 2h 12m · 31 songs
Songs
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You're in — find it in your Sets
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Both of these are the app as it ships. The Friends tab is where people
arrive and where their sets land; the bell is what they did with yours.
Add a friend by @handle, by code, or by link. Search a username and
tap Ask to connect, trade
codes in person, or send a link — whoever opens it can ask from there. With a table of
people, start a room: one code for
everyone, and it closes itself in fifteen minutes.
Who was there is part of the set. Add the people you're with —
from the live screen while it's running
(Who's with you?) or from the
set afterwards (Who was there?).
They get the set as it's caught,
and their copy wears Joined.
A finished set goes to your friends on its own — the tracklist,
the times, and what you called it. Catchy stops and asks the first time it happens, there's a
switch for it, and any single set can be un-shared from its own ⋯ menu
(Stop sharing with friends).
Unshare sticks: it goes from their app, and it stays gone.
Reactions and comments, and a bell that says who.Activity groups what happened into
Today and
Earlier, each row wearing the face of the person
who did it. Names, never a count.
A link anyone can open. A shared set is a page at
share.joincatchy.com — the tracklist, the timeline, the stars you gave it — and
anyone
with this link can see it, no app and no account. Revoke it and
the page goes dark.
anytime · you
No bio. Your stats are the profile.
Sets, songs, hours caught, favorite songs — accumulating on their own
while you listen. It is one page: what a friend sees, with your
settings under it. The ⋯ menu shares the numbers as a card when
one of them starts to look ridiculous.
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Catchysince May 2026
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27Favorites
live music captured
Catchy Pro · the paid tier
Small, and it says so.
The app is free and stays free. Catchy Pro is one
subscription on top of it — Insights, Apple Music export, and capture
with no signal — from the App Store, starting with a free trial.
What's free is free for good.Capturing a set, reviewing it and sharing it stay free. Always.
So are your library, your stats, your friends, the cards and the pages
you share — and recognition is never behind the tier.
✦ Insights, on any song you caught.ProInsights is the story behind the set — the artist, the record, and where to go next, on any song you caught.
Three are free every month without Pro;
the counter only shows up once you've spent the first one.
Apple Music export.ProSend a set straight to your own Apple Music library.
Permission is asked once, and it needs an Apple Music subscription on
the phone.
Capture with no signal.Pro
In a basement with no service, the stretches it couldn't identify wait
on your phone and get their names the moment you're back online.
It's a subscription, bought from the App Store. It starts with
a free trial, it renews until you cancel, and you manage or cancel it
in your Apple account settings — the price is whatever the App Store
shows you there.
It listens. Here is exactly what it keeps.
An app that holds a microphone open for hours owes you a
straight answer about where the sound goes.
The sound itself never leaves. Your phone turns what it
hears into a fingerprint on the device and sends only that — never
the audio — to Apple's Shazam service to be matched. The audio it
fingerprinted is dropped on the spot.
Audio is kept only where you'll be asked to judge it — one
short clip for each song it was unsure about, and each moment it
couldn't name. They stay on your phone, delete themselves when you
finish reviewing the set (or after 30 days if you never do), and
leave the device only if you deliberately share one. The one
exception is a clip you tap Keep clip on: that one is yours
until you delete it.
When a match can't be made right then — no signal, or the
service not answering — that stretch of audio waits on the phone
until it can be identified, and is deleted the moment it is. That's
the price of not losing it.
An account is real, and it's for friends. Capturing,
reviewing and your library need no sign-up and no password,
and opening a set someone shares with you needs nothing at all.
Signing in (Apple or Google) is what backs your friend code, your
friends list and your share links, so they survive a new phone — and
adding a friend is the one thing that asks for it. Signing in picks
your @username too — the server holds it, it's how friends find
you, and you can change it later (once every 30 days) — along with a display name if
you add one, and a profile carrying your counters, the disc you
chose and your Instagram handle if you added one, all of which you
can switch off. Once you have friends, a finished set goes to them
unless you switch that off — Catchy asks the first time it happens,
and any set can be unshared. Your audio never leaves either way.
No analytics SDK, no tracking, no trail of where you go.
The only time Catchy uses your location is when you tap Pin the venue, once
per set, to save where the set was. Your exact coordinates never leave your
phone. What travels is the venue's name and an approximate location — a map
cell about 150 m across — and only where the set itself goes: with a set you
share, or to a friend you let join you. The cell is there so that friends'
phones at the same place can be joined into one shared set. Nothing else
about where you are ever leaves your phone. Our server does
the connecting — friend links, invitations, the pages you share — and
never sees your audio, or the name of a set you didn't share (a
private set sends only the diagnostics and usage data below, as
catalog identifiers, counts and times — and an Insights question when you
ask one). Open a song in
Spotify and a random install ID
goes along with that one request and nothing else; it's tied to
nothing about you and resets if you reinstall.
Diagnostics and usage data, each with its own switch.
After a set ends, again after it is reviewed, and again if its
numbers change, the app sends capture diagnostics: counters about
the capture and each hour of it, one row per song with what you did
with it in review, and every recognition window — catalog
identifiers and numbers, plus your device model and iOS version. A
small start record leaves when the microphone starts, and a device
summary once a day. While you use it, the app sends usage data: what
you do in it, as counts and times, with the app build and your
device model and iOS version. Never audio, never a recording, never song titles, set names
or anything you typed. Both exist to fix problems and make the app
better. Switching either off
(Share usage data
is the second) deletes what it sent; deleting a set deletes that
set's rows.
Ask about an artist, and that one question leaves the phone.
Open a song's card and Catchy starts the
✦ Insights
lookup so the answer is ready if you tap: the song's title and
artist go to our server, and the artist's name to MusicBrainz, the
public music encyclopedia, to make sure it's the right one. Any
set, shared or private — it's you asking about an artist, not the
set reporting itself, and nothing else about the set goes
along.
It's in friends-and-family alpha right now — the app opens on the line
“Every set becomes a playlist.” and the fastest way to
make that true is to use it and tell us what broke.