Play music in any player and your pet hears it, dances and grows. Plus a shelf of albums, stats, goals and a den to furnish. Free, no ads, no account.
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Songling sees what plays in Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music or any other player, so there's nothing to log. Android asks you to give it notification access for that; Songling takes just the song, the artist and the album. A song counts after 30 seconds, and podcasts are left out. You choose which apps it hears: every player but a few, or only the ones you play music in, so video and social apps don't count.
A record, the radio or a concert can be logged by hand – a whole album or a single song.
There are three eggs to start with. The rest are found by the way you listen: hours of rock or jazz, music at night or in the morning, artists from many countries, long sittings, a song on repeat, a live concert.
- An egg hatches after three hours of music, then the pet grows: baby, youngster, grown, ancient.
- Each has its favourite music. It feeds the pet one and a half times as much and pays double plectrums.
- Each has a nature: a greedy one grows faster, a curious one earns a plectrum for every new artist.
- A grown pet takes one of six forms for good, by the music it was raised on.
- Days without music wind it down until it stops like a clockwork toy. A couple of songs and it dances again.
Your pet lives in a pixel room and dances while music plays: it nods to rock and sways slowly to ambient. Plectrums are the money here, paid for music, whole albums, tasks and goals. They buy a turntable, a record shelf, fairy lights, a disco ball and a dozen more things, each tried in the room first. Two frames on the wall hold posters: your favourite album and a band. And the window shows the weather and the time of day in your town.
Everything you've heard – albums, singles, songs and artists – with covers, genres, years and stars. A «to hear» list keeps what you never get round to. Add an album or a song yourself, from search or typed in, and make genres of your own, like «for work» or «grandma's records».
Stats for a week, a month, a year and all time: top artists, albums, songs and genres, your hours and weekdays, countries and decades. A calendar shows every day of the year.
Set goals on anything: «4 new albums this month», «10 hours of Radiohead this year», «music from three new countries». And every week brings three small tasks for plectrums.
51 awards with steps to climb – hours, streaks, night listening, songs by two artists, New Year songs and more – each step paying plectrums. And postcards for a social feed: the den, the pet, your month, top artists and albums, genres, the year as squares, awards and all your pets, as a post or a story.
Albums look like records in sleeves or like tapes with hand-written J-cards – chosen on first start and in Settings. There's a light and a dark theme and a few pixel backgrounds. A home-screen widget shows what plays as a record or a tape, with previous, play/pause and next.
Bring your history over from Spotify, Last.fm or ListenBrainz. Everything stays on the phone; a backup is one zip file. The app only goes online for covers, genres and artists' countries (iTunes, MusicBrainz, Deezer) and for the weather (Open-Meteo, MET Norway).
git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/songling.git
cd songling
./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo -Pdemolang=en # app.songling.demo: four months of music and all 18 petsNeeds JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore. The pets are painted by tools/pets.py, the icon by tools/icon.py, the screenshots by tools/capture.sh.
Songling is part of Stillcraft, a series of small free apps. MIT licensed. Fonts Comfortaa, Nunito, Caveat and IBM Plex Mono are under the OFL.