How it will work

notch.fm and Apple Music

Apple Music support is being built and is not connected yet. notch.fm is an independent app: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple, and it is not made or reviewed by them. This page is what the support will do when it ships, written down now so it can be held to.

Last reviewed 13 September 2026

Nothing here works today, and nothing here is a date. A date that slips is worse than no date. What is true today is that notch.fm reads nothing from Apple Music, and that everything the app is actually for already works with no service connected at all.

Why you can start now anyway#

This is the part worth knowing before you wait for anything. Your scores, your five tag axes, your comments, your playlists and every chart built on them are notch.fm’s own data. They are not stored in a music service and they do not come from one.

So rating a library now is not work you will repeat. The day Apple Music support ships it connects to what you have already built - there is nothing to migrate, nothing to re-rate, and nothing that only counts once a service is attached.

Getting your music in covers the routes that exist today, including starting from an empty library.

What it will read#

The same principle the rest of the app is held to: only what it uses, and only where it maps to something on screen.

Your library: The songs you have saved, so there is something to rate without typing any of it in.
Track and album details: Title, artist, album, year, length and cover art, so a song looks like itself while you score it.
What is playing now: So a score lands on the right song, and a comment can be pinned to a moment in it.

What it will write, and only when you press something#

Saving a like, when you press the heart.
Creating a playlist, when you build one from your ratings and choose to push it across.
Playback, on your own account, on a device you already have open.

No background writing of any kind, and a score is never written into Apple Music - it is notch.fm’s, and there is nowhere in a music service to put it.

What it will never do#

Host or sell music. A notch.fm subscription buys notch.fm features. It is not a music licence and it does not include an Apple Music subscription.
Speak for Apple in any way. Nothing in this app is provided, reviewed or endorsed by them, and this page is not an announcement on their behalf.
Keep access you revoked. Disconnecting will be one button in Settings, effective immediately, exactly as it is for every other service.

Apple Music itself#

An Apple Music subscription is bought from Apple, never from notch.fm. You can read about it at Apple Music.

Apple and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. notch.fm is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple.