Homecrate - Player & Studio

09/18/2026

homecrate banner came out rad

09/01/2026

Version 1.15 is out with a ton of new features around tunings and video recording filters! Great timing to announce that homecrate has been accepted as a vendor for Austin Steel Guitar Fest where l'Il be doing demos and offering a trade of a lick for a lid. Bring your steel chops to the table and I'll give you some hand made homecrate swag.

08/26/2026

No longer just a DAW. homecrate has become a full production suite! I've been so focused on shipping new features that it took a solid week to summarize everything thats landed. Here's a post summarizing it all with a video walkthrough.

hc_gesture reads eleven hand poses off the front camera and sends them as notes or CC. vstpipe streams desktop VST3 and AU plugins to the phone, and the video recorder now stacks 70+ GPU effects that react to your mix (your own ISF shaders too!) with shields that keep you and your instrument clean while the room gets glitched. Plus transient warping and a rebuilt MIDI editor. homecrate is now 9 cross app first-party AUv3s.

The catch-up post for homecrate 1.13 and 1.14: desktop plugins streaming into the phone's session, hand-gesture MIDI, a GPU video effect rack with person and instrument preservation, custom shaders, timed lyrics that travel to the player, a rebuilt MIDI editor, and a lot more. Still $9.99, still a o...

08/04/2026

New in 1.12: Control your instruments without touching your screen! The new gesture AUv3 tracks your hands by camera to send MIDI. Palm, fist, pinch, rotate. Assign to any parameter in your track's plugin chain, or send to external hardware.

08/04/2026

Stem separation shouldn't cost you every month. homecrate splits any song into stems right on your modern iOS device unlimited, offline, no account. Mute the guitar and play the part yourself through your favorite NAM amp in-app.
One-time $9.99. No subscription.
https://homecrate.app for more info.
Download on the App Store.

08/03/2026

Stem separation shouldn't cost you every month. homecrate splits any song into stems right on your modern iOS device unlimited, offline, no account. Mute the guitar and play the part yourself through your favorite NAM amp in the same app.
One-time $9.99. No subscription, ever.
https://homecrate.app for more info.
Download on the App Store.

08/03/2026

homecrate was built not to promise a fantasy future of music production, but rather to unlock the features of today that other providers have bottled up in monthly subscriptions even though they can be accomplished on-device privately. And that’s just the start; homecrate is packed with so much more to be your daily driver music making tool.

07/19/2026

v1.11 is now out on iOS! On-device stem separation, audio to MIDI, dual NAM A2 dynamics and much more!
(Full changelog in comments)

https://youtu.be/k4S5wEEbusY

New in 1.11!This is the biggest update yet headlined by features m...

07/12/2026

homecrate 1.10 is live! AUv3 Stereo NAM A2 support, pre/post amp EQ & reverb, a new amp delay (ping pong, tape), live looper with midi control/sync, multi-device sync, spatial audio/video export plus a ton of fixes.

Plugins + Looper + DAW demo here:

A walkthrough of the newest release of homecrate for iOS, macOS, an...

05/29/2026

homecrate is now live on Mac and Apple Vision Pro.

A local library player and pocket studio built for musicians and audiophiles, not charts and corpo-algorithms. Your files, your recordings, your algorithm. Everything on device. No accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud lockin.

The free tier is a complete lossless music player and 4 track recorder with a slightly limited AUv3, NAM, poly synth, and 12bit vintage inspired sampler. The Pro upgrade unlocks an 8-track DAW with voice control, fully unlocked plugins, spatial audio recording, and more
$9.99 once.

Now on iOS, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.

https://homecrate.app