Your own music, any podcast and the artists you love — played with the phone in your pocket, behind a lock that swallows every touch. Type an artist and keep their songs in your lists: Apple Music plays right here with the screen off, and YouTube plays in its own player on screen. And a week in music: how long you listened on each of the last seven days, counted privately on your iPhone and kept there for ninety days. Optimised for iPhone Duo.
You put the phone in your pocket and the music stops for no reason.
One slide to lock it, and it plays until you take it out again.
One slide the width of the screen, held for most of a second, and it lifts. Denim does not do that. A thumb does it without looking. The screen goes almost black — not fully, because a screen showing nothing reads as a dead phone and people press it to check.
Search an artist and add their songs and albums to your lists, with favourites and your own order. With Apple Music they play right in Melopocket — in a pocket, with the screen off. YouTube channels are followed by the feeds YouTube publishes and played in YouTube’s own player.
Add a podcast by its RSS address and it plays with the screen properly off, with the controls on your Lock Screen, in Control Centre and in the car. It remembers where you got to.
A bar for each of the last seven days and the total time you listened, counted on this iPhone while something plays and kept for ninety days. Nothing is sent anywhere, and one tap erases it.
From putting the phone away to taking it out again.
Its RSS address. Most shows put it on their own site, and many of the ones people watch on YouTube publish the same episodes this way.
It starts where you left off.
The shield comes down and the screen goes dark.
Nothing that touches the screen does anything at all.
One deliberate movement, and you are back.
What plays where — and what each one is allowed to do.
What each service allows is set by its owner and can change.
The problem is not the player. Every player works. The problem is the fabric.
| The question | The usual answer | Melopocket |
|---|---|---|
| Phone in a pocket | Denim pauses it, skips it, scrubs it | Every touch swallowed |
| Getting back to it | Unlock, find the app, find your place | Slide across and hold |
| What is playing | Take the phone out to see | Shown faintly on the locked screen |
| Where your listening goes | Somebody's recommendation engine | Nowhere. There is no account |
| Your favourite artists | Another app, another account | Type a name; keep the songs in your lists |
Play, pause, thirty forward, fifteen back, and a scrubber — on the Lock Screen, in Control Centre, on a watch and in a car.
A two-hour episode does not start again because the app was closed.
From 0.8 up to 2×, for people who listen to talk at speed.
No account, no e-mail address, no password.
Your lists, favourites and listening stay in the app. Apple Music and YouTube see only what they need to play.
The player, playlists, podcasts, pocket lock, sleep timer and Artists never ask for money. Pro adds the automatic lock, the equaliser and crossfade — yearly with three days free, or once for good.
No account and nothing to sign up for. Pro is optional: try it free for three days.
Coming to the App StorePrices are shown on the App Store, in your own currency. Pro: yearly with three days free, or one payment for good.
No. YouTube’s terms let its videos play only in YouTube’s own player while it is on screen; playing in the background is something YouTube offers only in its own app. Melopocket plays YouTube in YouTube’s own embedded player and pauses it when you lock the phone.
For music in your pocket with the screen off, use Apple Music inside Melopocket: Apple Music is licensed for exactly that.
Only for Apple Music songs. Your own music files and podcasts play without it. Apple Music songs play in full with your own Apple Music subscription.
No. It never downloads, converts or copies anything from YouTube or Apple Music. It keeps links in your lists, and the music is played by their own players.
The player, playlists, podcasts, pocket lock, sleep timer and Artists are free for good. Melopocket Pro adds the automatic pocket lock, the ten-band equaliser and crossfade. New subscribers get three days of Pro free from the App Store; cancel at least 24 hours before they end and nothing is charged.
Pro is either a yearly subscription that renews until you cancel, or a single payment that is yours for good and never renews. Apple takes the payment and only Apple can refund it; this developer never sees a card or a name. Apple Music and YouTube are never behind a payment.
Yes. Cancel at any time in the App Store: tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. That is the only place a subscription can be stopped — the app cannot do it for you, because Apple takes the money. You keep it until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us — we never see your payment details and cannot issue one. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, and choose the purchase.
Whatever you bought belongs to your Apple Account. Sign in on an iPad or a new iPhone with the same Apple Account, open the app, and choose Restore on the purchase screen. Nothing is charged again.
One purchase covers one Apple Account. It is not shared with a family and cannot be passed round a firm — a second person needs their own.
No. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. Everything the app holds is on your own device and is removed when you delete the app.
The only network traffic the app causes belongs to the App Store, when you buy, subscribe or restore.
Whatever your device is set to, if that language is one it has been translated into; otherwise English. There is no language setting to get wrong — changing your iPhone's language changes the app with it.
Payments, refunds and cancellations
Apple takes every payment for this app. That means Apple — and only Apple — can look a charge up, stop a subscription or give a refund. This developer never sees a card, a name or a payment, and has no way to change one.
Cancelling is done at the App Store, and nowhere else. Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next payment; what you have already paid for runs to the end of its period. Do it at least 24 hours before the period ends, or that renewal goes through anyway.
About Apple Music and YouTube
Melopocket never downloads, converts or copies music or video. Apple Music songs play through Apple’s own player with your own subscription. YouTube videos play in YouTube’s own embedded player, on screen, and pause when the phone is locked, as YouTube’s terms require. Neither is behind Melopocket’s subscription.
A purchase belongs to your Apple Account, not to one device. On a new phone, or after reinstalling, open the app and choose Restore on the purchase screen. Nothing is charged again.
Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. That is the only place a subscription can be stopped — this app cannot do it for you, because Apple takes the money. Cancelling stops the next payment and leaves the period you have already paid for running to its end. A one-time purchase never renews and has nothing to cancel.
Still stuck? Write to alpenlume@gmail.com — say which app, which iPhone or iPad, and what you expected to happen.
Last updated 10 September 2026.
The short version
Melopocket collects nothing and has no account. When you use Apple Music or YouTube, they work under Apple’s and Google’s own privacy policies.
Nothing. This app has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no crash reporting service and no tracking of any kind. No profile is built and nothing is shared with anyone.
This app has no server of its own: nothing to sign in to, and nothing uploaded to the developer, ever. What it does with the internet — for most of these apps, nothing at all — is set out under “On your device” above.
Two things do use the internet, and both are somebody else's. The App Store does, when you buy, subscribe or restore. And when you share something — a dish, a recipe, a document — iOS hands it to the app you picked, whether that is Messages, Mail or WhatsApp, and that app sends it over its own connection under its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent unless you press send, and this app never learns where it went.
Buying is handled entirely by Apple. The app never sees a card number, a name or an address; it asks the App Store one question — whether this Apple Account owns the app — and receives yes or no. Apple's own privacy policy governs the transaction.
This app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anybody, so there is nothing held about a child to disclose, correct or delete.
Data protection law gives you the right to see, correct, export and erase personal data held about you. Because none is held, there is nothing to produce or delete on request. Everything the app has is on your own device: deleting the app removes it, and it was never anywhere else.
If this policy ever changes it will be dated above. It will not be changed retroactively, because there is no collected data for a change to newly permit.
