Mantis Music
The Mantis Music icon

Your music.
Your place.

Mantis Music is a Mac and iPhone app for people who make music. It keeps every song organised, lets you enjoy your own work anywhere, and publishes it to a website that belongs to you.

Coming to the App Store See a Mantis site ↗
01
For music makers

Keep your music organised

Every song keeps everything that belongs to it together: the audio, the cover, the lyrics, the credits and how it looks when it plays. Work on it whenever an idea strikes, on your Mac or your iPhone, and it stays neatly and safely organised across all your Apple devices.

  • Update the lyrics
  • Change the visualiser
  • Fix the credits
  • Swap the album cover
  • Drop in the latest mix
02
Listen

Enjoy your own work, everywhere

Play your songs on any device in the house: phone, computer, in the car. Synced lyrics and a live visualiser come along. Keep downloaded means the latest version of every song is always on your device, so nothing has to stream again and again.

03
Publish

Publish to a site you own

Turn the same experience into a website in a few taps. Mantis builds a fast, beautiful site and uploads it to your own server. It needs only the cheapest web hosting there is, because nothing is installed there: no database, no scripts, just files.

  • A publishing space you fully control.
  • It won't disappear when a streaming platform changes its rules.
  • You own it, and you share it with anyone you like.
  • Publish from your Mac or straight from your iPhone.
04
Optional

Join the Mantis network

If you want to, become part of a distributed network of musicians who publish this way, sharing and owning their music on their own terms. It's built on ActivityPub, the open standard behind Mastodon and the fediverse, so it inherits its values:

  • An open standard: no company owns the network, and no one can switch it off.
  • Your identity lives on your own domain, not on a platform's account.
  • People can follow and talk with you from the fediverse apps they already use.
  • Comments and likes, right under each song: things a streaming service doesn't give you.
  • An opt-in directory to help listeners find you. Coming

The apps

Mantis Music Mac + iPhone

Listen and Publish: follow artists' sites, keep their songs downloaded, and build and publish your own site.

Coming soon to the App Store.

Mantis Studio Later

A separate app for making music, on your own Mac. Finished songs go straight into your Mantis Music library, ready to publish.

In development.

See what a Mantis site looks like: mantisaudiogram.music