IDAGIO - Classical Music App

Excellent app for classic music which is not so easily found elsewhere

This is the first time I write a review, but I feel that IDAGIO has given me countless hours of listening pleasure. There are two reasons: firstly, the app is well-designed and easy to use. Secondly, the selection of music is wonderful. I subscribe to a classical music magazine and always find in IDAGIO compositions reviewed in the said magazine. For example, this morning I came across the cello suites by Bach in a piano version. And so on…. Thank you IDAGIO, and please continue what you are doing.

Where else can one find about any composer, any instrument, right at your finger tips. I played violin through out my long life and still have the hardbody music to follow along ! I am blessed with IDAGIO! Thank you so much for making it available!

Great app for classical music. Seems refined , like tidal , they’re generous with free music offerings. Well-tailored, like MUBI for movies. They seem to really care and love classical music.

We are big fans of the app. Our favorite features are all of the playlists, especially those created by famous classical artists; they are great for discovering new pieces, as well as wonderful performances of pieces we already knew. While there are other classical music apps that have better search engines, we found this one to have the greatest depth in terms of the number of performances.

Excellent for classical music and improves with each update

I have subscribed to IDAGIO for several years. It integrates with my Sonos system, but also works well when I travel. There are always many different recordings of most pieces, and the curated collections are very good. I try to never miss each week’s “New Releases” collection. I highly recommend.

THANK YOU IDAGIO! You have made it possible for me to enjoy and study Bach, Mozart and others these past few years - easy to use and great sound quality along the way! Thank you so much!

Idagio is no longer competitive. I subscribed for the trial period and then cancelled. There are better options, for three reasons. (1) Both Apple Music Classical and Roon (Qobuz and Tidal) offer true high resolution music, at 24/96 and even 24/192. If you have a high end audio system, there is a clear difference in quality between those high resolution services and Idagio, which only offers CD quality at 16/44. (2) Roon provides outstanding descriptions of the composers, artists, and music. The descriptions in Apple Classical are not of the same caliber and some are very abbreviated compared to Roon — but at least they provide something. Idagio offers absolutely nothing by comparison — nothing at all. They have a “background” tab, but if you click on it, it is empty. This is a fatal flaw in Idagio. If you want to learn something about the composer, artist or album, you need to read it on Roon or Apple Music and then listen on Idagio. Why bother? Why not just use one source that provides all of these features? (3) Idagio has too many technical problems. To name just one, they offer lectures on Bach by Schiff, but even if you pay for it, you will get an error message that it is a private video. Many of their videos are very old and poor quality. Apple Classical offers a search mechanism and catalog that can compete with Idagio, and it is free for anyone who pays for Apple Music or the Apple package. Most audiophiles already pay for Roon. Idagio simply doesn’t offer anything that is an improvement on the other two services to justify paying for it.

Currently the album art is displayed only when playing directly from an album. When playing from a recording or a work, the composer portrait is displayed instead, making it difficult to quickly identify which performers I’m listening to and just looks plain ugly. Not being able to quickly identify the performer currently being played beats the purpose of having such a great search and filtering functionally.