Picky Music Player

Been searching for a music player that is dedicated to playing your collection (ITunes library etc). Whilst there’s some decent apps available, Picky is on another level. Really punchy audio, and it somehow sorts out those sound levels on ITunes, and keeps it consistent between artists, albums, files.

Really useful - much nicer than the on-board Apple Music app – lots of little things for example when you look at the tracks on the album you can see more info at a glance than in the Apple app, more search & sorting options etc. too - I definitely recommend it! Jez P

Much better to look at and use than the clumsy & buggy stock music app.

This is an excellent replacement for the Music app, especially if you have a large library of audio files. I have a lot of radio dramas and the names can be long. In Music, you couldn’t tell them apart if the names were similar because they were truncated to fit. In Picky, there are lists. Lovely, lovey lists. My life is now better.

Update: I've heard from the developer, where he promised he'd be working on fixing the issues I mentioned below in my original review ;) Hi! After several tries with Marvis and Cesium I got attracted to Picky by good reviews, so yesterday paid £1.99 and hoped for the less buggy experience than with the aforementioned. However ... All initially fine and - respect to the hard work of the developer! No search option nor history though but could live without those. However, very quickly ... a nasty surprise! It goes like this: I create a queue after adding several tracks from various albums and start playing! All fine but than I feel I don't want to play this one and that one down the line so decide to remove them from the queue and oops, when a track is removed, the currently playing track goes back to the beginning!!! No it's not a one-off (as in Cesium), I remove another track from queue, the currently playing track again skips back to the beginning and starts all over again ... and again and again after each amendment! Beyond annoying! And on top of that there's no way to manually rearrange song order in the queue, as in the native app (and all the others). How very, very odd!? All in all this double super-bug makes Picky the most bizarrely inadequate alternative to the native music app I've tried. Simply unusable. Sorry guys but this leaves me feel cheated and don't know how I could possibly use this unless for a linear, unaltered listening, which to someone with 950 albums and 12,250 songs on my iPhone is simply crippling!

for some reason this app doesn’t show all my single mp3s but i can see them in other inferior player apps otherwise this app would be a perfect replacement the email response i got was very matter of fact

By far the best thing about Picky is the ease with which it lets you navigate your music if you happen to have an extensive library - something that seems to have become needlessly laborious with the stock music app in recent years. The layout is neat, the interface is user-friendly and the design is simple, to the point and nice to look at; I particularly like how the main play screen incorporates the colours of the currently playing track’s album artwork. The ability to create playlists on the fly is also particularly handy. The only music player I use any more!

All I really wanted was the ability to Yasui the screen and see lyrics, for my Japanese lessons, on a larger enough screen which apple removed some time ago. It would be nice to select the text too and copy and paste or look up on the dictionary. It would also be nice to air drop music files to the app, but I'm happy with it. And the dark mode is perfect. Thank you to the developer.

Far superior to Apples own music App.

Will not synch to apples music app Does not play what you select Will not work without apples music installed so this app is useless. Don't waste your money