SoundtracksSoundtracks is a journal for them. Catch the song while it’s playing, write a line or pages, and let it bring the moment back years from now.
Free for iPhone. Works with Apple Music.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 · 11:48 PM
Whatever’s on in Apple Music fills itself in. Or tap Identify and Soundtracks names the song playing in the room.
It’s one tap from the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button, so you can get it down before the moment passes.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 · 11:52 PM
A page made for reading, not a form to fill in. Start with nothing, a sentence, or everything you can remember.
Drafts save as you go, so closing the app never costs you a word.
Drove the long way home from Mara’s so this would finish before the exit. Windows cracked, first cold night of the year, the whole river lit up orange under the bridge.
I don’t want to forget what it felt like to not be in a hurry.
Monday, October 19, 2026 · seven years later
On this day brings back what you saved on today’s date, oldest first. Weekly rewinds, moods, people and years do the rest.
You don’t have to remember to look back. The journal does it for you.
Monday, October 19, 2026 · 10:14 PM
Every entry keeps the song, the date, the place and your words together. Tap the artwork and it plays.
A song that brought something back
Dancing In the Moonlight King Harvest
Fourth of July at the lake. Sam had one speaker and this was the only song we agreed on.
July 4, 2018
Something new you can’t stop playing
Motion Sickness Phoebe Bridgers
Can’t stop playing this one.
October 2
A day, with a song attached
Pink + White Frank Ocean
First real fall morning. Walked to the coffee shop the long way so this could play twice.
October 14
Make an album for a road trip, a wedding, a year. Friends add their song and a few words from a link. They don’t need the app, and neither does anyone you share it with.
Some songs take me straight back. One comes on and I’m in a specific kitchen, a specific car, next to a specific person, years ago, like no time passed.
I wanted one place to keep those: the song, and whatever it brings back. So I built it.
Josh, who made Soundtracks