Content overload
Nearly 150,000 new tracks land on streaming services every day, according to Luminate. Nobody can keep up.
Galette only shows you albums from the artists you picked. It doesn't even see the rest.
Tired of being the last to know?
Your favorite artist has a new album out? Galette alerts you and sets it aside for you!
Give Galette the artists you love,
the ones who already have a place in your heart
or the new kids you're keeping an eye on 🙂
It watches for their releases and lets you know
the day a new album comes out, cover art included.
It's free. No account, no subscription.
Mac, iPhone and iPadSynced through iCloudFreeNo accountEnglish and French
Let the algorithms talk among themselves.
Love music?? But lately… fatiiiiiigue. 🤯
Between launch plans and campaigns on repeat, it's easy to drown, and a new album from an artist you love slips through the cracks. Galette has no algorithm and nothing to sell you. It follows the artists you give it, and only ever talks to you about them.
And Galette only keeps albums. An album is probably the best way to meet an artist and hear what they had in mind. It's often where you discover them, or rediscover them.
The diagnosis
Cure your music fatigue.
Subscription fatigue
Every service has its subscription, and every year its price hike.
Galette is free, with no account and no subscription, and it doesn't replace your service: one click opens the album in the one you already have.
Algorithmic burnout
To stay visible, artists have to post nonstop, and an album stays in the shop window for a week, barely.
Galette has no algorithm. An album three years in the making lands on your shelf like any other, and stays there until you've listened to it.
Shrinking attention spans
Songs keep getting shorter, and everything plays out in the first few seconds.
Galette only talks albums, the kind you play from the first track to the last. And if you're short on time that day, “Set Aside” keeps it for later.
The cure is free, no prescription needed.
Download for macOSSide A
Make the list, Galette watches out for you.
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A1
Add your artists
Search for your artists by name, or import the list you already keep in one go: a CSV file with one name per line, or your Spotify data export. Galette tells them apart by their MusicBrainz ID: your Icelandic folk band won't get mixed up with the Florida DJ who has the same name.
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A2
Watch the shelf fill up
Their albums from the last twelve months are already there. The next ones arrive on release day, without you having to think about it.
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A3
See what's coming
Announced albums wait on the radar, with a countdown in days. If you like, Galette lets you know when the day comes.
Out today
On release day, Galette drops by to tell you.
That day, the album moves from the radar to the shelf and Galette sends you a notification, just one, with the cover. You can open its page, keep it as a favorite if you'd been waiting for it, or set it aside for later. That's allowed: it moves to “Set Aside”, where it waits for you with no hard feelings, and nobody counts it as listened.
Galette never bothers you without permission: its notifications stay off until you turn them on in its Settings. And it will never bother you about a single, it doesn't know what one is.
Side B
Sort your records to your own tune.
The shelf can be flipped through four ways, on the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad. Pick yours with a tap, and Galette remembers it for each section.
Glance at the top of your screen
On the Mac, one click on Galette's icon in the menu bar, and you see the last eight releases and the next announcements, covers included. One click on an album opens its page.
Open the album page
It sends you off to find the album on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Bandcamp, whichever you use, and keeps Wikipedia, Discogs and MusicBrainz close at hand, to find out who played on it and how it was made.
Forget the singles
Galette leaves out singles, EPs, live albums, compilations, remixes and soundtracks, going by how MusicBrainz files them. What's left are the albums, the ones the artist thought through from start to finish.
Tick off what you've heard
Every cover has its buttons, by finger, mouse or keyboard. A listened album leaves the shelf for the listened list, and your favorites get a place of their own, for the records you keep coming back to.
Dig through the crates
The catalog: your artists' older albums, sorted by artist, with an index to jump from one to the next. Just the thing to dust off that 2009 record you'd half forgotten.
Let it do its thing
Galette checks in at launch, then every six hours. If that's too often, or not often enough, the interval goes from one to twenty-four hours.
All that's missing is your artists.
Download for macOSDeluxe edition
Your shelf follows you everywhere.
Galette also comes on iPhone and iPad, with the same shelf, the same radar and the same covers. And your devices keep each other posted: a favorite you mark on your iPhone on the subway is waiting on your Mac when you get home, and an album ticked off on the iPad leaves the phone's shelf.
iCloud
Through your iCloud, not ours
Your decisions travel in the private part of your iCloud account. Galette has no server, and nothing but your own devices reads them.
What travels
Your decisions, nothing more
Artists followed or removed, albums listened to, kept, set aside or put back. The catalog, the covers and the settings, each device keeps on its own.
No iCloud
Nothing's missing
Without an iCloud account, nothing leaves and Galette works just as before. On the Mac, a switch in Settings › iCloud turns syncing off.
On iPhone and iPad, Galette is coming soon to the App Store.
Where are we at?The data
Where our data comes from.
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It all comes from MusicBrainz
Our releases come from MusicBrainz, the free music encyclopedia kept up by its volunteers, and our covers from the Cover Art Archive. To be upfront, we only see what has been entered there: if an album isn't in it, we don't know about it, and an announcement can show up late.
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You know what we don't know
A date known to the month stays to the month, a missing cover is shown as missing, and a left-out album comes with its reason, which the Settings show.
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What leaves your devices
Your searches and your artists' IDs go to MusicBrainz, and the albums' IDs to the Cover Art Archive for the covers. Your decisions only ever go through your own iCloud. Nothing else goes out: we ask for no account, and nobody watches what you listen to.
If an album is missing, you can add it to MusicBrainz yourself. We'll see it at a coming refresh, and so will everyone who uses MusicBrainz: that's how the encyclopedia grows.
Color pressings
Pick your pressing.
Some records come out in several color pressings; Galette comes in thirteen. And the pressing no longer stops at the icon: the whole app takes on its colors, from the shelf to the buttons. On the Mac, pick the icon in Settings › Appearance, and the Dock follows right away; on iPhone and iPad, it's in Settings › Appearance › Colours.
Here, one click on an icon puts the page and the iPhone in its colors, no strings attached.
Download
Install in a minute.
Mac
- Download Galette and open the .dmg file.
- Drag it into Applications, then open it.
- Search for a first artist, or import your list, and watch the shelf fill up.
macOS 26 or laterApple silicon or IntelIn English and French
iPhone and iPad
Galette is coming soon to the App Store, with the same shelf, its four views and its thirteen pressings. Your decisions will meet up with the Mac's through iCloud, from the very first launch.
Coming soon to the App StoreiOS 26 and iPadOS 26Free, no account
Questions
What people often ask.
Is Galette free?
Yes. There's nothing to buy, neither the app nor anything inside it, and no ads.
Is Galette in English?
Yes, and in French too. Galette follows your Mac's language, and Settings › General › Language lets you pick the other one. The covers speak every language anyway.
Do I need an account?
No. Galette has no server: it queries MusicBrainz from your device and keeps everything there, in a database you back up in one click. To go from one device to another, it uses your iCloud account, the one you already have.
An album came out and Galette doesn't show it. Why?
Either it isn't in MusicBrainz yet, or it's filed there as something other than an album, like an EP, a live album or a compilation. The Settings show what Galette left out, and why.
Does Galette connect to Apple Music or Spotify?
No. It reads no library and asks for no access. Its buttons open a search for the album on the service you prefer. For the import, you're the one who hands it your Spotify data export, if you want to.
How often does Galette check?
At launch, then every six hours. Galette stays polite with MusicBrainz: one request at a time, a little over a second apart.
What about iPhone, iPad or Windows?
Galette comes on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and all three keep each other posted through iCloud. On iPhone and iPad, it's coming soon to the App Store: that was the surprise we hinted at here. Windows and Android, on the other hand, aren't on the program.
Why “Galette”?
Because in French, a galette can be lots of things, but it's also slang for a record. And everybody loves a galette! (Right, Étienne? 🥧)