Discover records that connect with who you are.

Streaming turned music into something that plays in the background. synff is a way back in: six albums, each with a reason, when you ask for them, and a quiet place to notice what they mean to you.

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synff sits somewhere between a way to discover music, a listening practice and a journal about music. All to help you understand what music means to you.

1Discover
Six albums at a time, shaped by the artists you care about, each with a reason you can read.
2Practice
Time with a record, then a pause to notice what stayed with you. Mindfulness, for people who love records.
3Journal
Your notes, your Drops and a Fingerprint of your taste, kept together and changing as you do.

One record, all the way through.

Follow a single pick, Thundercat’s It Is What It Is, through the listening practice at the heart of the app.

01 · Drop
Six records, each with a reason.
Ask for a Drop when you are ready. Six albums shaped by the artists you choose, not by what everyone else streamed, and yours to keep for as long as you like. Listen in the service you already use.
“Actually been put onto some great music - from artists I wouldn’t have found otherwise.”
Google Play review (opens in a new tab), September 2026
02 · Context
Explore the stories behind the records.
Every record opens into what it is, why it found you, and further reading from the writers who covered it.
“keeps music lovers curious and committed to the art form”
App Store review (opens in a new tab), September 2026
03 · Note
Express how a record makes you feel, and why.
Leave a note while it is fresh. Not a score, a thought: funny on the surface, sad underneath.
04 · Recap
Let what stayed with you shape what comes next.
Before the next Drop, a few minutes to look back: what you loved, what did not land, what you bought. What you decide here shapes what the next six reach for.
“bringing listening back to being intentional”
App Store review (opens in a new tab), September 2026
05 · Crate
Keep the records that land.
When a record really lands, buy it. Find a copy shows you where, and your Crate keeps the albums you own, so the next Drop knows them too.
“I have been buying albums again”
App Store review (opens in a new tab), August 2026
06 · Fingerprint
See yourself through the music you love.
Your choices draw a Fingerprint that grows with you: a picture of your taste you can read, not a chart of what you played.
“I’ve been able to get out of my rut and actually SEE what I like.”
App Store review (opens in a new tab), August 2026

A Drop called Room Noise, Real Grooves, with Thundercat’s It Is What It Is

Not ready for the app? Start with you.

Sixteen listening archetypes, drawn on four axes of taste. No account, and a result that stays on your device.

Cartographer

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Reasons, not play counts.

synff reads how critics and writers describe a record, then turns their words into something you can see. This is It Is What It Is, drawn from 8 publications and placed from calm to charged, light to dark.

hazyThe Guardian Music, Pitchfork
ominousPassion of the Weiss, Pitchfork, DJBooth
denseThe Line of Best Fit, The Quietus
propulsiveClash Magazine, DJBooth, The Line of Best Fit
wildDJBooth, Pitchfork
sombreClash Magazine, Loud And Quiet
swirlingLoud And Quiet, The Quietus
weightlessDJBooth, Pitchfork

How synff finds records Stories: who critics heard in whomShort histories told from dated reviews, starting with Burial.

How Thundercat’s It Is What It Is feels, in the words of its reviews.

We show our working. We never sell a place in it.

How synff is paid for, and what that never touches.

No ads. We don’t sell your data, and advertisers never see your taste.
When you buy through Find a copy, some shops pay us a commission. It never changes what we recommend, or the order shops appear in.
Supporter changes how much room you have, never what gets recommended.

Free to use. Yours to support.

The whole listening practice is free, and stays free. Supporter is for listeners who want more room, and want to keep an independent music company going.

Free

A Drop of six records, with a credit back each Monday
Notes, Recap and your Fingerprint
Rotation, your Crate, Discogs import and Find a copy

Supporter

Everything in Free, plus:

Room to hold four Drops instead of one
Vibe Finder, to follow a record’s feeling somewhere new
A copy of the annual magazine, once it is printed

Vibe Finder following the playful bass and sadness of It Is What It Is to Alif Hilal’s Hymnal — Vibe Finder starts from a record you have. Say what you love about it, in your own words, and follow that feeling somewhere you might not have thought to look.

Your year, in print.

We’re making a printed annual about the meaning people find in music: criticism, artist stories, photography, record shops and local scenes.

Each issue will be able to carry a chapter about your year with synff: the records you kept and the notes you left. Every listener will be able to add it.

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