Heart Beats

Your favorites, one tap from playing.

Heart Beats turns the songs you’ve favorited or rated 5 stars in Apple Music into playlists by artist, genre or year. Tap a cover to shuffle.

Download on theApp Store

Free for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
No accounts, no tracking.

Heart Beats on iPhone: 42 artists as a grid of album covers, each with the number of favorite songs

Your favorites, sorted.

Artists

Every artist you love.

Every artist with enough favorites gets a playlist. Raise the minimum to keep only the biggest.

Genres

Every genre, one tap.

Your favorites grouped by the genres in your library, so you can shuffle all your indie folk in one tap.

Years in Review

Press play on any year.

The songs you played most in each year, as a collage of its biggest albums. Tap 2023 and you’re right back in it.

Heart Beats on iPhone with the minimum songs control open

Find more to love

The more you heart, the more shows up.

New to favoriting? A Getting Started card shows you how, and Heart Beats can favorite your most played songs in one go.

Just ask Siri.

“Shuffle Death Cab for Cutie in Heart Beats”

“Surprise me in Heart Beats”

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Most Played Artists The National Beach House Bon Iver Sigur Rós

Your top artists, genres or years. One tap shuffles.

What counts as a favorite?

Songs you’ve favorited in Apple Music (the heart) and songs you’ve rated 5 stars. Heart Beats needs at least 100 to get going; under that, a Getting Started card shows you where to find more.

Does it cost anything?

No. Heart Beats is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

What does Heart Beats send anywhere?

Nothing: no account, no analytics. The one exception is a song you favorite in Heart Beats, which goes straight to your Apple Music account. Privacy policy

Which devices does it run on?

iPhone, iPad and Mac. Version 2.0 is built for iOS 27 and requires it.

Hear the songs you love.

Free on the App Store.

Download on theApp Store