Poetry is a native macOS player for your own music library. It plays your hi-res files bit-perfectly, shows you precisely what happens to the sound on its way to your DAC, and never invents a detail it can't back up.
Point Poetry at your library and it does the careful, unglamorous work of getting every file to your DAC intact — and telling you the truth about it.
PCM and native DSD play untouched when nothing in the chain needs to change them. Leave every effect off and what reaches your DAC is what's on disk.
A live readout shows each step from source to output — decode, volume, format — and flags the moment the signal stops being bit-perfect, instead of hiding it.
Every track wears its real format and sample rate — DSD64, FLAC 24/96, and so on — so you can see your collection for what it actually is.
Optional composer-first grouping and movement-aware detail views, for the part of your collection that other apps tend to scramble.
Load a two-band correction profile, or a single impulse response exported from a measurement tool you already use. Optional, off until you turn it on.
Volume, parametric EQ, crossfeed, dither and output format are all there when you want them — each one clearly marked when it takes you off bit-perfect.
Open any track and Poetry lays out the whole journey: the source format, every conversion in between, your volume stage, and what finally lands at the output. If something downstream forces a change, you'll see it — not a vague "lossless" label.
Browse by track, album, artist or playlist. Metadata comes from open sources and is always attributed — when a bio or cover comes from somewhere, Poetry says where. When something's missing, it stays blank rather than being faked.
A companion app pairs with your Mac over your local Wi-Fi and stays in sync. Browse the same library, control playback, and see the same honest format and signal-path information — your music never leaves your network.
A lot of audio software is happy to show you a reassuring badge and leave it at that. Poetry takes the opposite view: if a setting changes the sound, you should be able to see it, and the app shouldn't pretend a file is something it isn't.
That's the whole design principle. It shapes every screen.
The signal path is visible and labels the exact point bit-perfect ends.
Missing metadata stays empty. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.
External bios and artwork always say where they came from.
More screens land here as the beta progresses.
Poetry is invite-only while it's being built. Leave your email and we'll reach out when a spot opens — that's the only thing we'll use it for.
No. Poetry plays music you already have — local files on your Mac, plus an optional OpenSubsonic server you point it at yourself. There's no catalogue and no subscription.
A Mac on macOS 26 and a music library. A USB or network DAC is recommended to really hear the difference, but Poetry works with your built-in output too. The iPhone remote is optional.
When nothing in the chain needs to alter the audio — no volume change, no EQ, no resampling, and your output device can take the file's native rate — Poetry sends the data to your DAC unchanged. The moment any of that stops being true, the signal-path readout says so.
The macOS app and the Poetry Remote iPhone companion. It's real, working software that we use ourselves — but it's under active development, so some features are still in progress and things can change.
Pricing isn't decided yet, and we'd rather not guess publicly. The beta is free; we'll be upfront with beta members before anything changes.
It's stored so we can send you a beta invite. We don't sell it, share it, or add you to a marketing machine. Reply "remove" any time and it's gone.