Listening Journal

A journal for attentive listening

Plan what to hear.
Remember what moved you.

Build listening lists, record the performances and releases you explore, and look back on the music that stayed with you.

Private by default. No ratings required.

Plan → Explore → Remember

Give your listening a longer life.

From the first recommendation to the memory you return to years later.

01

Follow your curiosity

Begin with a recommendation, a composer you want to understand, or two performances you want to compare. Turn passing interest into a path through the music.

02

Listen with attention

Log the recording or release, capture an impression, and remember the particular performers who made the experience what it was.

03

See where listening took you

Return after a month or a year to rediscover what you explored, which performers kept appearing, and which music stayed with you.

Listening projects

Turn recommendations into listening.

Collect recordings you want to hear, compare interpretations of one work, or work through a critic’s essential choices. Keep each list private, or publish it when it is ready to share.

Create your first list

Listening list

An ideal Beethoven cycle

3 of 9 heard
  1. Symphony No. 3George Szell · Cleveland Orchestra
  2. Symphony No. 5Carlos Kleiber · Vienna Philharmonic
  3. 3Symphony No. 7Choose an interpretation

A listening history worth returning to

Remember more than the title.

Streaming history rarely tells you which orchestra you heard, who conducted it, why you chose that recording—or whether it was the one that finally made the piece click.

Listening Journal keeps the work, performers, recording and your own words together, without asking you to rate the experience.

Recently listened5 August

Hans Pfitzner

Symphony No. 2

Herbert von Karajan · Berlin Philharmonic

Darkly luminous. The quiet passages kept unfolding long after the final chord.

Use it like an app

Keep your journal close.

Install Listening Journal from Safari for a full-screen experience and read-only access to your latest 100 journal entries when you are offline.

  1. 1

    Open Listening Journal in Safari on your iPhone.

  2. 2

    Tap Share, then choose Add to Home Screen.

  3. 3

    Enable Open as Web App, tap Add, and open your journal online once.

Keep the music you hear

Build a listening history you will want to revisit.

Start your journal

Currently in early access. Your feedback will help shape what comes next.

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