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.
A journal for attentive listening
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
From the first recommendation to the memory you return to years later.
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.
Log the recording or release, capture an impression, and remember the particular performers who made the experience what it was.
Return after a month or a year to rediscover what you explored, which performers kept appearing, and which music stayed with you.
Listening projects
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 listListening list
A listening history worth returning to
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.
Hans Pfitzner
Herbert von Karajan · Berlin Philharmonic
Darkly luminous. The quiet passages kept unfolding long after the final chord.
Use it like an app
Install Listening Journal from Safari for a full-screen experience and read-only access to your latest 100 journal entries when you are offline.
Open Listening Journal in Safari on your iPhone.
Tap Share, then choose Add to Home Screen.
Enable Open as Web App, tap Add, and open your journal online once.
Keep the music you hear
Currently in early access. Your feedback will help shape what comes next.