4.0.2
2023-08-04
In our latest major update, BOLD Music 4.0 brought massive updates like insane customization, real-time EQ and audio effects, animated player backgrounds, custom playlists, app-wide redesign, and much more!
This version contains bug fixes and general improvements.
BUG FIXES
- Greatly improves connection and control on the Lock Screen, Control Center, and Dynamic Island music players
- Ask Siri to shuffle and repeat music
- Improves auto-playing the Up Next queue, especially while in the background
- Improves music loading performance
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
4.0.1
2023-07-26
In our latest major update, BOLD Music 4.0 brought massive updates like insane customization, real-time EQ and audio effects, animated player backgrounds, custom playlists, app-wide redesign, and much more!
This version contains bug fixes and general improvements.
BUG FIXES
- Player controls would at times be invisible or distorted
- Player layout and spacing improved for all devices sizes
- Artwork aligns better in the MiniPlayer on larger devices
- AirPlay icon is much more consistent with which device you are connected to
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
4.0
2023-07-25
We have been hard at work on some massive updates to BOLD Music and it is finally time for us to reveal them to you. We have literally rebuilt BOLD Music from scratch, to provide entirely new experiences. Let’s get straight into it!
APP THEME CUSTOMIZATION
- Change the theme of the entire app, throughout all views
- Choose between millions of colors for backgrounds, texts, and accents
PLAYER STYLES
- 6 new player styles; Blobs, Angular, Linear, Colorful, Solid, and Black
- Better use of adaptive color, which uses the colors in a song’s art
- New timed background, Angular, which animates to the current time of the Now Playing song
PLAYER CONTROLS
- Customize your player’s control buttons and swipes
- Choose between next song or skip 5s, 10s, or 15s
- Choose between previous song or rewind 5s, 10s, or 15s
- Swipe in the player to go next, back, skip, or rewind
REAL-TIME EQ AND EFFECTS
- Tap into an 8-band equalizer to adjust the frequencies of music in real-time
- Add reverb effects like plate, small room, cathedral, and more
- Add distortion effects like lofi drums, echo, cellphone concert, and more
- All audio processing is done in real-time without any skipping or delay
PLAYER REDESIGN
- Bigger, bolder time slider
- Minimizes to the MiniPlayer when using Up Next or Audio Effects
- Use Audio Effects and Up Next at the same time
- Customizable swipe gestures for ease of use while driving
CUSTOM PLAYLISTS
- Create your own, custom playlists with an unlimited number of songs
- Customize the animated playlist art by choosing background and text colors
- Listen to community-curated playlists
NOW PLAYING WIDGETS
- Add small and medium widgets to your home and lock screen
- Medium home screen widget shows up next
- Changes dynamically
IMPROVED BROWSE
- 10x improved LOADING performance throughout the entire app
- More sections and better use of recommendations
- Edit your recommendations in Settings
- Top 100 songs interactive view
- Better design and use of space for iPad and Mac
IMPROVED SEARCH
- Search songs, artists, and playlists
- Better relevance filtering to find what you want quicker
- Filter based on what type of item you are searching for
OTHER THINGS
- BOLD Music is now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac!
- Greater details are provided for artists and playlists
- Receive Now Playing notifications
- Updated app icon with 30 alternative customizations
- Redesigned Now Playing dock
- Add playlist and artist songs to Up Next
- Improved shuffling and Up Next management
- Redesigned alerts
- Greatly improved context menus throughout all items (long press a song to see)
- Massive amount of bug fixes (too many to fit on this screen)
3.2
2022-01-27
This version brings many performance and stability improvements. We're also removing targeted ads from BOLD Music to bring a safer experience to our users in addition to new features.
BROWSE
- Discover more music, genres, artists than ever before
- Check out recommended genres for you
ARTISTS
- New design changes
- Fixes issues with design and performance
GENRES
- Design update brings an even better experience
- Fixes an issue where the wrong song would display when haptic pressing
PLAYER
- Fixes design issues with adaptive color
TARGETED ADS
- We refuse to let our users be targeted by ad companies, therefore targeted ads have been removed
OTHER THINGS (BUG FIXES)
- Performance and loading times are better throughout the app
- Loading Browse, artists, and songs is much quicker
- Other minor bug fixes
3.1.1
2021-09-27
This version contains minor bug fixes and general improvements.
IN THIS UPDATE
- Improved support for iOS 15
- Improved support for iPhone 13, iPad, and iPad Mini
- Other bug fixes and stability improvements
3.1
2021-09-17
INTRODUCING BOLD MUSIC+
- Remove all ads, everywhere and forever
- Adaptive color, from a song's album art, to create a beautiful, unique style per song
- Choose between 8 different adaptive color player styles
- Unlock all 15 new app icons
ADAPTIVE COLOR
- BOLD Music creates a color pallet from a song’s album art
- Unique, beautiful yet bold style per song
CUSTOMIZATION
- Choose between 8 player styles that use adaptive color to make BOLD Music your own
- Choose between 15 new app icons
- Choose between dark and light mode or match your device’s style
BUG FIXES/OTHER THINGS
- Occasional crashes when initially loading Browse
- Issues with certain devices running iOS 12 and lower
- Supports iOS 10.3 and above
- Other bug fixes and stability improvements
3.0.2
2021-08-03
This version contains bug fixes and general improvements.
WHAT'S FIXED?
- In certain cases opening the player could freeze the app for some time
- The time remaining in the player would not update
- UI issues with Up Next, especially when looping music
- Other performance and design improvements
3.0.1
2021-07-20
This version contains bug fixes and general improvements.
3.0
2021-07-16
Welcome back to BOLD Music! We're breathing life back into BOLD Music by reworking it from the ground up! Everything is new from the revamped design, to amazing new features, to hundreds of songs. We've completely reimagined what BOLD Music could be and we believe we have brought it to you in the best ways possible. We hope you enjoy the new BOLD Music!
A NEW DESIGN
We have taken what our users loved from the old design, reinvented it, and turned it up to eleven.
- Pushes the edges of design even further
- Intuitive. Beautiful. Seamless
- Supports Dark Mode
- New, customizable app icon
HUNDREDS OF SONGS
We’ve teamed up with Audius to bring you hundreds of new songs.
- Always free
- Stream your music. Say goodbye to huge downloads
ARTISTS
Now you can find not just songs, but artists and see who matches your style.
- A beautiful, unique artist page
- Play or shuffle all songs from an artist or play what you like
GENRES
- Discover new songs based upon the genres you love
LEARNS YOU. FOR YOU.
BOLD Music learns your taste in music as you listen and suggests music you might like.
- Learns your taste in songs, artists, and genres
- Find new songs, artists, and genres so much easier
- Never leaves your device. No one can see it, not even BOLD Music
YOUR LIBRARY
Add songs you like to your library
- Quickly find songs you add to your library
- See only what you want, when you want it
SEARCH
We’ve included a new, powerful search
- Search for songs and artists
UP NEXT
A newly redesigned up next section shows all your songs that are playing next
- Quickly add to the queue by long-pressing a song anywhere you find one
QUICK ACTIONS (iOS 13+)
Long press on almost anything in the app to find quick actions
- Add songs to the Up Next queue
- Add songs to your library
- Love and dislike songs and genres to further customize your recommendations
REBUILT FROM THE GROUND UP
- Runs much smoother and faster
- Built on the latest version of iOS 14
OTHER THINGS/BUG FIXES
- Fully supports iOS 10 to the latest versions of iOS 14
- Supports all new iPhones and iPads
- Supports dark and light mode on iOS 13+
- New dark and light mode icons
- The app’s file size is equal to 4% of the previous version. You read that right
- We didn’t just remove bugs, we destroyed where they lived
2.0
2017-12-22
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Happy Holidays!! We’ve been hard at work on this version and we think that you’re really going to enjoy it! Let’s take a look at what is new in version 2.0!
NEW APP INTERFACE
The app interface has been completely redesigned. There are no more tabs. We are introducing a page that we simply call Home. The Home page displays all the information you need in one place. The Today section shows relevant information about the day such as the Song Of The Day. The Today page also lets you shuffle, and open playlists. The Library section shows all of the available songs that you can play with the app. Pretty straightforward. You can also customize the Home page from the setting on the more page. We have also redesigned the player page. We added some fun animations, added the lyrics to the same page, and added an Up Next section so you can see what song is up next.
PLAYLISTS
We have separated songs into playlists such as the newest music, remixes, songs with lyrics and more! We also have moved your favorites to a playlists. Also, remember to check back because playlists are added all the time!
OTHER THINGS
- Added 10 new songs
- Removed all ads for free
- The Radio feature has been changed to “Shuffle”
- Added the current time and remaining time to a playing song on the player page
- Added 3D Touch Quick Actions to iPhone 6s and newer
- Supports iPhone X
- Supports iOS 11
- Fixed some bugs
1.0.1
2017-07-28
BUG FIXES
- “Listen to Radio” button on the Today view wouldn’t do anything
- The status bar would sometimes be transparent on the Today view
- For some devices, lyrics would jump whenever loaded
- When trying to remove ads, the app crashes
- Other minor bugs