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Bard

@bardapp.bsky.social

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Bard is a music app for the rest of us, designed around your local music. We'll be ready for you on Mac and iOS soon.

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Simulator prison for the iOS now playing sheet...

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lyrics work...

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Back in action :) Life has made it a little tough to work on Bard lately but rest assured, work continues!

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Okay I didn’t do this because I got REALLY in the weeds on iOS work. Alpha coming soon

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hi! Finally sending the first macOS builds out to private friends and family testers this week :) closed alpha will expand shortly after! Sign up sheet to come!!!

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

A build of Bard showing the album detail view for Nine Inch Noize - "As Alive as You Need Me to Be" is playing in the miniplayer.

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It's been a polish week for Bard, both UI-wise and under the hood... eventually I do have to put this thing out for testing!!!!

Bard scrolled down through the tracklist of Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, showing a selection of other Yo La Tengo albums. "The Story of Yo La Tango" from the same album is playing.

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Expected a whole lot more mess when it came to macOS 27 Golden Gate, but Bard is looking good for a first compile on the new SDK :) Got some work to do!

A build of the music app Bard on macOS 27 Golden Gate, showing the visualizer view. "I Ran" by A Flock of Seagulls is playing.

A build of the music app Bard on macOS 27 Golden Gate, showing the album detail view for Vince Staples' album Cry Baby. "Blackberry Marmalade" by Vince Staples is playing.

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Work continues! Today: toiling in iPadOS UI.

A close up UI screenshot of the iPadOS Simulator showing an in-progress build of Bard for iPad. “Acts of Magic” by Boards of Canada is playing. My macOS cursor is visible because I forgot to move it.

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Morning everybody! There’s a lot of you! Here’s some screenshots of Bard for iOS…. still a bit of work to be done here (peep that AirPlay button without a bubble lol) but it’s great so far! The third screenshot is the visualizer activated on iOS… long press on your art and zone out!

Bard for iOS playing “Prophecy at 1420 Mhz” by Boards of Canada and in the album view for FM! by Vince Staples.

Bard for iOS playing “Prophecy at 1420 Mhz” by Boards of Canada and in the Recently Added view.

Bard for iOS playing “Prophecy at 1420 Mhz” by Boards of Canada and showing the visualizer

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Chiitan co-sign??? Bard has the mandate of heaven??? It bodes well!!!

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Discord Rich Presence now working in Bard dev builds! Yes, everyone in my various friend group servers *needs* to know I'm listening to the deepest possible Paul McCartney cuts. Why else does the feature exist?

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Bard @bardapp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hi! This is the official Bluesky account for Bard - a music app for the rest of us. We're working on an app centered around speed, with a focus on the local files on your hard drive or media server. We'll be launching on macOS and iOS first, but keep an eye out for multiplat releases shortly after!

Bard on macOS viewing the album no droids on the beach by ff00ff.

Bard on macOS showing a visualizer, playing "lost it" by ff00ff.

Bard on macOS' Home view, showing recently plaayed, recently added, and most played songs and albums.

Bard on macOS showing the Albums view, with a grid of albums.

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