What’s new
Every change since Cloudtape came out in September, newest first.
1.1.4iPhone and AndroidNovember 2026
Who you’re listening to.
Open an artist or an album and there’s a short bio under the buttons, with a link to read the rest. Bios come from Release Wave and Last.fm, and they’re kept on your phone, so they’re there offline too.
The right band.
Lots of bands share a name. When Cloudtape can’t be sure a bio is about the one in your library, it shows nothing rather than someone else’s story.
Deleted albums go away.
Deleting an album from your Dropbox now removes it from Cloudtape too. Any copy that came back twice before is cleared on the next sync.
1.1.3iPhoneOctober 2026
Cloudtape in the car.
CarPlay used to be a list of songs. Now it’s most of the app, and none of it streams. Everything in the car plays from your phone, so it keeps going through tunnels and out where there’s no signal.
It starts on its own.
Plug in your phone and Cloudtape is on the screen, even when it isn’t open on your phone.
Pick up where you left off.
Recent starts with anything long you stopped partway through, like a mix or an audiobook, and how much of it is left. Below that is what you added, by month, from Dropbox and from your phone.
Find it with a glance.
A big library opens on A to Z, so you pick a letter instead of scrolling a long list at a red light.
Now Playing does more.
Shuffle, repeat, a speed button for long tracks, a button that opens the album, and Up Next, where you can play or remove what’s coming.
Your smart playlists come too.
The ones you set up on your phone are in the car and keep themselves up to date.
Sketches, not screenshots. Your car draws CarPlay its own way.
Much faster with a big library.
40s → 2s
If you include the music already on your iPhone, Cloudtape used to save every song again each time you opened it. With 30,000 songs on the phone, that took about 40 seconds, and the app felt slow the whole time. Now it only saves what changed, which takes about 2.
Play counts include the Music app.
Songs you played in Apple’s Music app count in your Library too.
Disc 1, disc 2.
Albums on more than one disc are split the way the sleeve has them.
One page to scroll.
Album and playlist pages scroll as one page, header and all.
You can see what you tapped.
Songs and albums light up under your finger.
What doesn’t change.
Updates add things. These stay the same.
Nothing streams.
Every song is on your phone before you play it, at home, on a plane or in the car.
It syncs on its own.
Add an album to Dropbox on your computer and it turns up on your phone. You don’t press anything.
$2.99, once.
No subscription. Every update on this page came free to everyone who already paid.
Your music stays.
If you don’t pay after the 14 days, syncing stops, and everything you’ve downloaded keeps playing.
Earlier.
1.1.2October 2026
Moved albums play again.
An album you moved or renamed in Dropbox skipped through every track instead of playing. It plays now, and any that were stuck download again on their own.
1.1.1October 2026
Straight to your library.
No spinner after the launch screen, and no “Nothing here yet” for a moment before your music appears.
1.1October 2026
Up Next, smart playlists, stats and storage.
- Up Next. Play a song next or add it to the queue from its menu, and see what’s coming from Now Playing.
- Smart playlists. Build a playlist from rules and it keeps itself up to date.
- Listening stats, under Settings: what you’ve been playing.
- Storage limits, under Settings: how much room Cloudtape can take on your phone.
Also, buying Cloudtape starts syncing straight away, and the Sync tab no longer asks you to reconnect Dropbox after the phone has been locked for a while.
1.0.2September 2026
The right artist names.
Some MP3s showed a folder name as the artist, because their song details sit after a large cover image. Cloudtape reads them now, and songs with no details at all are no longer scrobbled to Last.fm.
1.0.1September 2026
Last.fm gets its own page.
Choose what never gets scrobbled, by title, artist, album or Dropbox folder. Turn “now playing” on or off, and remove scrobbles, including ones already sent. The download bars on the Sync tab also fill in as each album arrives.
1.0September 25, 2026
Cloudtape comes out.
Your Dropbox music on your phone, playing with no signal.
