for artists, labels, and distributors
Your music deserves more.
More of what a stream is worth, because every play here is one somebody paid for. More say over how your work is presented, because the screens are yours to build. And more ways for the people who already love your music to put money in your hands.
From the stream and from the sale.
Every play on daps is one somebody paid for, not a free play taking an equal slice of a pot it barely paid into. Plus everything you sell sitting next to the song instead of behind a link somewhere else.
Your work, presented your way.
The screens a fan sees while your music plays are yours to compose. Your art, your colors, your order, your words.
Engage with fans on your terms.
Announce your upcoming shows and releases, offer exclusive merch and one-off events to your most dedicated fans, and put out your virtual tip jar.
what a stream is worth
Four easy ways to pay artists less. daps won’t use any of the four.
Every streaming service keeps a share of what subscribers pay. The rest goes into a pot, and the plays split it among the labels, publishers, and artists behind the music.
01
No free tier, and no ads.
Ads bring in a fraction of a subscription for the same plays.
02
No price that bundles music with other products.
Subscriptions that include non-music products like audiobooks, cloud storage, and shipping reduce payments to artists.
03
No promotions funded out of artists’ pockets.
A free or discounted month elsewhere comes out of the same pot the artists are paid from.
04
No growing daps by paying artists less.
daps only grows its revenue by increasing users, not paying artists less.
your space on daps
Not a profile. Somewhere you built.
Every artist on every other service gets the same rectangle with a different photograph in it. Your work doesn’t sound like everyone else’s, so daps gives you the tools to make it look like you.
compose it
Choose the content that shows up on your page, and how it shows up. Make it look like you, with your own assets.
quick and easy setup
Our tools build it from what you already have: your artwork, your photographs, your catalog. You are still the one in control.
nothing hidden
Selling tickets somewhere else, shipping merch through another vendor, catalog licensed elsewhere? daps shows it and links straight out. daps does not hide something just because it makes nothing on it.
everything else you sell
One swipe from the song to the rest of your work.
The moment someone loves a track is the moment they will buy the album, the shirt, or the ticket. On every other service that moment leads to “link in bio.”
merch
Shown in your own colors, on a screen you laid out. Fans buy it without leaving the song.
events and tickets
Listeners can see your upcoming shows in the app no matter who’s selling the tickets. And a ticket sold on daps can never be resold above what was paid, so no scalper profits at your fans’ expense.
tip jar
Fans can pay you directly from the app while listening to your music.
premium memberships
A paid tier for your closest fans. Put what you like behind it: early releases, members-only merch, small shows.
what your fans can find
The catalog tells your whole story.
A discography is a list of titles. What a fan actually wants is everything around them, and most of it has never been in one place.
the real history
Your whole discography, including what daps can’t stream, dated and credited.
every show
Where you played, what you played, who opened. Anyone can fix a setlist, which is how they end up right.
kept true by everyone
Artists and fans build the catalog together, so the details only the people in the room would know end up on the page.
human artistry
Every track has a human behind it.
A real, credited human artist stands behind every track and every video on daps.
What you are listening to is a genuine creative act by a person with something to say, rather than a file a model produced from a sentence. And the money you pay goes to that person, instead of to whoever set up the machine making tracks at volume.
Catalogs elsewhere are filling up with tracks nobody made, and every one of them takes a share of the pool that pays human artists. daps does not host them. That is a commitment about what daps is for, not a filter we hope catches most of them.
bring your music to daps
Let’s talk.
daps is pre-launch, and we are talking now to artists, labels, distributors, and publishers about the first music on it.
keep me posted
The future of music is open.
daps is pre-launch and building in the open.