for fans
More of your money, reaching the artists you love.
You already pay for music every month. daps is built so more of it reaches the artists, whether you’re streaming or buying from their store.
The shirt and the ticket, right there.
Merch, tickets, and a tip jar sit next to the song instead of three sites away. daps takes the smallest cut it can run on, and the rest goes to the artist.
Every play is one somebody paid for.
No free tier, no ads. Free listening waters down what every play is worth.
Mission-locked from day one.
The share of music’s money reaching the people who made it has to keep growing. This purpose is written into the daps charter.
discovery
An algorithm you can see and steer.
You know what kind of music you love, and daps can help you find more of it. You can set it by hand, or let daps learn from what you play, or anywhere in between.
Open it up and look: the artists, genres, eras, and songs shaping what you get played, each with a dial you can turn up or down, for now or for good. Push toward the familiar or toward the unknown. Stay in one mood or range widely. You can even turn up an artist you rarely play but who shaped everything you like.
Learning from what you play is off until you turn it on. You can switch it off again whenever you like, see everything it has picked up, and change any of it.
one place
The whole story of a song, beside the song.
Right now, being a fan means three open tabs, a search engine, and half a dozen apps. daps brings it all together where the music is.
Everything can be found in one place.
Lyrics, the tab, the credits, what it sampled, the annotations, the tour, the shirt. One swipe away, and it looks the way the artist wanted it to look.
Even where daps earns nothing.
Tickets sold through somebody else, merch shipped from the artist’s own store, music licensed elsewhere. Nothing is hidden, and it’s all linked, so you never have to go hunting.
the catalog
What we know about music should be a public good.
Who played what, when, and sampled from where. These are facts, and they belong to everyone. The people who know them best are the creators and fans.
nothing goes missing
Everything is visible, even what daps cannot play. It stays dated, credited, and greyed out with the honest reason, instead of quietly disappearing the way it does everywhere else.
the connections
Who played on it, what it sampled, who sampled it later, which room it was cut in, which tour it came out of. And see it all connected as you’re listening.
and you can fix it
A session player naming themselves, an artist correcting a credit, a fan who tracked down a rights holder. Anything here can be corrected, and daps moderates the corrections rather than deciding what is true.
privacy
daps collects what the service needs, and nothing else.
You don’t give a shop your full demographics to buy an album. There is no reason to tell a music service either.
We only collect what is needed for you to use the service. Every setting that touches your privacy starts private: personalization off, profile private, listening history private, purchases and tips private, unless you decide otherwise.
No behavioral tracking. Artists see what an order needs to ship it and nothing more; they never see one fan’s listening. Tips are anonymous unless you say otherwise.
You can export what you wrote, your history, your purchases, and your taste model at any time, in open formats. And leaving is as easy as joining: step away and come back, or delete for good, and anything held only because you were here is deleted along with it. No retention maze.
See our full privacy policyhuman 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.
build something
A public API anyone can build on.
daps is built on the same API we make publicly available. The database of music knowledge came from artists and from the people who care about the music, so it belongs to everyone.
keep me posted
The future of music is open.
daps is pre-launch and building in the open.