I’m really happy about this one: after several months of work (and 13 beta versions!), Listening Post v2026.1.0 is finally available.
What started out as a simple idea — an always-on Last.fm scrobbler on Mac! — grew into an app that I’m quite proud of: a multi-scrobbler for all your Apple devices.
In case you haven’t checked its updated product page or the revamped documentation yet, here’s what v2026.1.0 does:
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Whatever you shazam on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch lands on your Mac via iCloud (no iOS app required). And your Mac’s mic can recognize whatever’s playing around you — vinyl, a café set, a YouTube tab — locally, with no audio ever leaving the machine.
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Sends it wherever you want. Scrobble to Last.fm, ListenBrainz (and compatibles), Maloja, Rocksky (and compatibles), or plain local CSV/JSONL files. Every channel is optional and independent.
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Does more than scrobble. Find and like your tracks on Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer, post them to Bluesky or Mastodon, or pipe them straight into your own Shortcuts.
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Your listening history. Browse, filter, search, and sort everything LP has ever heard. Cross-device duplicates collapse into a single row (with a little Shazam badge for the ones that came in via iCloud), and you can export the whole history to CSV or JSONL whenever you like.
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Your data stays yours. It all lives on your machine, in formats you can actually work with. You share to services instead of depending on them, so no single service gets to be your source of truth. (That’s the whole #DigitalSovereignty idea, and the reason this app exists.)
A word on pricing
Listening Post was free for the entire beta, and this release moves to a perpetual upgrade license: you buy a version and own it, no subscriptions, ever. It’s €15 as an introductory price. And since you’ve been here through the beta, here’s a little thank-you: use code BETABUDDY for 10% off through the end of June.
If you’ve been here since the early betas: thank you, truly. Your bug reports and feature nudges shaped a huge part of this release. If you’re new, grab it from its product page, set up a channel or two, and tell me what’s good and/or what breaks.
This category is the right place for bugs, ideas, and questions, and you could also send me feedback from inside the app — I read all of it. Peace! 
