so last time a few of u said the ui was slop. fair lol. lmk if the ui needs more tweaking it does but point me in the right direction please :)
crest is a music player for your own files. no streaming, no account, no tracking. every song plays at its own sample rate and it plays basically everything
What’s new in beta 2
- 7 accent colors (mint, amber, ice, rose, violet, lime, orange) + graphite or oled black. album pages pull their colors from the cover art like old itunes, and songs with no art get a generated metal cover
- rebuilt the ui in swiftui, scrolling and the player feel way smoother now
- the deck: swipe up on the player and all the sound stuff is in one place. eq curve, bass/treble/preamp/crossfade knobs, limiter, gapless/crossfade/automix, replaygain
- optional vu meters if u want them (off by default)
- queue comes back where u left it after u close the app
- and the big one: it’s not jailbreak only anymore. there’s a trollstore tipa and a sideload ipa too
Still does everything from before
- formats: flac, alac, wav, aiff, mp3, aac, opus, vorbis, ape, wavpack, mpc, tak, tta, wma, dsd and cue sheets
- playback: gapless, crossfade, and automix which is basically a little dj: starts the blend on the beat, matches tempo, swaps the basslines halfway so they don’t clash, plus echo out and filter sweep styles. albums stay gapless
- eq: 16 band parametric eq, autoeq import, separate eq per output (speaker, airpods, dac etc) and it switches when u connect
- library: replaygain, synced lyrics, smart playlists, ratings, stats
- scrobbling to last.fm and listenbrainz
- extras: widget, carplay, wifi transfer from your pc
Downloads: GitHub releases
- Jailbroken (rootless): update from my repo or grab the .deb
- TrollStore: the .tipa (don’t install it next to the deb, same app id)
- No jailbreak: the sideload .ipa with altstore / sidestore / sideloadly. it’s sandboxed so it can’t see your music app songs and no carplay
heads up: on the sideload build (and maybe trollstore too) wifi transfer is the only way to add music for now. files import might not work yet
Tested on: ios 16.2 and 17.5.1 jailbroken, trollstore, and sideloaded on a stock iphone on ios 27 beta which i did not expect to work lol
Known stuff
- carplay still hasn’t been tested in an actual car
it’s just an app, not a tweak, so no safe mode risk. don’t like it, just delete it
the github readme goes way more into how it all works if ur curious
Bug reports go on the github issues. tell me which build, your ios version and what happened. lmk what u think of the new look
& Hopefully we get that iOS 27 Untethered jb soon been an amazing week guys have a blessed one
ai helped with the code (claude code), all the testing and debugging was me on device