Riffbox for Mac · Free
Every riff you've ever played, in one box that knows which ones fit together.
Record an Idea in seconds, with nothing to set up. Riffbox finds its key and tempo, then shows you which of your Ideas belong in the same song.
macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon or Intel · No account
Install before cloud sync ships and you're a founding member →
A DAW is organized by song. You don't write by song.
You write in moments: five minutes on the riff that's been stuck in your head all day, or a two-hour jam with three great minutes in it. A DAW wants a project, a name and a folder before it keeps any of that.
In Riffbox, each moment is an Idea. It doesn't ask what the Idea is for, because you don't know yet. Later, it shows you.
Where are you starting?
45 MINUTES AFTER WORK
Press record.
That's the setup.
Record your interface, or the sound of an amp sim or soft synth straight from the app, with no DAW session. Save your rig once, and next time you just play. Press R for another take.
A BACKLOG OF RIFFS
Your backlog already has songs in it.
Drop in your old recordings. Riffbox finds each one's key and tempo, and Find compatible Ideas shows which ones fit together, across your whole box. Then build them into Songs.
WORDS FIRST
The lyrics and the recording, together.
Start with Lyrics opens a full-screen pad that counts syllables as you write. Record the melody beside the words, on the same Idea.
It comes with a song you can take apart.
Riffbox comes with a short song, recorded as Ideas. A quick tour records over its groove, shapes a take and plays the song back, so you can see the whole thing work before you plug anything in.
Yours, on your Mac.
No account
Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to cancel.
Your music isn’t held hostage
Your box is folders of WAV files. If Riffbox disappeared tomorrow, you’d open the folder.
Nothing you make leaves your Mac
Riffbox only reaches out to check for updates, and you can turn that off. Watch it with Little Snitch if you like.
Free, for everything on your Mac
Not a trial, and no cap.
Runs on the Mac in your practice room
macOS 13 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.
What it doesn’t do
It isn’t a DAW: it feeds yours, with stems exported on the grid. It’s Mac only. And there’s no cloud yet, so your box lives on one Mac for now.
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Have Riffbox before cloud sync ships, and you're a founding member.
Riffbox is free, forever, for everything that runs on your Mac. Cloud sync, and working on songs with other people, will cost money when they arrive, because servers do.
A direct line to the person building it
Every email reaches me, and founding members are who I ask what cloud sync should do first.
Cloud sync at $4.99 a month, for life
When it arrives. The window stays open at least until March 1, 2027.
There's nothing to sign up for. Riffbox keeps the day you installed it, on your Mac. The list is how you'll hear when cloud sync is ready.
Why it exists
Riffbox is made by one musician, for musicians with day jobs and not much time. It's here to make the music easier to finish, not to be one more thing to manage. If something breaks or confuses you, email me.
— T
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