Android

If your friend has an Android, they can't use Vibes yet.

It's being built. Drop your email and you'll hear first.

Why this exists

The whole point of Vibes is sharing songs with people you trust.

Which falls apart the second one of those people has a phone Vibes doesn't run on. iOS came first because that's where I live and where I could move fastest. But "sharing a song with the people whose taste you trust" doesn't work if half of those people are on Android and the app shrugs at them.

So I'm building it. Same backend, same data model — when you and your Android friend both end up on Vibes, the song you send moves between you in seconds, same as it does between two iPhones today.

What v1 will have

The send-and-receive loop. First. Properly.

First Android release will cover the parts of Vibes that everything else is built around — phone-number sign-in, your profile, your Song of the Day, sending a friend a song with a note, receiving one back, push notifications when it lands. The core loop.

That's the version I'd let an Android friend install. Smaller than the iOS app today, but the parts that matter most.

What v1 won't have

A few things are iOS-only on purpose.

I want to be straight about this so nobody installs the Android version expecting feature parity and gets disappointed. Some of these will get figured out over time. Some won't, because they're not possible.

Snap a Song Shazam's SDK is iOS-only. Android equivalent costs money per recognition and isn't free for the user, so it's deferred until I know the audience cares enough.
Moment picker The vinyl scrubber for picking which 30 seconds of a song to send is a real piece of engineering. Android receivers will see the picked moment your iOS friend chose — they just can't pick one back yet.
Apple Music There is no public Apple Music SDK on Android, so in-app full-track playback isn't possible. Songs open in Spotify or the iTunes preview clip instead.
Haptics The iOS app does a lot with the Taptic Engine. Android's vibration motor is one buzz. Most micro-interactions just won't have a physical companion.
iMessage extension Doesn't exist on Android. You'll still be able to share via any chat app — there just won't be a Vibes-native sticker pack inside Google Messages.
Watch & CarPlay Wear OS and Android Auto are different surfaces with different audiences. Skipping both for now.
When

No date.

I'd rather not commit to a release date I might miss. I'm one person, the foundation is in place, and the rest is iterative work to get to something I'd actually want my own friends to install. When it's ready, the people on this list hear first.

Hear about it first

Drop your email. That's it.

One email when the Android version is installable. No newsletter, no drip campaign, no "here's another update" follow-up. One email, one time, when the thing actually exists.

Used only to ping you once when the Android beta opens. Privacy.

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