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Name songs without reaching for your phone.

Start Jackal and put your phone away. It listens in the background and saves each song it hears, with when and where you heard it.

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One Saturday, caught in the background.

Eight songs, and the phone never came out of a pocket. Each one saved with the time and the place.

  1. Slow Orbit

    Mara Vale

    8:52 AM · Café

  2. Neon Pastoral

    The Glasshouse Choir

    11:20 AM · Record store

  3. Weekday Heat

    Dulce Rivera

    1:05 PM · Gym

  4. Cloudline Drive

    Northbound Tapes

    3:40 PM · In the car

  5. Orange Hours

    Ito & the Tides

    6:15 PM · Park

  6. Second Floor Lights

    Juno Park

    8:30 PM · Friend's place

  7. Velvet Static

    Hollow Coast

    10:45 PM · Bar

  8. After the Encore

    Kestrel Row

    11:58 PM · Rooftop

Example day. Songs, artists and places are illustrative.

Your music, on a map.

Jackal pins each song it catches to the place you heard it, so your history is somewhere you can go back to, not just a list.

  • Pinned where you heard itThe café, the car, the friend's place. Every catch keeps its spot.
  • Time and place, togetherEach song remembers when it played as well as where.
Illustrative map and songs.

Relive the weekend, set by set.

Tell Jackal which festival you're at and who you're watching. You leave with a soundtrack for each set you saw.

  • Sorted by setPick who you're watching and each song lands in the right set.
  • Bring your scheduleImport your plan from your own calendar.
  • Works without signalSongs are saved on your phone and matched once you're back online.

Festival mode is part of Jackal Premium.

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You decide when it listens.

Jackal only listens when you turn it on, and it keeps songs, never sound.

  • Off until you turn it onBackground listening starts when you start it, and stops whenever you want.
  • Matched, then discardedShort samples are matched against songs, then thrown away. Jackal never stores your audio.
  • Always visibleThe app and its widget show when Jackal is listening.
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Stop losing the good ones.

Jackal is coming soon to iPhone. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the day it launches.

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