Your music is yours.

Cratebird is made by Joshua Miller. We don’t collect your music activity or track how you use the app. Cratebird has no developer-run servers, advertising, or analytics.

What stays on your device

On Mac, Cratebird stores settings and playlist creation and append history locally, including the original track lists needed to verify appends. On iPhone and iPad, it stores saved page addresses, titles, playlist names, captured or pasted page text, and playlist creation history locally. This history can include song identifiers, import reports, and details of completed or interrupted requests. Cratebird uses it to check whether a playlist change succeeded before trying again.

Apple Music authorization is managed through Apple’s MusicKit. Cratebird does not send Apple Music credentials to your agent or to us.

Shared pages and on-device AI

On iPhone and iPad, sharing from Safari can capture the page address, title, and visible article or page text, up to 80,000 characters. You can review and edit that text in Cratebird. Browser cookies and account tokens are not transferred. The text is saved with the draft. Text you paste or edit is used instead of downloading the page. An untouched Safari capture of a supported playlist page may still lead Cratebird to read the public playlist page for its song details.

If you provide only a link, Cratebird requests the public page from its website without your browser’s sign-in credentials. It reads the returned text on your device without running the page’s scripts or loading its linked resources. The website receives routine connection information associated with that request.

Song recognition uses local rules first. When those rules find no songs, Cratebird may use Apple’s on-device AI on a compatible device running macOS 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26 or later, where the model and language are available. That processing stays on the device. Cratebird does not send pages to a cloud AI service to identify songs.

The Mac share extension receives the web page address you choose to share. It does not capture page text, cookies, or tokens. Pending shared Mac links stay in memory while Cratebird is running.

What goes to other services

Apple Music: Apple receives song searches, song identifiers, playlist names and descriptions, and requests to read, create, add to, or check playlists.
Your agent, on Mac: the agent you connect receives the results it asks Cratebird for, such as song matches and playlist details. Its provider may process or keep your conversations and those results under its own policies. We do not operate that agent or its AI model.
Websites you import from: when Cratebird reads a page, the request goes to that website. This includes public Spotify pages. Some supported playlist links require an additional public page request to read the song list, even when Safari has shared page text. Pasting or editing the song list lets Cratebird use that text instead. Cratebird never runs page scripts.

These services have their own privacy policies. You choose which agent to connect and when it can make changes. Importing pages on iPhone and iPad does not use an external agent.

You control the connection

Agent access on Mac is off by default. Turn it on only for an agent you trust. Turn it off in Cratebird Settings to stop new requests; a playlist change already sent to Apple may still finish. You can revoke Cratebird’s Apple Music permission in your device’s privacy settings.

Sharing or saving a page does not create a playlist. On iPhone and iPad, you review songs and confirm creation separately. On Mac, use your agent’s approval settings to control changes to playlists.

Removing local information

On iPhone and iPad, you can remove saved drafts from Saved Pages. Removing the app also removes its local app data. On Mac, playlist history is stored in Cratebird’s private app folder. For the Mac App Store version, quit Cratebird, then use Finder’s Go → Go to Folder to open ~/Library/Containers/io.joshmiller.MusicBridge.ios/Data/Library/Application Support/MusicBridge/. The Creations and Appends folders contain that history.

Removing an unfinished request’s history prevents recovery and may leave you unable to tell whether a playlist change succeeded. Deleting local history or a saved page does not delete playlists already saved in Apple Music.

This website and support

These pages use no analytics, tracking scripts, advertising cookies, or third-party fonts. This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may process routine connection information, such as your IP address, to deliver and protect these pages. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its practices.

If you contact support, we receive the message and any information you choose to include. Cloudflare Email Routing forwards messages sent to support@cratebird.com to our monitored inbox; our email provider handles delivery and storage. We use your message to respond. Please don’t send passwords or authorization tokens. Remove private playlist information unless it is needed to explain the issue.

Trademark credits

Apple, Apple Music, App Store, iPad, iPadOS, iPhone, Keychain, Mac, macOS, MusicKit, and Safari are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Apple Intelligence is a trademark of Apple Inc. IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries and is used under license.

Cratebird is independent software and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Apple.

Questions

Contact Cratebird support about this policy or your local information.