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Himmelluft

Hand-curated radio On air from the Øresund shore

Every song is picked by a person, not an algorithm. Programmes go out at set times, the host talks between the records, and everyone hears the same thing. When a programme ends, the station is quiet until the next one.

iPhone · iOS 18 or later · free
The music needs an Apple Music subscription. The talk between songs does not.
The Himmelluft app on an iPhone, on a coral background. At the top, under the small heading Himmelluft radio and the line Hand-curated music, the programme name Jazz in Bearnaise in a large serif typeface over two lines, the second in italics. Below it on the left a sculpture of seventeen thin black overlapping circles. On the right a small label reads In your ears, then the song title Journey in Satchidananda (feat. Pharoah Sanders), the artist Alice Coltrane, the time 1:54 of 6:36 and a heart. At the bottom a round black play button, the word Listen, the programme name Jazz in Bearnaise and with Jesper Henriksen.
On air. The big title is the programme.
A white sheet over the app titled Now playing. It shows the album cover of Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda, the song and artist name, a heart, and three buttons: Open in Apple Music, Search on Spotify, and Recently played and likes.
Tap the song to see the album and find it again.
The same coral screen between programmes, with the big title back to Himmelluft. Instead of a song it says Silence on air above a large countdown, 9:59:33, and until the next broadcast. At the bottom a button with a radio-wave symbol reads Tune in, and the footer gives the next programme as Sunday 13:37, Jazz in Bearnaise.
Between programmes there is silence and a countdown.

The radio

On at set times. Off in between.

There is nothing to browse and no shuffle. Open the app during a programme and you join it where it is, maybe halfway through a song.

Between programmes the screen counts down to the next one. Press Tune in, leave the app open, and it starts by itself.

The music

The songs play from your own Apple Music.

Himmelluft doesn't stream music. The schedule names each song, and your iPhone plays it from your Apple Music subscription. So you need a subscription, and the artists get paid as usual.

Tap the song that's playing to see the cover, album, year and label. You can open it in Apple Music or search for it on Spotify.

Why Apple Music

Because the artists should get paid.

A radio station pays licence fees to play music. Himmelluft is a hobby that makes no money, so I can't. Instead every song plays from your own subscription, and each play is paid for like any other.

Why Apple and not Spotify? Apple isn't perfect either, but to me it's the lesser of two evils. I'd rather not support what Spotify spends its money on, like its Joe Rogan deal.

Limits

What it doesn't do.

Status

In review for the App Store.

Getting it

Himmelluft is in App Store review. It will be free for iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and the link will be here when it's out.

Questions go to the support page. The privacy policy says what the app sends and doesn't. If something's wrong, tell me.

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