Prismatic Music · Formats
A FLAC player for iPhone, Mac, and Android
Apple's Music app still won't play a FLAC file. Prismatic Music plays your lossless collection natively — FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF — right alongside your MP3s.
If you care enough about music to buy it in lossless, you've hit the wall: FLAC — the format Bandcamp, Qobuz, and virtually every independent store delivers — isn't supported by the built-in Music app on iPhone or Mac. The usual workarounds are converting everything to ALAC or juggling a second-rate player.
Prismatic Music plays FLAC natively, along with ALAC (Apple Lossless), WAV, AIFF, MP3, and AAC/M4A. Files play as they are — no conversion step, no re-encoding, no quality lost to a workaround. Import a mixed folder of FLAC albums and old MP3s and it's all just one library.
And because it's an offline player, your lossless files stay local: no cloud transcoding, no streaming-tier upsell — the bits you bought are the bits that play.
Format support that respects your collection
FLAC, natively
The de-facto lossless standard — what Bandcamp and audiophile stores deliver — plays directly. No converting to get your purchases onto your phone.
ALAC / Apple Lossless
Already living in Apple's ecosystem? ALAC files (.m4a) import and play natively too.
WAV and AIFF
Uncompressed masters, bounces, and session exports play as-is — useful far beyond finished albums.
MP3 and AAC
The formats your collection actually accumulated over twenty years. Everything lives together in one library.
No transcoding, ever
Prismatic Music plays your files directly rather than converting them — what you imported is what you hear.
Lossless offline is the point
Streaming lossless tiers cost extra and evaporate when you unsubscribe. Files you own play at full quality forever.
FLAC & Lossless — FAQ
Not with the built-in Music app — Apple supports its own ALAC format instead. To play FLAC on an iPhone you need a third-party player: Prismatic Music plays FLAC natively, with no conversion.
FLAC, ALAC (Apple Lossless, .m4a), WAV, AIFF, MP3, and AAC/M4A — the formats real collections are made of. Files play natively, without a conversion step.
Sonically they're equivalent — both are lossless, so both reproduce the original audio exactly. FLAC is the open standard most stores deliver; ALAC is Apple's equivalent. The practical difference is compatibility, which is why Prismatic Music plays both.
Bluetooth re-compresses audio, so you won't get bit-perfect lossless over most Bluetooth headphones. Lossless still matters over wired output and high-quality codecs — and a lossless file is the right master copy to keep either way.
No — that's the point. FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, and AAC all import and play as they are.
More of Prismatic Music
All features →Import Your Library
Bring in music from your Apple Music library, the Files app, or whole folders on Mac — your collection, one player.
Equalizer
A 10-band graphic EQ with 22 presets — from Bass Booster to Spoken Word — so every track sounds the way you want.
Music Visualizers
Real-time, beat-reactive visuals rendered live from the song that's playing — on your own music library.
Your lossless library deserves a native player.
Prismatic Music launches August 2026 — free, offline, and fluent in FLAC.
Coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android — August 2026