My kid is 9. I feel like this is a good fit with how I would like her to experience music, especially the sharing and curation part. I have a few questions...

1. I bought her an "old school" mp3 player for Christmas, like an iPod. It's pretty good, but it's really missing the easy to use app similar to the original iTunes where she can load and manage songs by herself, without needing me to grab them from a folder, plug in the device, copy the songs across after it mounts, etc. Does Muky provide that functionaliy, like an iTunes for kids before everything went streaming and on-device?

2. She also loves audiobooks. You mention audiobooks, alongside Apple Music (I don't have Spotify). Does Apple Music support audiobooks? I would love a similar interface that promotes discover of songs, but for audiobooks.

Congrats on getting this out there. I truely believe there is a viable niche for kids music apps that sits between toddler and access to all-the-music-in-the-world-at-your-fingertips that becomes a huge time sink for kids who can't quite self regulate the shiny interface of modern streaming apps on mobile phones. I almost went down a rabbithole of building one myself, thinking, how hard can it be...thank you for saving me the 2 years to understand its hard! :-)

Thanks! You nailed the niche – that gap between toddler devices and full streaming access is exactly where Muky sits.

To your questions:

1. Unfortunately no – Muky only works with streaming content from Apple Music or Spotify. No local MP3 support or syncing to external devices. You'd still need something like the old iTunes workflow for that MP3 player. Local file support comes up often though, it's on the roadmap.

2. There's actually a lot of audiobook content on Apple Music – especially kids stuff. The new Browse tab in Mukychas curated audiobooks to help you discover them.

And yes – "how hard can it be" is a dangerous question. Found that out myself!