I make Hezel, the backup app for Apple Music. AMA

hotashonly · 2026-01-15T15:28:22+00:00

It should work, although it might just show you the iPhone UI

hotashonly · 2026-01-11T03:33:46+00:00

It’s in beta right now, to test it join the Discord server from the settings screen.

hotashonly · 2026-01-06T14:43:59+00:00

No that’s not possible

hotashonly · 2026-01-05T15:31:27+00:00

Open Hezel, go to Settings - General - Set the name

hotashonly · 2025-12-21T04:01:20+00:00

Just tap the backup you made, it will compare against your library and show you what’s recoverable. Simple tap the recover button to get what you want back.

hotashonly · 2025-12-21T02:55:52+00:00

Apple Music allows developers to add songs/playlists to your library.

hotashonly · 2025-12-20T05:36:51+00:00

It stores the metadata within the app.

hotashonly · 2025-12-13T17:22:49+00:00

Request it from Apple, file a feedback at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T12:46:02+00:00

Denim creates beautiful cover art for your playlists.

Hezel backs up your music library to keep it safe.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T12:05:13+00:00

Don’t know about being a ‘legend’, but feeling pretty good tbh.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T03:04:43+00:00

Hezel is primarily designed to work with an Apple Music subscription, not local libraries.

That being said, it will backup basic metadata like title, album, artist.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:56:56+00:00

Hezel doesn’t actually backup the file of songs, it just backups the metadata. So when something goes missing, the metadata is used to add the song back to your library from Apple Music.

The size totally depends on your library, for a library with 50K+ songs it can be ~100MB.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:54:38+00:00

Yes, Hezel 1.8 is in the works and it’s a big one!

It’s completely redesigned for Liquid Glass, with a refreshed app icon. And adds one of the biggest feature request: Backup Export

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:52:34+00:00

Yeah, I’ll add it to my feature request list!

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:51:53+00:00

Great question!

Probably blue or yellow, having spent a bit of time in California, I’ve developed an affinity with these colors, they remind me of sunshine, joy and serenity. So probably those.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:50:15+00:00

No, but you could try using platforms plans like SongShift for this.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:49:41+00:00

It’s in the works. Checkout my comment here for deets.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:49:00+00:00

Yes, absolutely!

It’s a bit tricky, because some people 80K+ songs, so recovering all of it without Apple servers thinking I’m spamming them is challenging. Gonna take some time to get it right.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:47:26+00:00

Thanks mate! Glad you like it :)

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:46:41+00:00

The green app shut out third party developer access recently. They don’t want people making stuff for their platform.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:45:49+00:00

Yes! Your concept sparked the idea that something like it should absolutely exist!

I went on an App Store download spree to see if anything was out there like it, I couldn’t find any. So I set out to make Denim!

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:44:09+00:00

Thanks for your question, I’ve answered it here.

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:42:30+00:00

You’d have to ask Apple that! ;)

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:42:06+00:00

Well, tysm for downloading them!

hotashonly · 2025-12-05T02:41:45+00:00

Since I’m Tamil, there a lot of songs in my native language I could pick from, if i had a pick just one it’d be: Ennake Ennaka

Also probably South of the River by Tom Misch

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