Finally, a music streaming app that can’t sell out.
daps combines music streaming and the merch table in a mission-locked structure so more of music’s money reaches the people who make it.
Launching early 2027.
The cut daps takes only goes down.
On streams and on everything artists sell, daps takes the smallest cut it can run on. It can never grow by paying artists less.
The merch table sits next to the music.
Shirts, vinyl, tickets, and the tip jar are one swipe from where the song plays, so no one has to go hunting to support the artists they love.
Music knowledge belongs to everyone.
Every release, every credit, every sample, every show is kept honest by the artists and fans who know the music best.
for artists and labels
Your presence on daps is yours to build.
The screens a fan sees when your music is playing are composed by you: what’s on them, in what order, in your colors, with your art.
Sell your merch. Put your tour up, whether the tickets are sold through daps or somewhere else. Let people pay you directly. Tell the story behind the music in your own words, and put the photographs from the session next to it.
Setting it up is quick and easy, and our tools help you build it from what you already have: your art, your photos, your catalog. Every artist deserves a polished presence, not just the ones with a marketing budget.
What daps does for artistsfor fans
Everything you love about the music, in one place.
The lyrics. The tab you worked out. What that beat was sampled from. Who the bass player is and what else they played on. The tour dates. The shirt.
All of it sits beside the music instead of across five browser tabs and three sites that make their money selling your attention. One swipe from the song, and you see it the way the artist wants it to be seen.
Where something is missing, you can fill it in: a tab nobody has transcribed, a credit nobody caught, a sample only you spotted.
What daps does for fansthe catalog
The only streaming service that tells music’s whole story.
Every song came from somewhere. Somebody wrote that horn line, somebody else looped it twenty years later, and a room full of people played the version you know by heart.
the story behind it
Who played on it, what it sampled, who sampled it later, which room it was cut in, which tour it came out of. And see it all connected as you're listening.
the whole discography
Everything is visible, even what daps cannot play. It stays dated, credited, and greyed out with the honest reason, instead of quietly disappearing the way it does everywhere else.
anyone can fix it
A session player naming themselves, an artist correcting a credit, a fan who tracked down a rights holder. Anything here can be corrected, and daps moderates the corrections rather than deciding what is true.
the math
Four easy ways to pay artists less. daps won’t use any of the four.
Every streaming service keeps a share of what you pay. The rest goes into a pot, and the plays split it among the labels, publishers, and artists behind the music.
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No free tier, and no ads.
Ads bring in a fraction of a subscription for the same plays.
02
No price that bundles music with other products.
Subscriptions that include non-music products like audiobooks, cloud storage, and shipping reduce payments to artists.
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No promotions funded out of artists’ pockets.
A free or discounted month elsewhere comes out of the same pot the artists are paid from.
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No growing daps by paying artists less.
daps only grows its revenue by increasing users, not paying artists less.
our promise
Everyone says this. We wrote it into our DNA.
Every music app started out saying it was for the artists. daps builds this promise into its legal structure, so it always holds.
daps is forming as a Delaware public benefit corporation, which makes the mission the company’s legal purpose instead of a page on its website. The share of music’s money reaching the people who made it has to keep going up.
Control of the mission is held by people bound to it, and it stays held there no matter who owns the company.
How we keep itprivacy and transparency
No ads. No tracking. You are not the product.
What daps does not do.
No ads, anywhere. No behavioral tracking. Even this website counts page views on servers we run ourselves. Every setting that touches your privacy starts at its most private value. We only ask for what the service actually needs.
What you can see.
The algorithm behind your recommendations, in a view you can edit. The daps fees on every transaction. The platform’s own source, readable by anyone (with exceptions only to protect privacy and security). And its audited financials.
keep me posted
The future of music is open.
daps is pre-launch and building in the open.