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Napster has now unveiled new AI-powered app experiences to “bring AI creations and video companions to mobile devices” amid its broader push into the AI space.
Napster—once a peer-to-peer music-sharing platform turned streamer, now a self-proclaimed innovation company “powering the next generation of embodied and agentic AI”—announced a redesign to its mobile app for iOS and Android.
The new app, built entirely around AI-generated content and real-time creation tools, extends Napster’s new direction to mobile and brings users “a unified hub for AI-driven music, podcasts, wellness experiences, and collaborative creation.”
Listeners can interact with the full suite of the previously unveiled “Napster Companions,” explore a growing catalog of AI-generated audio, and “co-create” new work with AI artists in a single platform. The mobile experience is “built for participation, not passive streaming,” to provide users the ability to experiment, collaborate, and publish with AI.
The app represents a new era for Napster, the company says, embracing the future: no traditional record label catalog (read: licensed music), no “rigid playlists”—just “a universe of full adaptive, AI-driven experiences built with listeners and creators at the center.”
“Napster was born to break boundaries, and we’re doing it again,” said John Acunto, CEO of Napster. “We see this as a declaration that the age of passive consumption is over. Fans aren’t here to be fed a playlist. They’re here to co-create, to fuse their identity with AI artists in real time, and to shape the soundtrack of a new era.”
According to Napster, the new app is powered entirely by AI models, composition engines, and creator-driven prompts—rather than licensing content from traditional record labels, something the company hasn’t been too great at in the past.
The app’s functionality can also be explored in a web browser and via a Mac OS app that allows users to interact with “AI experts” through the company’s proprietary Napster View hardware on a dedicated screen. Napster also unveiled its Napster Station, “the first AI concierge,” at CES in Las Vegas.
