Jam Pod brings the iPod Classic back to Android — real click wheel, monochrome screen, scrolling menus. Plays your own local files and podcasts, not a streaming catalog: FLAC/AIFF support, smart + custom playlists, genre browsing, 5-band EQ, sleep timer with fade, 8 iPod-era themes. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no algorithm. Currently in closed beta — join here to install: [Google Group link]
Hey Product Hunt, maker here!
I built Jam Pod because I missed something very specific: scrolling through my own music library with a physical-feeling click wheel, instead of tapping through yet another algorithm-fed feed.
It's a native Android app (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose) that recreates the iPod Classic UI faithfully — the wheel gesture math, the monochrome screen, the menu scroll — as a front-end for your own local files and podcasts. No streaming service integration: your library, not a catalog someone else curates for you.
A few things I'm proud of under the hood: FLAC and AIFF playback (Android has no native AIFF support — I had to write a custom extractor for it), a sleep timer that actually fades the volume out instead of hard-cutting, and 8 themes ported pixel-for-pixel from the original iPod color lineup.
It's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no ads.
We're in closed beta right now on Play Store — join via the link in the post above and you'll be testing within minutes. I'd love your feedback, especially on the wheel feel on different devices — that's the one thing I can't fully test alone.
Thanks for checking it out!
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This is a nice product, especially because it would allow me to listen to my favourite playlists offline. I mostly create music playlists for different moods on @Suno and then download them onto my devices because I never can trust the internet to always be on my side. Lol. Congrats @gianpaolo_campolion the launch. What customization options are available right now? Skins? UI?
@patofthefuture Hey! thank you for your feedback. Yeah Jam-Pod can work great with this. Your can create your own custom playlist inside the app, and also rename artist or album. As customization you will find 8 different skins, wheel color (mixable between them), light or dark screen, and two different menu interfaces, minimal and classic (iPod style). And also wheel speed and an balanced EQ!!
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Love the idea and your design language! We really need less subscriptions and lean more into things how used to be. I hope to see some love shown at us IOS users as well! Since switching to Iphone this year although I have been enjoying the smoother experience overall, some of Apple's security requirements are really a pain! Like no system wide EQ balancing for music, that means no way to balance any notes from any streaming services like Spotify or Youtube Music or even Apple music. The only way to do so is through an installed app with an offline library AND an Equalizer. Not me nor anyone on Reddit has found a app which does not require a, frankly, outrageous subscription for it. If there are plans to expand under the same monetization model (one time purchase!) I'm sure a lot of us appreciate it!
@kush_raj_chawla Thanks for the feedback! Jam-Pod for iPhone was launched last week, I invite you to take a look. You will find it between my other apps. And yeah the problem you talk about is real, Apple is very strict about a lot of things. I could put an EQ only on the local files music and not for the streamed one.
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This looks fantastic, the click wheel nostalgia alone makes me want to try it. One thing I'd love to see is a simple "lock wheel" toggle that disables touch input during workouts or pocket carry, since accidental scrolls are basically inevitable when the screen is off. Could probably live right in the now-playing screen.
@efeqglThanks a lot! Yeah I was thinking about a toggle to lock the wheel. At the moment when I want to use my phone like an iPod I activate the block on screen for the app so I turn off the screen when in my pocket and when I unlock the phone my Jam-pod is there waiting. I use to do this on my old phone, now I use only as music player with my app.
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Love that this exists, the click wheel on Android feels so right. One thing I'd kill for is being able to import my old iPod's ratings and play counts directly into Jam Pod, maybe through a simple XML export import. That way the smart playlists would actually reflect my listening history instead of starting from scratch. Would make the jump from a dying Classic feel like a true upgrade rather than a fresh start.
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honestly the click wheel scrolling feels so much better than i expected on a touchscreen, and loading my own flac library without any streaming nonsense is kind of a dream. looks great too
@grkemhasanlmce Thanks! Glad you appreciate both the haptics and the look! I focused a lot in a simple and user friendly interface, and haptics was a great part of it!
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This is a nice product, especially because it would allow me to listen to my favourite playlists offline. I mostly create music playlists for different moods on @Suno and then download them onto my devices because I never can trust the internet to always be on my side. Lol. Congrats @gianpaolo_campolion the launch. What customization options are available right now? Skins? UI?
Jam-Pod
@patofthefuture Hey! thank you for your feedback. Yeah Jam-Pod can work great with this. Your can create your own custom playlist inside the app, and also rename artist or album. As customization you will find 8 different skins, wheel color (mixable between them), light or dark screen, and two different menu interfaces, minimal and classic (iPod style). And also wheel speed and an balanced EQ!!
Love the idea and your design language! We really need less subscriptions and lean more into things how used to be. I hope to see some love shown at us IOS users as well! Since switching to Iphone this year although I have been enjoying the smoother experience overall, some of Apple's security requirements are really a pain! Like no system wide EQ balancing for music, that means no way to balance any notes from any streaming services like Spotify or Youtube Music or even Apple music. The only way to do so is through an installed app with an offline library AND an Equalizer. Not me nor anyone on Reddit has found a app which does not require a, frankly, outrageous subscription for it. If there are plans to expand under the same monetization model (one time purchase!) I'm sure a lot of us appreciate it!
Jam-Pod
@kush_raj_chawla Thanks for the feedback! Jam-Pod for iPhone was launched last week, I invite you to take a look. You will find it between my other apps. And yeah the problem you talk about is real, Apple is very strict about a lot of things. I could put an EQ only on the local files music and not for the streamed one.
This looks fantastic, the click wheel nostalgia alone makes me want to try it. One thing I'd love to see is a simple "lock wheel" toggle that disables touch input during workouts or pocket carry, since accidental scrolls are basically inevitable when the screen is off. Could probably live right in the now-playing screen.
Jam-Pod
@efeqglThanks a lot! Yeah I was thinking about a toggle to lock the wheel. At the moment when I want to use my phone like an iPod I activate the block on screen for the app so I turn off the screen when in my pocket and when I unlock the phone my Jam-pod is there waiting. I use to do this on my old phone, now I use only as music player with my app.
Love that this exists, the click wheel on Android feels so right. One thing I'd kill for is being able to import my old iPod's ratings and play counts directly into Jam Pod, maybe through a simple XML export import. That way the smart playlists would actually reflect my listening history instead of starting from scratch. Would make the jump from a dying Classic feel like a true upgrade rather than a fresh start.
honestly the click wheel scrolling feels so much better than i expected on a touchscreen, and loading my own flac library without any streaming nonsense is kind of a dream. looks great too
Jam-Pod
@grkemhasanlmce Thanks! Glad you appreciate both the haptics and the look! I focused a lot in a simple and user friendly interface, and haptics was a great part of it!