Bandry Is Live on the App Store: Every Tool an Independent Musician Needs, in One App

It's official: Bandry is live on the App Store. Not a beta, not a waitlist, not a TestFlight invite. The real thing, on iPhone, iPad, and the web, for every musician and every music professional who's been holding a scene together with Facebook groups, dead classifieds, and DMs that go nowhere.

To everyone who rode with us through the beta, posting, linking up, filing feedback, telling us when something felt off: this release is yours too. You shaped the app that shipped, and your founding-member months are running right now as a thank-you. Today's post is for everyone just walking in: here's what Bandry is, what's inside, and why it's built for you, whatever your part of the scene.

One App for Your Whole Music Life

Bandry is a bulletin board for the music world. Post what you need or what you offer. Set it local when the work needs a human in the room, or remote when it doesn't. Local posts only reach people within travel distance, so your feed is never cluttered with a drummer three states away. Remote work, mixing, mastering, production, design, reaches everyone, so a great engineer in a small town can work with bands in fifty cities.

There are exactly two ways to interact, and both take one tap. Fire is a free endorsement, back what you like, no clout economy attached. The link button is the real move: tap it on a post, and the poster gets your contact info. They reach out, and the collaboration happens where it always has, in the real world. No in-app messaging, no comments, no algorithm deciding who deserves to be seen. The board shows real, current needs, newest first, and posts expire after 30 days so nothing rots.

Know Who You're Dealing With

Before you link up with someone, you can see who they are. Profiles carry credibility badges ringed around the photo, Released Work, Session Credits, Touring, Pro Studio, Educator, Sync and Placement, and every badge is tappable to show the work behind it. Released Work lights up automatically when someone links a real streaming profile. What you won't find is a follower count. Receipts, not clout.

Showcase: Honest Feedback on Your Music

Drop a track from Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, or YouTube and get real, private feedback from working peers. Only you ever see your reviews. And you earn your submission by reviewing someone else's track first, so the feedback pool never runs dry and never turns into a promo wall. Every play happens on your own platform, so your streams still count.

Market: Gear Between Musicians, No Middleman

Buy, sell, and trade gear with people who are part of the same ecosystem you are, not anonymous strangers. Photos show the condition honest, filters cut to guitars, amps, pedals, whatever you're hunting, and the deal closes through a link-up, off-platform, face to face or however you like. Bandry takes no cut and charges no fees on gear. Compare that to the 5% plus payment processing you're handing over elsewhere.

Mixtapes: What Your Scene Is Actually Playing

Share playlists from the platforms everyone already uses, matched to the genres you care about. No uploads, no rehosting, every play is a real stream for the artist. It's the closest thing to trading burned CDs in the parking lot that the internet has managed.

Press Kits: The Page That Gets You Booked

The first thing a venue, promoter, festival, or label asks for is a press kit. Bandry builds yours in the app: music, photos, shows, press, highlights, booking contact, themed to your brand, published to a clean public link anyone can open, plus a PDF one-sheet for the contacts who want a file. Services that do only this charge five to twenty dollars a month. Yours is included.

Resources: The Physical World, Mapped

Studios, rehearsal rooms, venues, repair shops, music stores, merch printers, pressing plants, all on Apple Maps, filtered by category, right inside the app. New in town or booking your first session, you can see your whole scene's infrastructure in one screen. Free to browse, always.

And Private Analytics on All of It

Every post, track, mixtape, and press kit comes with insights only you can see: views, endorsements, and link-ups over time, your peak days, and honest tips when a post could be working harder. No public scoreboards anywhere on Bandry. The numbers exist to help you, not to rank you.

Built for Every Walk of the Scene

Everything above reads differently depending on where you stand, and that's by design. A vocalist uses the Bulletin to find a band and Showcase to sharpen the demo. A mixing engineer posts remote availability once and picks up clients from cities they've never set foot in. A photographer or designer puts their rate up front and gets found by every band within driving distance that needs press shots or cover art. A studio or rehearsal space gets discovered on the map and in the feed. A repair tech, a venue owner, a promoter, a manager, a music shop: if your work touches music, there are people on Bandry right now looking for exactly what you do, and the link-up hands them your contact info the moment they raise their hand.

What All of This Costs

Every new account starts with 14 days of everything, free, no card up front. After that, Bandry is $12.99 a month, or $129.99 a year if you'd rather save about 17%. That one price covers all of it: unlimited browsing, posting, link-ups, Showcase, Market, Mixtapes, your press kit, the map, and the analytics. Browsing and endorsing stay free forever.

Stack up what the pieces cost separately, a classifieds membership, a gear marketplace's cut, a feedback community, an EPK host, and you're north of $25 a month across five or six apps, each holding one sliver of your music life. Bandry is one place and one bill, built to be the obvious deal.

Now Help Us Fill the Room

Here's the honest truth about an app like this: the local side runs on density. Every bandmate you bring in, every engineer, every photographer, every venue you tell, makes Bandry sharper for your entire city. A scene fills up one room at a time, and you're standing in the doorway.

So share it. Send bandry.app/get-started to your group chat, your bandmates, the engineer who mixed your last EP, the photographer who shot your last show. When the people you already work with are on the board, the people you haven't met yet show up right behind them.

And if Bandry is working for you, a rating or a quick review on the App Store is the single most effective thing you can do to put it in front of the next musician searching for exactly this. It takes thirty seconds and it genuinely moves the needle for an independent app.

Found a Bug? Want a Feature? Tell Us

Bandry got here on user feedback, real requests and real bug reports from the beta crew, and that loop stays wide open. Open Settings in the app and tap Send feedback, or email support@bandry.app. Suggestions, fixes, something that feels off on your device, all of it lands in front of us, and the roadmap has always been built from exactly these messages.

Let's Go

The classifieds died, the groups got buried, and the DMs were never a booking system. Now there's a purpose-built home for all of it. Download Bandry, start your free trial, put up your first post, and bring your people. Your scene's not going to build itself, but from today, it finally has somewhere to build.