Useful before anyone follows you
Rate records, keep notes, save recommendations and build collections from day one. A busy feed is optional, not the price of admission.
A music diary that leads somewhere
Letterboxd,but for music?Follow the rabbit hole.
Raygum gives your listening life a durable home outside any one streaming service. Rate and review records, then follow the credits, equipment, samples, sources and stories that explain why they mattered.
Free · Useful before any friends join · Web and Android
From rating to rabbit hole
Just heard
A record you nearly forgot
“That bassline. Also: why did nobody tell me about track seven?”
Follow the thread
Producer credit
Equipment
Samples + sources
The next record
Raygum is not affiliated with Letterboxd. We simply understand the question.
Where Raygum wins
Other music apps help you count, rate or rank records. Raygum connects what you thought to everything that made the music interesting.
Streaming services remember what kept playing. Last.fm counts it. Rate Your Music ranks it. Musicboard hosts the review conversation. Raygum gives your own judgement a durable home and connects it to the open catalogue and cultural context around each release.
That makes it useful before any friends join, independent of the service playing the music and ready to follow a question much further than the score.
The rating starts a trail
Move from what you thought into the credits, equipment, samples, sources and stories that explain how the music happened.
Your memory lives outside the player
Keep listening on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube or wherever suits you. Raygum holds the thread between them.
Choose by what matters most
Use the specialist.
Choose Raygum for the whole thread.
Choose Last.fm for comprehensive scrobbling, Rate Your Music for charts, Musicboard for the review conversation or Discogs for physical editions. Choose Raygum when your own music history should lead somewhere deeper.
Raygum
Choose Raygum when
Your listening life should lead somewhere deeper
Keep ratings, notes, recommendations and collections, then follow the credits, equipment, samples, sources and stories behind the record.
Choose Rate Your Music when
Community charts and genre taxonomies drive discovery
A long-running catalogue with reviews, lists, charts and detailed genre classification.
Choose Musicboard when
The public review conversation is the main event
An app-centred way to rate and review music, make lists and see what other listeners are posting.
Choose Last.fm when
Every play needs to be counted automatically
Scrobbling records what you play, making it particularly useful for passive history and listening statistics.
Discogs
Choose Discogs when
Specific editions and ownership matter most
A detailed database and marketplace built around specific releases, ownership and record collecting.
One record. Four ways forward.
The score is where the interesting bit starts.
- 01
Rate the record
Keep the score and the sentence that explains it while the last track is still fresh.
- 02
Open a credit
Follow the producer, musician or engineer behind the detail that caught your ear.
- 03
Trace the sound
Move through connected equipment, samples, sources and stories when the question gets interesting.
- 04
Keep what comes next
Save the related release to your Listen List or collect the whole thread for later.
Questions, answered
Before you give it a spin
Is Raygum a Letterboxd clone for music?
No. “Letterboxd for music” is useful shorthand for the idea of a listening diary, but Raygum is its own product and is not affiliated with Letterboxd. It is built around music releases, listening lists, collections and musical context.
Is Raygum free?
Yes. Creating an account and using Raygum is free.
Does Raygum replace Spotify or Apple Music?
No. Raygum works alongside the service you already use. It helps you remember, rate and explore music, then links you to streaming services when you want to listen.
Can I use it if none of my friends have joined?
Yes. Your ratings, notes, Listen List and collections are useful on their own. Following other listeners is optional.
Does Raygum have a mobile app?
Raygum works on the web and has a native Android app. A public native iPhone app is not available yet.
What can I rate on Raygum?
You can rate music releases from one to five stars. Raygum uses an open MusicBrainz catalogue containing millions of artists and releases.
Your music history deserves a home outside the player