AI app Petey uses ChatGPT to make Apple Music playlists for you

Petey, the cell app that launched ChatGPT to Apple Watch customers, recently brought its characteristic set to the iPhone, permitting customers to entry its AI assistant extra shortly and even swap out Siri with Petey utilizing Apple’s Shortcuts. Now, Petey has a brand new trick up its sleeve. In its newest replace, out at this time, the app may be linked to Apple Music, so it could possibly make playlists for you or enable you to add particular person songs to your Apple Music library.

The brand new characteristic arrives alongside a number of different updates, together with the flexibility to entry the newest AI mannequin, GPT-4, by means of a paid “Petey Premium” subscription.

Along with being a intelligent instrument, Petey’s new Apple Music characteristic demonstrates the extent to which Apple and others may leverage AI to serve up suggestions inside their very own apps in the event that they selected. It’s unclear if that would be the case with iOS 17, nonetheless, as reports have stated will probably be a extra minor software program replace this time round.

To get Petey’s music suggestions, you merely sort your request for a playlist into the app’s interface. For instance, a request for 90s grunge returns anticipated outcomes like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and others.

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The app then strains up brief previews of every really useful tune beneath the returned playlist permitting you to scroll by means of and pattern every one. In case you just like the tune, you possibly can faucet on the three-dot “extra” menu subsequent to the tune to both hearken to the total model in Apple Music or save the monitor to your Library.

You can even faucet to “be taught extra” concerning the tune which opens NowPlaying, Petey developer Hidde van der Ploeg’s liner notes iOS app that provides numerous details and particulars about songs, information and artists.

The product designer-turned-indie app maker launched the well-received NowPlaying app in 2021, however its present 2.0 launch arrived in November and now serves as a helpful companion to Petey, with this new characteristic’s arrival.

Past saving particular person songs to your Apple Music Library, Petey additionally affords the choice to create a playlist. With a faucet of the “Create Playlist” button, customers may give the AI-built playlist a reputation, then open it up in Apple Music’s app and start listening.

In fact, these options require customers to have an Apple Music subscription because the service doesn’t have a free tier. Customers additionally must have both a Fundamental or Premium subscription to make use of Petey on iOS or they will use their very own OpenAI API key.

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Different updates which can be rolling out at this time alongside the Apple Music integrations and help for GPT-4 embrace different cost choices for the Petey Fundamental subscription, different app icons and the flexibility to ship messages to your cellphone from Apple Watch even should you don’t have a Fundamental subscription or your personal API key.

Petey is a free obtain from the App Retailer however requires a subscription to make use of its options on iPhone. The app is gaining a little bit of a following, because it’s now seen 24.7K whole installs since its Apple Watch-only launch on March 8, the developer says. The iPhone model has been out solely since April 6.