Lossless music in your own Google Drive, playing the moment you tap — no servers in between, no re-encoding. And with Lossic Pro on your Mac: insert a CD, and minutes later it plays on your iPhone. One unbroken pipeline, from disc to pocket.
Tap and it's playing — about 0.2 seconds for a queued album track. Measured on real phones and real networks, not taken from marketing copy.
ALAC and FLAC stream without re-encoding, from CD quality to high-resolution releases. A format badge tells you exactly what you're hearing.
Your iPhone talks to Google directly, read-only. Lossic runs no servers — we couldn't look at your library if we wanted to.
Every track you play stays cached on the phone. Play it again in a tunnel or on a plane — zero network required.
Covers, composers, disc numbers — read from your files' own tags. Classical albums finally make sense: browse by the composer, not just the performer.
CD rips, Bandcamp and Qobuz purchases, live recordings. The library you actually own — not the one a store rents you.
Swipe right from Now Playing and Lossic introduces the performer and the piece — written by an AI from your file's own tags (and, with Gemini, the album cover). Tap a suggested question, or open Ask More and keep the conversation going.
Bring your own Gemini, OpenCode Zen or OpenRouter API key; it lives in the iOS Keychain and the app talks to the provider directly. Answers can come in English, Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Korean — your choice.
No NAS, no port forwarding, no server to babysit.
Insert a disc into a CD drive on your Mac. Lossic rips it to ALAC or FLAC, finds the album art and tags, writes everything in, and uploads it to the Lossic folder in your own Google Drive — automatically. Minutes later it's playing losslessly on your iPhone, with AI ready to tell its story.
Already have lossless files? Import them right from your iPhone — pick an album's files from Google Drive or any Files location, and they land in your own Lossic space, playable immediately.
Albums appear on your cover wall automatically. Played tracks stay on the phone — the music keeps going when the network doesn't.
Most cloud players route your files through their own machines. Lossic's entire backend is: none. Your files travel one hop, between Google and your devices, over a connection you can revoke any time — and Lossic can only ever see the files it created itself.
Your device talks to Google Drive directly — there is no Lossic server, so nothing ever passes through us. Music you rip or import is uploaded straight from your device to your own Drive.
No — and it couldn't even if it wanted to. Lossic uses Google's most limited permission, drive.file: it can only see files that Lossic itself created or imported. Everything outside that is invisible to the app — Google enforces this at the API level, it is not a promise we make. One practical consequence: FLAC/ALAC files you already keep in Drive must be brought in through the Import feature. Copying them into the Lossic folder in Drive's web UI won't work — visibility follows who created the file, not which folder it sits in.
As an import source — yes, today: the import picker shows iCloud Drive alongside Google Drive, and anything you pick is uploaded into your Lossic space. As a storage backend — not yet, and there is an honest technical reason: iCloud offers third-party apps no partial-read streaming interface, so playing a cloud-only file would mean downloading it whole before it makes a sound. Google Drive's HTTP interface is what makes Lossic's instant start (~0.2s), smart caching and cellular data budgets possible. An iCloud backend may come later as a convenience option, clearly labelled as sync-then-play.
Not for playback — and that's Apple, not us: iOS has no DSD decoder, and the iPhone's hardware can't play the 1-bit stream natively. Apps that claim DSD support convert it to PCM on the fly, which sits badly with a product built on bit-honesty. If you have a DSD collection, convert it once to 24-bit ALAC or FLAC with a desktop tool and import that — a well-done DSD64 → 24/176.4 conversion is transparent, and we'd rather you do it once, knowingly, than have us do it silently on every play. Hi-res PCM (24/96, 24/192) plays natively and shows its true badge.
ALAC and FLAC as first-class citizens, plus AAC and MP3. High-resolution files play with their format shown on the face of the player.
Never. Lossic streams the original bytes of your file with HTTP range requests and does not transcode them on the way.
A queued album track typically starts in about 0.2 seconds; a cold tap on a new file usually starts under a second on Wi-Fi. These are measured numbers from real devices, and staying honest about them is the whole product.
Because you already pay for the storage. Lossic adds the part that was missing: a player that treats your Drive like a local music library.
Point it at the exact release on Discogs. Search for your CD on discogs.com, open its release page, and paste the address into the “Paste a Discogs release URL or ID” field in the rip window. Either the full URL, e.g. https://www.discogs.com/release/12727624-…, or just the number 12727624 works — Lossic fetches that release's cover and tags. Automatic lookup is deliberately strict (a blank cover is better than the wrong one, which would be burned into every track), so this is the intended way to resolve an obscure or regional pressing.
Swipe right from Now Playing and Lossic asks an AI to introduce the performer and the piece, using the track's embedded tags — and, with Gemini, the album cover — as context. Three suggested follow-up questions are one tap away, or open Ask More for a conversation about what's playing.
You bring your own API key — Gemini, OpenCode Zen or OpenRouter. It's stored in the iOS Keychain and the app calls the provider directly; there is still no Lossic server in the loop. With Gemini you can opt in to Google Search grounding for fresher answers. No key? The player works exactly the same — the story layer is simply off.
Yes. The introductions are generated text and may contain mistakes — treat them as a knowledgeable friend's take, not a reference work. The playback numbers, by contrast, are measured.
Lossic is on the App Store now, for iPhone and Mac — one download record, one subscription that unlocks both. Every new install starts with a 30-day full-feature trial: no card, no paywall until the trial ends. After that it's US$2.99 a month or US$29.99 a year.