Features
Capture and import, find by sound, organize and rediscover, hand off to your DAW — all on your device. Every feature below ships in Riffle today and runs entirely on your machine. Nothing is uploaded.
Riffle meets your recordings where they already live.
Point Riffle at folders where your recordings already live — synced voice memos, a bounce folder, a Dropbox — and it ingests what's there and picks up new or changed files automatically. Re-scanning skips unchanged files; a corrupt file is logged, not fatal.
Drag files or whole folders in (or pick them from a dialog) to import as a one-time pass — good for an archive you want analyzed once without monitoring it going forward.
Record a new idea straight into Riffle from your chosen input. It saves locally and enters analysis immediately, so the new idea joins your searchable Library right away.
The reason Riffle exists — search your recordings by how they sound.
Hum it or play it on your instrument. Riffle matches the shape of your melody — not its key or tempo — and returns a short ranked list of best candidates with confidence and instant preview. When nothing matches strongly, it says so honestly and offers to search by description.
Type the character of what you want in plain language — like “dreamy guitar loop” — and get clips ranked by how they actually sound. A sounds-like search: timbre and vibe, not exact melody.
From any clip, ask for more like this and Riffle returns sonically similar fragments — a quick way to pull together takes that share a feel.
Browse, group, and resurface — automatically.
Every clip gets a key, tempo, duration, loudness, melody, sound profile, an auto-title and tags — turning New Recording 412 into “bright acoustic riff · D major · verse idea.” Override any title or tag; your edits stick and are never overwritten on re-analysis.
See your whole Library as a scannable grid with waveforms and inline playback. Filter by key, tempo, tag, date, folder, or duration; sort however you like; edit titles and tags inline.
Riffle groups recordings that are variations of one musical idea, so you can line up every take across years and pick the best one. Confirm or split a cluster — your corrections persist.
Riffle quietly resurfaces clips you haven't touched in a long while — “three ideas you haven't opened in over a year.” Conservative by default, and you can change the frequency or turn it off.
The payoff — get the take into the tool where you actually finish songs.
Grab a result and drop it onto your DAW's timeline or browser. What lands is the actual audio file, not a link or placeholder — so any DAW that accepts file drops just works.
Prefer to save it out? Export any clip — or just the part you trimmed — to a folder as a WAV file.
The privacy promise is built into how Riffle works, not bolted on.
No cloud, no sync, no in-app account. Riffle only uses the network to check your license and to download its analysis models the first time. After that it runs fully offline, and nothing about your recordings is ever uploaded.
Riffle gates premium features behind your subscription, never your own work. Stop paying and you keep your Library, your organization, and your files. Your data is never held hostage.
Riffle shows you where its data is kept, lets you move it, and lets you delete a clip's derived data — and optionally its source file — whenever you want.
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