Deep Cuts is a music trivia app for iPhone. Pick your crates, play a daily ten, name the tune from a real preview, and read the story behind every answer.
iPhone · 18 crates · Free
Coming soon to the App Store
Five ways to play, stories to read, and the day in music history.
Ten questions a day from your crates: trivia, two song clips, a matchup and a cover to finish. Never more than one hard one.
Hear a preview of the real recording from Apple Music and pick the song.
Famous covers. Name the artist who recorded the song first, from Blind Willie McTell on up.
Two records, one older. Pick it.
Only the toughest questions in a crate, for people who read the liner notes.
Every answer comes with the story, so a miss still teaches you something.
Long reads on the records and the shows, from Fillmore East in 1971 to Summer Jam at Watkins Glen.
What happened in music on today's date, from Wikipedia.
Acts from your crates who still tour, and music venues near you.
No. Your crates, scores and streak stay on your iPhone. There are no ads and no tracking. Your location is used only when you search for venues near you, and it is never stored.
Privacy Policy →How it's built.
Deep Cuts started with my dad, who grew up on '60s and '70s rock and knows the records cold. He wanted trivia that goes past what any radio listener knows, with the story behind each answer, and not a single wrong one.
So the app is built in crates, the way a record store is. Pick Southern Rock and you get Duane Allman and the Fillmore, not a quiz on who sang "Hey Jude". Pick Pop or the '80s and it stays quick and fun over coffee.
Classic Rock · British Invasion · Southern Rock · Heavy Metal · Prog Rock · Motown & Soul · Folk & Singer-Songwriters · Psychedelic Rock · Yacht Rock · Punk & New Wave · The '80s · Grunge & Alternative · Pop Classics · Modern Pop · Country · Blues · Disco & Funk · Hip-Hop
| Platform | iPhone, iOS 17+ |
| Language | Swift 6 with strict concurrency |
| Framework | SwiftUI · AVFoundation · MapKit |
| Content | 1,200+ questions, 350+ songs, 100+ stories |
| Data | No account; progress stored on device |
| Offline | Trivia and stories work with no network |
Accuracy first. Every question, song year and story is checked against sources before it ships, and anything uncertain is cut. A wrong answer key is the fastest way to lose a fan.
Real records. Real album art and previews of the actual recordings, so Name That Tune sounds like the record you know.
Readable. Built for larger text sizes, because a lot of the people who know these records best read with them turned up.
Always growing. New questions arrive every week, and every answer has a Report a problem button. Fixes reach the app without waiting for an update.
Yes. Deep Cuts is a music trivia app for iPhone built around crates such as Classic Rock, British Invasion, Southern Rock, Prog Rock and Psychedelic Rock. The questions go past what any radio listener knows, and every answer comes with the fact behind it.
Eighteen crates: Classic Rock, British Invasion, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Motown & Soul, Folk & Singer-Songwriters, Psychedelic Rock, Yacht Rock, Punk & New Wave, The '80s, Grunge & Alternative, Pop Classics, Modern Pop, Country, Blues, Disco & Funk and Hip-Hop. You pick the ones you want.
Deep Cuts plays a preview of a real recording from Apple Music and you pick the song from four choices. A round is six clips from your crates.
Yes. Deep Cuts is free, with no ads and no account.
The trivia, matchups, cover questions and stories work offline. Song previews, On This Day and the venue search need a connection.
Deep Cuts is in testing now and coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.
Free on iPhone. No account, no ads.
Coming soon to the App Store