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Music & Audio2025

Tempo

A streaming app that feels like the music sounds

Category
Music & Audio
Focus
Product · Build
Year
2025

Overview

A music player rebuilt around atmosphere and momentum — album art drives the mood, and playback controls are never more than one gesture away.

Most streaming apps treat music like a spreadsheet of rows. Tempo is a player with feel: nocturnal, glowing, alive — an interface that matches what's coming out of the speakers.

Design direction

The decisions that give Tempo its own personality — and keep it from looking like anything else on this page.

  1. 1

    The album art sets the atmosphere — ambient glows and accent colors derive from the current record.

  2. 2

    A permanent, keyboard-first player bar, so control never requires navigation.

  3. 3

    A tracklist with playing-state clarity, waveform scrubbing, and one-tap queueing.

  4. 4

    Transitions tuned to feel rhythmic — the interface moves like it has tempo.

What's inside

Art-derived ambient theming

Always-on player with waveform scrubbing

Keyboard-first playback controls

Nocturnal visual identity

Built with

ReactTypeScriptWeb Audio APITailwindFramer Motion

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