Songs you can only hear here
Artists release exclusive songs in the app, free to hear. Fans come for the music, and the cause is already part of it.
An overview
Hope in every note.
Help in every song.
An iPhone app where artists release songs you can only hear here, and part of what fans give helps people pay for cancer treatment.
Cancer takes more than health.
It takes money, sleep, certainty and company. Music reaches people where medicine can't: in the car to chemo, in the waiting room, at two in the morning. Music Against Cancer turns that moment into help.
The app
Built, working and in testing.
A short walkthrough of the real app, recorded on iPhone and narrated. Turn your sound on.
Jump to a feature
New in the latest build
Music for the part of the week you're in.
Moments are six hand-picked sets on Home: Treatment day, Scan day, Can't sleep, Hard day, Lift and Celebrate. Each one mixes real songs with quiet pieces, in an order that starts where the person is and leads gently from there.
- One tap from Home. No searching, no building a playlist on a hard day.
- Real songs first. Every set draws on the artists in the app, with our own pieces between them.
- Made for real days. Treatment, scan results, a sleepless night, a day that needs a lift, and a day worth marking.
Fourteen quiet pieces of our own.
Made for the waiting room, the infusion chair and the middle of the night: Settle, Steady, Morning, Waiting Room, Home, Rise, Dawn Chorus, Ring the Bell, Lantern, Held, Tide, Infusion, Lullaby and Rest. Written to be gentle company, and nothing more than that.
- Two mixes of every piece. One for headphones, one for speakers, and the app switches by itself when the output changes.
- Slow and unhurried. Paced to a gentle rhythm, with no lyrics to follow and nothing to decide.
- Still in testing. Early listeners are telling us which pieces to keep.
How it works
Music people want, giving that happens by itself.
Giving without a hard sell
A $10 monthly membership, or back an artist directly. 30% of artist support goes toward patients' treatment through a partner foundation, recorded in a ledger from the money that actually arrives.
Music for real days
Six Moments on Home, from Treatment day to Celebrate, and fourteen quiet pieces of our own for the waiting room and the middle of the night.
Made to be shared
Dedicate a song to someone in treatment. Their name and your note travel with the link, and it opens right in the app.
Informed, never prescriptive
A research hub, clinical-trial search and an AI guide help people arrive at their care team informed. The app never recommends a therapy, and that independence is what lets patients, artists and doctors trust it.
A story fans can follow
A cancer survivor and working songwriter is the app's ambassador. Every artist after him brings a new audience and a new reason to listen.
Concerts for the cause
Benefit shows near you, with one tap to add them to your calendar and a reminder.
Where it stands
Real, working, and ready to grow.
Native iPhone appWorking build, in testing
Its own homemusicagainstcancer.com, with links that open the app
Accounts and givingSign in with Apple; payments wired and tested, switching on at launch
Apple Health and remindersFeeling check-ins, mindful minutes, show reminders
AccessibleVoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion
TestedOver 230 automated tests on every change
Get in touch
Help it grow.
We're talking with people who want to help launch Music Against Cancer to everyone, commission the next wave of artists and open a patient assistance fund.
Public launchArtist programPatient assistance
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