Fresh Brews: MochaMusic, CremaCard, and TypeClack Join the Menu

Three new drinks landed on the menu this week, and none of them spent any time on the Coming Soon board first. MochaMusic gives your owned music a proper library on the Affogato shelf, CremaCard brings spaced repetition to Americano, and TypeClack makes your laptop keyboard sound like something it isn't, over in Cold Brew. The cafe sits at 121 apps now.

MochaMusic: the library your music folder deserves

MochaMusic is a player for the songs you already own. Point it at the folders where your music lives and it reads the tags and cover art out of every track, then builds a real library: albums, artists, play counts, and a Date Added that actually means something. Rename a file or move a folder and that date survives. That sounds small until you sort by it years later and everything still sits in the right place.

It watches those folders too. Drop in a new album and the library picks it up without rescanning everything, and relaunching is instant because it only looks at what changed.

The track list sorts by any column, the album grid shows a generated plaque when artwork is missing, and playlists keep their tracks even when files move on disk. Tag editing writes straight back into the files, so a fix you make in MochaMusic shows up in every other app you own. It plays MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and Ogg, reads embedded artwork, and never uploads a thing. Your files stay exactly where they are.

CremaCard: flashcards that show you what you forget

CremaCard runs on spaced repetition, which means it decides what you should review today from how well you actually knew each card yesterday. Grade a card and the buttons tell you the future before you press them: 10 minutes, 4 days, 2.3 months. Cards you keep getting right stop eating your morning, and the ones you keep missing stay close.

Import an Anki .apkg and your decks, subdecks, tags and suspended cards come across with their intervals and ease values intact. Cloze deletions become real cards. When an import meets something it can't carry, like an image or an unusual layout, it tells you and counts it, so one odd card never costs you the other nine thousand.

It ships with 1,093 cards ready to study: core English vocabulary and phrasal verbs, Spanish sentences with translations, every world capital, the whole periodic table. Each deck shows where it came from and under which licence. The stats screen goes back half a year: study calendar, streaks, how often you actually remember, what's coming up next month, and how far each deck has travelled from new to mature. Export anything as CSV or TSV with the scheduling included.

No account, no sync server. Every card stays on your computer.

TypeClack: your keyboard, now with opinions

TypeClack gives a laptop keyboard the sound of a mechanical one, and it commits to the bit. The sound starts about 8 milliseconds after the key goes down, fast typing rings over itself the way a real board does, and the app measures its own timing and shows you the number.

Three voices to wear. Clack is bright and clicky, like a blue switch on a hollow board. Thock lands deep and dampened, like a foam-filled board with thick caps. Feather is quiet, for a late night. They're built in code rather than recorded, so they're public domain and yours to keep. The spacebar, enter, backspace and the modifiers each get their own voice, and every key carries a small pitch of its own, so a hundred keystrokes never turn into one sample on a loop.

If you already own Mechvibes soundpacks, TypeClack reads that format in both layouts and shows you what each pack says about its author and licence. Name the apps you take calls in and it goes quiet the moment one of them comes to the front. A global shortcut mutes everything without finding a window first. There's even a typing drill with speed and accuracy stats, if you want to feel productive about the noise.

Still steeping

One new face on the waitlist: CamCascara, coming to Cold Brew. It tests any webcam and runs live filters over the preview. It's the first name back on the board in days, after yesterday's Fresh Brews noted how quiet the shelf had gone.

The menu keeps growing

That's 121 apps across eight categories, all included in one subscription. Solo Cup is $9.99 a month, Family Roast covers five devices for $15.99, and annual billing cuts both roughly in half. Seven-day free trial, no credit card required.

See the whole menu at getapps.cafe.