This page exists so you know exactly what you are getting before you download anything. Pitchkit is a real Mac app you drag to Applications, but it is not sold through the Mac App Store and it is not notarised by Apple, which changes a few things on first launch. All of that is spelled out below.
One $39 purchase covers everything. Your licence key arrives right after checkout and unlocks the app in place, with nothing to reinstall.
A zip containing a Pitchkit folder. Inside it: the application, a setup guide, and a launcher called START_PITCHKIT.command. There is no installer and nothing is written outside that folder except the Python packages it installs on first run.
START_PITCHKIT.command. The first launch takes about a minute while it installs a few Python packages, then Pitchkit opens in your browser.START_PITCHKIT.command, choose Open, then Open again on the warning. One time only. This happens with any Mac software not distributed through the App Store.Pitchkit runs a small local server on your Mac and uses your browser as its window. Nothing is served over the internet and nothing is uploaded, the address is on your own machine and is not reachable from anywhere else. This is the same pattern a lot of local audio and data tools use, and it is what lets the app stay small, work identically on Apple Silicon and Intel, and be inspectable if you care to look.
The honest downside is that it does not feel like a native Mac app, because it is not one. If a native .app in your Dock is what you were expecting, this is the point to know that before buying.
On the Analyze page you can turn on Whisper to transcribe your lyrics locally, which noticeably improves matching on lyric-driven and theme-driven briefs. The Base model is the right default. Larger models are more accurate but can take many hours on a Mac without a dedicated GPU, start one overnight if you want it. Everything runs on your machine; no audio is sent anywhere.
Out of the box, Pitchkit recognises roughly 200 artists for reference matching. Adding your own Anthropic or Gemini API key in Setup extends this to effectively any artist, by translating a name into concrete musical characteristics before matching. The only data that ever leaves your Mac in this mode is the artist name, never your audio, lyrics or catalog.
Pitchkit checks for a new version on launch and tells you when one is available. Updates are free and included in the one-time price.
Email musicpitchkit@gmail.com. If matching handled a brief badly, include the brief text, it genuinely helps.
Partly. It is a real .app bundle that you drag to Applications and open like anything else, with its own icon in the Dock, and quitting it shuts the whole thing down normally. What is not native is the interface itself: Pitchkit runs a small server on your Mac and draws its window in your browser rather than in native Cocoa.
It is also not distributed through the Mac App Store and is not notarised by Apple, so the first launch needs a right-click and Open to clear Gatekeeper. We say all of this plainly because expectations matter more than marketing. Everything runs on your machine, nothing is uploaded, and it works the same on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Yes. One $39 purchase includes everything: brief matching, artist reference lookups, Whisper lyric transcription and pitch folder creation, on an unlimited catalog. There is no watermark, no account and no subscription, and updates are included.
Python 3 needs to be present, yes. On recent versions of macOS the system prompts to install the developer tools that include it the first time it is needed, so for most people this is a single click. If it is not present, macOS says so and you can install Python from python.org in a couple of minutes, then double-click the launcher again.
After that, Pitchkit installs the handful of packages it needs on its own during first launch. You do not use Terminal, edit anything, or run commands.
Because Pitchkit is not distributed through the Mac App Store. macOS shows this warning for essentially all independently distributed Mac software that has not gone through Apple's notarisation process. Right-click the launcher, choose Open, then Open again on the warning, and macOS remembers the decision permanently.
It is a one-time step and it is not a sign that anything is wrong, but it is also a reasonable thing to be cautious about in general, you should only clear that warning for software you actually meant to download.
Roughly an hour for a thousand songs on a modern Mac, running in the background while you do other things. It resumes where it left off if you close the window or restart, so it does not need to be done in one sitting.
Optional lyric transcription is much slower and is a separate pass you switch on deliberately. The Base Whisper model is the practical choice; larger models can run many hours on a Mac without a dedicated GPU, which is why the guidance is to start one overnight if you want the extra accuracy.
It reads them and never writes to them. Indexing analyses the audio and stores the results in its own small database inside the Pitchkit folder; your files are not tagged, renamed, converted or moved.
The one time Pitchkit writes anything is when you create a pitch folder, and then it copies the selected files into a new folder rather than moving the originals. Your catalog is left exactly as it was.
No. Pitchkit is macOS 11 or later only, and there is no Windows, Linux, iOS or web version, or a timeline for one. If you are on Windows, the hosted catalog platforms such as Disco and Songspace are web-based and work fine, and a consistently maintained spreadsheet remains the practical fallback for the matching problem.
We would rather turn away a sale than take money for something that will not run on your machine.
Pitchkit is the whole Mac app: brief matching, artist references, lyric transcription and pitch folders all included. $39, one time. No account and no subscription.
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