The free music-tech platform orders tracks by beats per minute, manages the rise and fall of energy, and stores finished playlists on users’ preferred streaming services.
We are giving listeners control over the arc of the playlist – and giving songs another way to be discovered. Tempo Tunes is focused on what comes next: control.”— Dion Isselhardt, Creator of Tempo TunesASHLAND, OR, UNITED STATES, August 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Built on his own by Dion Isselhardt, a veteran product designer who worked at Amazon, Samsung and Bose, the free music-tech platform sequences songs by tempo — then delivers completed playlists to Apple Music, TIDAL, YouTube Music or Spotify.
Streaming services gave users access to nearly every recorded song ever made, but offered little control over why one track comes after another. Tempo Tunes flips that: the newly released independent music platform allows listeners to steer how a playlist progresses.
A listener picks a starting and ending tempo, chooses the shape of the journey, adds genres, artists, an era or reference songs, and decides whether the mix should lean toward familiar names or deeper cuts. Its Tempo Shapes feature can hold a steady pace, climb from warm-up to finish, peak at the midpoint and drop back, or start at full energy and wind down. The result is a playlist constructed to follow a deliberate curve.
That ordering of the chosen songs also opens another route to music discovery. A catalog track, older recording or artist outside a listener’s normal listening habits can appear because the song fits at a precise spot in the playlist sequence — not simply because it matches the last thing streamed.
A product designer’s solution to a music problem.
Tempo Tunes was created and built on its own by Dion Isselhardt, whose 25-year product design background includes Amazon’s Kindle, Samsung’s ID8 innovation lab, Bose Professional, Intuit, EA Sports, Romeo Power and Battle Motors.
The idea started while he was mountain biking and snowboarding. He could find endless workout and mood-based playlists, but could not tell a platform when the music should settle, push or come back down.
"I did not need another playlist called 'Workout,'" said Isselhardt. "I wanted to tell the music what the experience was going to be: start here, build with me, peak here and bring me home. Most recommendations begin with what you listened to yesterday. Tempo Tunes begins with what you want the music to do next."
The app’s visual style draws from Isselhardt’s childhood Sony Sports Walkman and worn-out cassettes. Playlists appear as labeled tapes with handwritten titles, making each mix feel physical. The product itself is modern: Tempo Tunes is free, contains no advertising and says it does not sell user data or use tracking.
The hard part is not finding music. It is trusting the tempo data.
Because public BPM sources are often incomplete or inconsistent, Tempo Tunes built and maintains its own music database. Its playlist engine draws from almost 2 million tempo-verified songs, while its BPM search reaches 7.5 million measured tracks. Users can search for a song, identify music playing nearby, tap out a beat or upload a track to set a starting tempo.
Listeners can combine more than 90 genres, choose an era, favor particular artists, seed a mix with up to five songs and move a control from obscure recordings to popular names. Completed playlists can be saved to Apple Music, TIDAL or YouTube Music, with Spotify available through a limited beta.
"The streaming platforms already hold the music," Isselhardt added. "We are giving listeners control over the arc of the playlist – and giving songs another way to be discovered. The music business spent years solving access. Tempo Tunes is focused on what comes next: control."
Tempo Tunes is available now for iPhone on the Apple App Store and Android on Google Play.
Jennifer Gross
Evolutionary Media Group
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