Orphiq
Orphiq is artist management software built around Apollo, an AI music strategist. It plans release campaigns, generates social content ideas and coordinates artists, managers, labels and agencies in one shared workspace. It handles music careers, not music creation.
What is Orphiq?
Orphiq is artist management software for the music industry, published by Orphiq, Inc. of Miami, Florida. Its centre of gravity is Apollo, an AI music strategist that learns an artist's sound, audience, brand and goals during onboarding, then keeps that context across sessions so neither the artist nor their team has to explain themselves twice. The product works backward from a release date. It builds a single rollout timeline covering every task from announcement to release day, assigns deadlines, and plans social posts and promotional content in advance from ideas drawn from the artist's own sound. Around that sit smart analytics you query in plain language, career guidance tied to your current stage, revenue insights, and tour planning covering routing, budgets, show advancing and logistics. Managers, labels and agencies get their own entry point: shared workspaces with access controls, so collaborators work without anyone sharing a password, and multi-artist roster management from one place. Orphiq is deliberate about its limits. It does not distribute music to streaming services, and it does not write songs or produce audio. It runs in the browser only: there is no mobile app and no public API.
What it does
- Build one rollout timeline for a single, EP or album, working backward from the release date
- Ask Apollo what to do next and get an answer based on your own sound, audience and stage
- Plan social posts and promotional content in advance from ideas drawn from your own music
- Coordinate managers, labels and collaborators in a shared workspace with proper access controls
- Oversee a whole roster of artists and their campaigns from a single account
- Plan a tour, from routing and budget to show advancing checklists and logistics
- Query your own data in plain language instead of reading dashboards
When to use Orphiq / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Orphiq is the right fit.
When to use Orphiq
- Independent artists running their own release campaigns without a manager or a label behind them
- Artist managers coordinating announcements, deadlines and content across a roster of several acts
- Independent and major labels that need multi-artist release schedules visible in one place
- Music marketing agencies running rollout campaigns on behalf of client artists
- Signed artists whose team needs shared access to the plan without passing a password around
When not to use Orphiq
- Anyone looking to get music onto Spotify or Apple Music: Orphiq does not distribute, and points to DistroKid, TuneCore or CD Baby for that
- Producers wanting AI to write songs or generate audio: the site names Suno, Udio and BandLab as the tools for that job, and is explicit that Orphiq is not one
- Labels needing royalty accounting or financial reporting, which the platform openly says it does not replace
- Developers wanting to build on top of the tool: there is no public API and no documentation page anywhere in the site
- Anyone under 18, and anyone outside music, since every workflow is shaped around a release date
How to use Orphiq
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account on the sign-up page; no credit card is required to start
- Complete the onboarding by describing your sound, vision, brand, identity, context and goals
- Optionally let Apollo listen to your music, so its suggestions take the actual sound into account
- Set a release date, and let the rollout timeline and its tasks generate backward from it
- Adjust deadlines and assign work across the announcement, promotion and release-day phases
- Ask Apollo for content ideas for social posts, or for a view on what to prioritise next
- Invite your team into the workspace, read-only on the free tier or with edit rights on paid plans
- If you work on the industry side, create a workspace for each artist you represent
- Connect a social account such as TikTok where the integration is available
- Come back through the release cycle as Apollo surfaces the next move and upcoming deadlines
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuinely specialised: timelines and tasks come ready for music releases, with no template to build first
- Apollo's persistent memory means the artist's context is not re-explained at every session
- A single Pro or Star subscription covers the artist and their whole team, seats included
- Read-only collaborators are free, even on the free plan, so a team can be looped in at no cost
- A permanent free plan on both the artist and industry sides, plus a 30-day trial on paid plans
- An explicit, repeated commitment that artist content is not used to train AI models
- Public, legible pricing: eight plans in USD, with a separate ladder for artists and for industry
Cons
- The Contributions clause grants a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide commercial licence over posted content, image, name and voice included, which contradicts the intellectual property pitch
- All purchases are non-refundable under the terms
- No public API: the complete 858-URL sitemap contains no API documentation page at all
- No mobile app is published, despite the privacy notice referring to one
- No data processing agreement, no sub-processor list and no Article 27 EU representative
- No hosting country or region is published anywhere on the site
- The legal documents are Termly templates, with passages about forums, message boards and a Facebook app that have nothing to do with the product
Pricing & Plans
Orphiq offers a permanent free plan on both sides of its pricing: Free for artists and Access Pass for industry professionals, neither requiring a credit card. The lowest paid entry point is USD 37 per month, charged monthly, corresponding to the DIY plan for artists and the Industry Pass for professionals. The terms of service announce a 30-day free trial for new subscribers. Billing is monthly only, renews automatically, and no annual rate is displayed. All purchases are non-refundable, although a subscription can be cancelled at any time, taking effect at the end of the paid term.
- limited Apollo conversations
- release and project organisation
- free view-only collaborators
- advice based on your profile
- unlimited Apollo conversations
- full release planning tools
- content ideas on demand
- everything in DIY
- plus you and 2 team members with full AI access and edit rights
- priority support
- everything in Pro
- plus you and 12 team members with full AI access
- VIP support
- view-only access to any workspace you are invited to
- limited Apollo conversations
- create workspaces for the artists you represent
- full edit access to 1 workspace
- unlimited Apollo conversations
- basic support
- full edit access to up to 5 workspaces
- priority support
- full edit access to unlimited workspaces
- VIP support
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Orphiq handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy notice addresses the GDPR and the UK GDPR directly and sets out the legal bases relied on, which is more than many US companies of this size publish. It grants access and copy, rectification, erasure and withdrawal of consent, and routes requests through a dedicated data subject access request page, through legal@orphiq.com or through a contact-legal page, with an appeal route if a request is refused. Separate sections cover residents of US states, Canada, Switzerland and South Africa. What is missing is just as concrete: no Article 27 EU representative, no data processing agreement, no published sub-processor list and no stated hosting jurisdiction. The commitment is real but partial, and a European buyer would have to request the paperwork directly.
Who owns the data?
Orphiq, Inc., at 31 NE 17th St, Miami, Florida, is the controller and states it decides how personal information is processed; privacy questions go to legal@orphiq.com. The company is incorporated in Delaware. Ownership of user content is where the terms turn sharp: any Submission sent as feedback or an idea is assigned outright to the company, and any Contribution posted through the service carries an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to use, resell, broadcast and exploit it commercially, including the user's image, name and voice. That language is considerably broader than the marketing promise to protect artists' intellectual property.
Reuse rights
Users keep practical use of their own workspace, and Orphiq states that user content is not used to train AI models: Apollo draws on music industry knowledge and on what the artist chooses to declare. Sharing your music with Apollo is optional and serves only to sharpen its recommendations, and Apollo reaches no streaming platform or external account unless the artist connects it. Against that, the terms let the company reuse anything posted as a Contribution without asking again, commercially, in any medium, indefinitely. Information received through Google APIs is handled under Google's Limited Use requirements, and Google Analytics runs on the marketing site with an opt-out link provided.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Orphiq publishes no hosting jurisdiction. Neither the privacy notice nor the terms of service names a country, a region, a cloud provider or a data centre, and no SOC 2 or ISO certification appears anywhere in the pages reviewed. The privacy notice claims adequate organisational and technical safeguards without describing them, and adds the usual caveat that no transmission over the internet is entirely secure. No data processing agreement and no sub-processor list were found. A dedicated security page exists on the site but fell outside the scope of this short review. One technical caution: the domain's resolved IP address sits on an anycast content delivery node in Amsterdam, which describes the edge of the network rather than where the application and its data actually live, and should not be read as a hosting location. For any buyer with European data residency requirements, this remains an open question to put to the company in writing.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Orphiq.
- The Contributions clause is the single most important thing to read: a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable commercial licence over anything posted, expressly including your music, image, name and voice. For an artist, that is the opposite of the intellectual property protection the marketing promises
- The legal documents are generic Termly templates describing forums, message boards and a Facebook application that do not exist in the product, so they should not be read as a description of what you are buying
- Leaning on an AI strategist for every career decision can quietly erode an artist's own judgement about their audience and their timing, which is the one skill the job actually rewards
- Advice generated from what is working for artists at your stage tends toward the average: following it closely risks producing exactly the interchangeable rollout the tool promises to avoid
- All purchases are non-refundable, and subscriptions renew automatically, so an unused account keeps billing until it is actively cancelled
- No hosting jurisdiction, no data processing agreement and no sub-processor list are published, which is a problem for anyone with contractual data residency obligations
- The 5-star rating published in the site's structured data rests on the three testimonials shown on the homepage, not on any verified review system
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Orphiq is a browser application with nothing to install and no card required to open an account. The setup work is descriptive rather than technical: you tell Apollo about your sound, your brand and your goals, optionally share your music, then set a release date and let the timeline build itself. Inviting collaborators is a matter of sharing the workspace, read-only even on the free tier. There is no API to wire up and no integration work beyond connecting a social account. Anyone comfortable with an ordinary project management tool will be running the same day.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Orphiq
Social
Resources
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Orphiq.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly does Orphiq do, and what does it refuse to do?
Does Orphiq train its AI on my music or my content?
What does it cost, and is there a free plan?
Can managers, labels and agencies use it, or is it artists only?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
Is there anything in the terms I should read before signing up?
Should you pick Orphiq?
Orphiq occupies a narrow, well-chosen space: the business of a music career rather than its creation. For an independent artist juggling a release alone, or a manager tracking six of them, a timeline that generates itself from a release date and an assistant that remembers the roster is a real gain over group chats and notes apps. Pricing is public and honest about what it buys, and the commitment not to train models on artist content is stated plainly. The reservations are legal rather than functional. The terms are a Termly template, and one clause grants a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide commercial licence over anything posted, music, image, name and voice included, which sits awkwardly against a pitch built on protecting artists' intellectual property. Add non-refundable purchases, no data processing agreement and no published hosting jurisdiction. Read the terms before committing a catalogue.
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