Our story
Locker brings your music catalogue, songwriting tools and collaboration into one platform, for songwriters, producers, artists and the teams around them, including managers, publishers and A&R. We help you stay organised and save time, so you can focus on your music.
We started Locker because we couldn't understand why managing music was still so difficult.
Making music has never been more collaborative. That's a brilliant thing. But every new record brings more people, more files and more versions. Do that for a few years and you don't just have a handful of songs to manage, you have an entire catalogue spread across hard drives, cloud storage, inboxes and messaging apps.
Nobody's doing anything wrong.
It's simply what happens when creative people work together.
Joe & Sam, London
Locker started with Joe Kearns, a songwriter and producer who's spent years writing and producing records for artists including Ellie Goulding, Zara Larsson, Lukas Graham, Lily Allen, NATE, IVE and Little Mix. Across countless sessions, the same challenge kept coming up. The music wasn't the difficult part. Everything around it was.
To turn the idea into something bigger, Joe teamed up with Sam Ward, and the two founded Locker together.
Joe brings years of experience as a songwriter and producer. Sam brings nearly two decades in software. We're lifelong friends who wanted to make managing music easier.
So we built Locker.
Not to replace the tools people already love. Your DAW is still your DAW. Your plugins are still your plugins. We just wanted to build the place where everything around the music finally made sense.
One home for demos, lyrics, versions, collaborators and feedback. A place where your catalogue stays connected, searchable and easy to manage, whether you've written ten songs or ten thousand.
We build Locker with the people using it every day. Tell us what works, what gets in the way and what would save you time.
We're building the product we always wished we'd had.
What we believe
The principles behind everything we build.
Your work stays yours
You own your music and your data, full stop. We never sell it, and we never use it to train AI or generate music.
AI for the chores, not the craft
Kii handles the admin so you don't have to. It doesn't write your songs or touch your sound. Locker never makes the music. You do.
Security by default
Your unreleased music is valuable. We treat protecting it as a core feature, not an afterthought.