A clean playlist app for Apple Music

What you get

A new playlist in your Apple Music library, holding the same songs in the same order, with three possible outcomes per track:

Without MeEminem

Explicit, so it becomes Without Me (Clean).

Mr. BrightsideThe Killers

Already clean, so it carries over unchanged.

rockstarPost Malone, 21 Savage

No clean release exists, so it is left out.

Replacing, not just filtering

Apple Music's own content restriction hides explicit songs: turn it on and the track disappears from the playlist, leaving a gap. RadioWash does something different. A clean version is a separate release with its own entry in the catalog — usually the radio edit — and RadioWash finds that release and puts it in the copy, so the song is still there.

Matching the right recording is the hard part. RadioWash matches on the recording identifier first, then falls back to a catalog search that checks title, artist, and length before accepting a candidate. How it works walks through that pipeline step by step.

When there is no clean version

Not every explicit song has a clean counterpart — plenty were never released as a radio edit. Those tracks are left out of the copy rather than swapped for a cover, a remix, or a different song. That is why a clean copy is sometimes shorter than the playlist it came from, and the job page shows exactly which tracks were cleaned, which were already clean, and which were omitted.

If you would rather do it by hand, or want to see what the manual route involves before signing in, the clean-playlist guide covers both methods honestly.

What it costs

Cleaning playlists is free, with no track limit and no credit card. Auto-Sync — which watches a source playlist and adds the clean versions of new songs to the copy — is $5 per month and is the only paid part of RadioWash.

Questions

Does it work on playlists I did not create?

RadioWash reads the playlists in your own Apple Music library, so anything saved there can be cleaned — including playlists you added from someone else. The clean copy is always created as a new playlist in your library.

How long does a large playlist take?

It runs as a background job, so you can close the page and come back. Longer playlists take longer: RadioWash looks up exact recording matches in batches, searches the Apple Music catalog for each track that still needs one, and waits when Apple asks it to slow down. Progress updates as it goes, and the job page shows how every track was matched.

What happens to songs with no clean version?

They are left out of the copy. Some songs were never released as a radio edit, and RadioWash will not substitute a cover, a remix, or a different recording in their place — so a clean copy is sometimes shorter than its source.

Do I have to pay?

Cleaning playlists is free, with no track limit and no credit card. Auto-Sync, which keeps a clean copy in step with its source as the source changes, is $5 per month and is the only paid part of RadioWash.