Apple Music Creator Tools
Tools built specifically for Apple Music — separate from the general image editor.
Apple's rules split into two kinds of checks
Apple's artwork guidelines mix rules a script can verify directly from a file with rules that require actually looking at what's drawn in the image — the Artwork Policy Checker keeps those separate rather than pretending one pass covers both.
Checked automatically
- Square aspect ratio
- Minimum 3000×3000 resolution
- No transparency / alpha channel
Needs a manual look
- No text, lyrics, or titles overlaid
- No watermark or social handle
- No price or store badges
The Motion Artwork Maker is the one tool here that outputs video rather than a still image — it strips audio, center-crops to square, and trims a source clip down to a short loop, matching what Apple's Animated Artwork spec expects before a distributor will accept it.