Sell your music directly to fans.
Keep 100%.
Stream free, sell direct, keep every sat. Payments settle instantly to your wallet when a purchase is made.
On a $10 album, Bandcamp pays you ~$8. Here you keep all $10.
How it works
Publish once, own it forever. Your catalog is Nostr events signed by your key. Switch relays and your listeners follow. Sell lossless downloads from your own node, or bring nothing but a Lightning address. Keep every sat.
Press play. That's it. Every track streams free: no account, no signup, no meter running. When you want to own the file, pay one Lightning invoice from any wallet and download it on the spot. More on owning it →
Every purchase is one invoice, instant delivery, and a cryptographic receipt: a catalog machines can pay. Stem licensing and agent APIs are up next.
Keep your Bandcamp
Nobody should have to migrate. Keep your page where your audience is. Add a channel where superfans pay you directly and 100% arrives. And platforms change owners and change terms; your key doesn't.
On a ten dollar digital album, Bandcamp's published fees leave the artist roughly eight dollars: a 15 percent cut plus payment processing that typically runs 4 to 6 percent. On Lightning FM the artist receives the full ten dollars, because payment settles from the buyer's wallet directly to the artist's wallet.
Even bitcoin-native platforms keep 10%: Wavlake's published split is 90/10. [6] Sources checked 2026-08-17. Full comparison, every number cited →
The artist's workstation
One desktop app takes you from a finished track to a live listing: no distributor, no review queue, no monthly fee.
Don't want to run anything? Sell through our hosted gate: we store and serve your files, buyers still pay your wallet directly. We verify the payment and unlock the download, and that's all we touch.
The zero is structural
A purchase flows as sats from the buyer's wallet directly to the artist's wallet. lightning.fm renders the page and never holds the money.
Other platforms promise a fair cut. We removed ourselves from the money entirely: a purchase is a Lightning payment from the buyer's wallet to the artist's. Even when we host the files, the invoice comes from the artist's own wallet. We check that it settled, then unlock the download. No account to freeze, no payout to wait for. This isn't a migration pitch; it's a second channel that can't take a cut. Zero isn't our pricing. It's our architecture.
Own what you buy
Buying here works like buying should: pay once, keep the file, hold a receipt nobody can revoke.
A Lightning wallet is the whole checkout. Scan the invoice, payment confirms in seconds, the download unlocks. No email, no password, no app required.
Your payment preimage is a cryptographic receipt. Keep it and you can re-unlock your download later: proof of purchase that doesn't depend on us remembering you.
In the desktop app, buying is one click and purchases land on disk in a library with receipts attached. Next: pin purchases to a Nostr identity so your collection follows you everywhere.
Pricing
Sovereignty is the free tier. Convenience is the product. Every artist keeps 100% of every sale. There is no percentage anywhere, because buyers pay artists directly and we price only what we host. Full details →
0 sats
Bring nothing but a Lightning address: no node, no fees. Unlimited listings, storage for a handful of lossless albums. Leave anytime, catalog intact.
~$10/mo
Paid in sats. Room for a serious catalog (stem packs welcome), plus priority delivery, multiple formats, and early features. A flat fee for what we host, never a cut of what you sell.
open source
Run your own artist node, host your own files. The desktop app, artist node, and MCP server are open source under MIT at github.com/Lightning-FM. Want help? Concierge setup and an optional support subscription: we price the labor, never the revenue.
Shipped & up next
Built in the open: the dates below are real events, not a launch countdown.
We're onboarding a small group of artists for the beta. The tools are live: publish your catalog, open a storefront, sell downloads, keep everything. Leave an email and we'll set you up.