How to reorder an Apple Music playlist by energy or BPM

Apple Music lets you sort a playlist by title, artist, album, or time added. What it doesn't let you do is the one thing you actually want: order by energy or BPM, so the playlist builds, peaks, and cools down properly.

The manual way

1. Open the playlist on Mac (drag-and-drop is much easier than mobile).
2. Look up the BPM of each track using a site like SongBPM or GetSongBPM.
3. Drag tracks into a slow-to-fast (or warm-up → peak → cool-down) order.
4. Save the playlist.

For a 60-minute workout playlist that's roughly 15 songs of lookups, sorting, and dragging. Doable. Not fun.

Why pure BPM order isn't enough

A flat ramp from 90 BPM to 180 BPM looks tidy on paper but feels relentless in the ears. Great playlists shape energy — tempo, mood, intensity, vocal weight — not just beats per minute. A slow, heavy 100 BPM track can feel bigger than a fast, light 140 BPM one.

The one-tap way

My Flowlist looks at every track in your Apple Music library, scores it for real BPM and energy, then sequences a playlist along a curve that matches the moment — workout, run, focus, dinner, drive, wind-down — and saves it straight back into Apple Music.

No spreadsheets. No drag-and-drop. Just a playlist that's already in the right order.