Alternatives
Alternatives to Roadie
Roadie: Stop macOS from choosing the wrong microphone or speakers. Set your priorities once and Roadie handles every reconnect, wake-up, and device change. These are 6 more in Audio. 6 listed: 3 free and 3 paid. Of those, 3 with a free trial.
6 apps
- About Lyrimuse
Lyrimuse, opens the developer's site in a new tab
Word-synced desktop and menu-bar lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou and YouTube Music / Spotify Web in the browser — with translation, romanization and Last.fm scrobbling. Free and open source (GPL-3.0).
Free - About NowWave
NowWave, opens the developer's site in a new tab A floating now-playing widget for TIDAL, Spotify and Apple Music, with favorites, sharing and themes.
The track playing on TIDAL, Spotify or Apple Music in your menu bar, with a player one click away.
Free - About Peekabop
Peekabop, opens the developer's site in a new tab Every song. Every word. Right under your camera. Karaoke lyrics for your Mac.
Karaoke lyrics for your Mac: whatever you play in Spotify, Apple Music or the browser lights up word by word in the notch, a floating pill, subtitles or full screen. No account, no analytics, microphone never used.
€9.99 7-day trial - About Aloud
Aloud, opens the developer's site in a new tab Select text, a PDF or a screenshot and hear it read out loud. All on your Mac. $19 once.
Aloud is a native macOS app that reads selected text, PDFs, screenshots and web articles aloud with natural on-device voices (Apple and Kokoro), from a notch player, menu bar, Services menu or a hotkey. Optional ElevenLabs/Cartesia with your own key. No account, no subscription: $19 one-time with a 3-day free trial.
$19 3-day trial - About NotchMuse
NotchMuse, opens the developer's site in a new tab Show synced lyrics on your Mac desktop or in the menu bar. Works with Spotify, Apple Music and more. Free to download. No account required.
Free, open-source Mac app that shows synced lyrics from Spotify, Apple Music, NetEase, QQ Music & Soda Music in the menu bar, beside the notch or above the Dock.
Free - About Press record on anything your Mac plays.
Press record on anything your Mac plays., opens the developer's site in a new tab plain — a Git-native CMS: the repo is the database, static files are the API, AI is the admin. Vanilla, one dependency, under 2,500 lines.
Tapelark records music apps, browser tabs, internet radio and podcasts into a library of your own, split into tracks, named and tagged.
$29 14-day trial
About Roadie
Stop macOS from choosing the wrong microphone or speakers. Set your priorities once and Roadie handles every reconnect, wake-up, and device change.