Sonant

Glass-Style Music Controller for Mac Menu Bar

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  • $4.99
  • 7-day free trial

About Sonant

Your music, always in reach. A glass-style controller that lives in your macOS menu bar. Album art, playback, a live visualizer, always one glance away. No Dock icon. No extra window. No clutter.

Features

  • 🪩 Glass-style UI: Translucent dark pill with hand-painted highlights and a gradient border that feels native to macOS
  • 📊 Live visualizer: Four bars driven by a CoreAudio process tap that reads your actual audio output in real time
  • ⏯️ Instant controls: Play, pause, skip, and scrub directly from the pill. No window switching, no broken focus
  • 🎵 Smart detection: Auto-detects whether Apple Music or Spotify is playing and pulls in artwork, title, and artist
  • ⌨️ Global shortcuts, ⌘⇧Space to play/pause, ⌘⇧→ to skip. Works from any app, anywhere
  • 😴 Sleep timer: Pause music after 15, 30, 45, 60, or 90 minutes. Perfect for falling asleep to a record
  • 🔋 Power Mode: Three preset profiles that adapt to your battery, plus auto-follow for macOS Low Power Mode
  • 📈 Listening stats: Daily and weekly time, current streak, and your top five most-played artists. All kept locally
  • 🎧 Audio output picker: Hop between speakers, AirPods, or any output straight from the right-click menu
  • 🔗 Copy song link: One click copies the Apple Music or Spotify URL for the current track
  • 🪶 Lightweight & native: Built entirely in Swift and SwiftUI. ~3.5 MB, no Electron, no telemetry
  • 💰 One-time purchase, $4.99 with a 7-day free trial. No subscription, no ads

How Sonant works

Install Sonant

Drag it to Applications. It lives in your menu bar, no Dock icon, no windows.

Play something

Open Apple Music or Spotify and hit play. Sonant auto-detects which player is active.

Control from the bar

Play, pause, skip, seek, all from the glass pill. Or use global shortcuts from any app.

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