Music & Audio Apps for MAC
21 free Mac apps in Music & Audio, including Spotube, BlackHole, and Lurar. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
21 apps
SpotubeSpotube is a free, open-source music streaming app for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android. Instead of being tied to one service, it gets its music metadata, playlists and audio through plugins, made by its community or by you. It plays music natively, without being an Electron app, collects no telemetry or user data, and shows time-synced lyrics. Spotube is made by Kingkor Roy Tirtho and released under the BSD-4-Clause license.Music & Audio- BlackHoleBlackHole is a free virtual audio driver for Mac that passes sound from one app to another. It appears in macOS as an extra audio device: send any app's output to BlackHole and pick BlackHole as the input in another app, and the audio flows between them with no added latency. That makes it possible to record your Mac's sound, play music or a DAW into a video call, or route audio between music apps. BlackHole is made by Existential Audio, and its source code is released under the GPL-3.0 license.Music & Audio
LurarLurar is a menu bar equalizer for headphone listening. It takes the audio of every app on your Mac through Apple's Core Audio Process Tap, runs it through a 10-band parametric EQ tuned to your headphones, and plays the result on the output device or DAC you choose. Presets come from the AutoEq catalog, which you can browse and search by brand inside the app, and an editor lets you tune every band yourself with a live spectrum analyzer and a clip meter.Music & Audio
Home RecHome Rec is a free, open-source app that records the audio your Mac is playing. It uses Apple's ScreenCaptureKit, so there are no virtual audio drivers, kernel extensions or routing to set up: launch it, click record, and it captures everything your Mac plays, a single app or a microphone. Recordings are saved as lossless WAV by default, or as FLAC or M4A, with a live waveform in the main window and in the menu bar.Music & Audio
LyricGlowLyricGlow is a free, open-source Mac app that shows synchronized lyrics for the song playing in Spotify or Apple Music. Each word lights up as it is sung, karaoke-style, in a floating window that shows the previous, current and next line, and the current line also ticks by in the menu bar next to the clock, so you can follow the song with the window hidden. Every lyric line can show a live translation into any of 43 languages, including right-to-left scripts such as Persian, Arabic and Hebrew.Music & Audio
Tiny PlayerTiny Player is a free, minimalist music player for the Mac with a native macOS interface. It plays MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF and WAV files, and since version 1.7.3 also Ogg and Opus on macOS 15 and newer. You drag your music onto it, build a playlist and find tracks with quick search, while a compact mode keeps the player small on your screen.Music & Audio
FaderFader is a menu bar app for the Mac that puts sound output and volume in one place. Switch between headphones, speakers, displays and AirPlay targets with one click, connect paired Bluetooth headphones from the same list, and give every app that plays sound its own volume slider and mute. You can drag a device onto the output list to play through two devices together, or drag devices onto an app to send just that app to them, while everything else stays on your main output.Music & Audio
ShazamScrobblerShazamScrobbler is for people who use Shazam on a Mac to identify songs playing around them and want to keep a listening history on Last.fm. It sits in the menu bar and watches for new tags. When Shazam tags a song, whether from vinyl, the radio or a film, ShazamScrobbler scrobbles it to your Last.fm account, and it also sends Last.fm a Now Playing request. The menu shows your tagged songs, a switch to turn scrobbling on and off with a count of songs waiting, your account, and an option to launch on startup.Music & Audio
PlayStatusPlayStatus is a native SwiftUI app that lives in the Mac menu bar and controls Apple Music and Spotify, so you can play, skip and search without keeping a full music window open. It has three player layouts: a regular player with artwork, search, lyrics and credits, a compact mini player, and a detached floating window that can stay on top of other windows.Music & Audio
Stargate DAWStargate DAW is a free, open-source digital audio workstation for making music on a Mac. It comes as one package with a pattern-based sequencer, its own instrument and effect plugins and a basic wave editor, so you can start a track without installing anything else. The project says its focus is on unique and innovative features, especially for EDM production.Music & Audio
CogCog is an audio player for the Mac that plays a very wide range of formats. It handles everyday files such as MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Opus, and it also plays tracker modules, video game music, C64 SID tunes and MIDI. Playback is gapless, and you can shuffle by album or track, repeat a track, an album or a whole playlist, and listen to HTTP streams and HLS. The Mac window has a playlist with an Info Inspector, a file tree browser, Spotlight search and a mini window.Music & Audio
foobar2000foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player. It plays all mainstream audio formats out of the box, and additional decoder components add even more. It offers gapless playback, advanced tagging, full ReplayGain support, ripping of audio CDs and transcoding between all supported formats. On a Mac you can customize the layout of the interface and the keyboard shortcuts, and use built-in DSP effects plus Audio Units.Music & Audio
SpotMenuSpotMenu is a free, minimalist menu bar utility for Spotify and Apple Music. It shows the artist and song title in your Mac's menu bar, and a left click opens a panel with album art and hover controls for play, pause and skip. It is built with Swift and SwiftUI, and it can pick whichever player is active or stay with the one you choose. You still need Spotify or Apple Music itself, since SpotMenu controls the player rather than replacing it.Music & Audio
XLDXLD, short for X Lossless Decoder, decodes, converts and plays lossless audio files on a Mac. It reads formats such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, TTA, Apple Lossless and Shorten, and it can split a single file into tracks with a cue sheet. It decodes through libraries, so no intermediate files are created.Music & Audio
MuseScore StudioMuseScore Studio is free, open-source music notation software for macOS, Windows and Linux. You enter notes on what looks like a virtual sheet of paper and the page you see is the page you get. An integrated sequencer and software synthesizer play your score back, and when it is finished you can print it or create a PDF. Notes can be typed in or played in from a MIDI keyboard.Music & Audio
ClementineClementine is a modern music player and library organiser. Search and play your own music library, listen to internet radio from SomaFM, Digitally Imported, Radio-Browser.info and others, and browse music from Jamendo, Magnatune, Subsonic servers and Plex Media Servers. You can also play songs you have uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Seafile, and scrobble what you play to Last.fm.Music & Audio
PetrichorPetrichor is an offline music player for the Mac, made for people who keep their own music collection. Point it at your music folders and it builds an organized library you can browse by artist, album, year or folder. It plays more than 40 audio formats, from MP3 and AAC to lossless FLAC, ALAC, WAV, APE and DSD, and it reads the real encoding of each file, so its Lossless badge is always accurate. You can create, import and export playlists, build smart playlists with detailed rules, manage the queue by drag and drop, and pin almost anything to the sidebar.Music & Audio
KasetKaset is a native macOS app for YouTube Music and YouTube, built with Swift and SwiftUI. It gives you a clean, Apple Music-style window with a sidebar and a player bar, and a switch between Music and YouTube. Sign in with your Google account to play your library, liked songs, playlists and podcasts, explore new releases, charts and moods, and search for songs, albums and artists. On the YouTube side you can browse recommendations, subscriptions, Shorts, Watch Later and history, and watch videos with captions, quality choice and picture in picture.Music & Audio
eqMaceqMac is a system-wide audio equalizer for macOS. It processes all the sound your Mac plays, so you can shape it for every app at once: use the Basic Equalizer for bass, mids and treble, or the Advanced Equalizer with 10 fixed bands. Reference presets for more than 4,600 headphones help you get a balanced sound, and Super Presets switch automatically when the output device or main audio app changes. eqMac also adds volume and balance control for HDMI, DisplayPort and other devices that macOS cannot adjust, and can boost volume beyond 100%.Music & Audio
Background MusicBackground Music is a free audio utility for macOS that adds what the Mac is missing. It gives every app its own volume slider and mute button, so you can turn a noisy browser tab down without touching your music, and even boost quiet apps above their normal maximum. It also pauses your music player automatically when another app starts playing sound, such as a video or a call, and resumes the music when the other sound stops. Auto-pause works with music players such as Spotify, VLC and the Music app.Music & Audio
AudacityAudacity is a free, open-source audio editor and recorder for Mac, Windows and Linux. It records from a microphone or audio interface, edits several tracks at once, cleans up noise and exports to all the common audio formats, which makes it a favourite for podcasts, voice-overs, interviews, music and digitising old recordings. Audacity is made by the Audacity Team and released under the GPLv3 license, with no ads or paid features.Music & Audio