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. Nothing in your Dock while you listen. No clutter.

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Marquee scroll.

Song titles slide smoothly on hover with soft fade masks. Static when idle, animated when you need it.

Spring physics.

Buttons light up individually with spring physics. Responsive, tactile, and satisfying every time.

Seekable progress.

The progress bar expands on hover and reveals a draggable thumb. Scrub to any point in the track.

Live visualizer.

Four bars driven by a CoreAudio process tap that reads your actual audio output in real time.

Sonant pill in the macOS menu bar of a MacBook Pro, sitting against a warm-toned wallpaper

Three steps. That's the whole setup.

01
Install Sonant

Drag it to Applications. It lives in your menu bar and stays out of your Dock while you listen.
02
Play something

Open Apple Music or Spotify and hit play. Sonant auto-detects which player is active.
03
Control from the bar

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

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Smart Detection

Detects whether Apple Music or Spotify is playing in real time and pulls in artwork, title, and artist automatically. No setup.

Global Shortcuts

⌘⇧Space to play/pause, ⌘⇧→ to skip. Works from any app, anywhere.

Sleep Timer

15 to 90 minutes. Music pauses on its own when the timer is up. Made for falling asleep to a record.

Audio Output Picker

Hop between speakers, AirPods, or any other output straight from the right-click menu.

Listening Stats

Daily and weekly time, streaks, and your top artists. Kept locally. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Copy Song Link

One click copies the Apple Music or Spotify URL for the current track.

The Widget. Drag Sonant out of the menu bar.

A floating Liquid Glass panel that follows you across spaces and full-screen apps. Album art, title, artist, progress, transport, and a live lyric line. Every element toggleable, the whole thing draggable anywhere on your screen.

Live lyrics·Hover-aware transport·Drag-to-scrub·Six independent toggles·Always-on-top optional·Remembers its place

Power Mode. Sonant adapts to your battery.

Three preset profiles, and Sonant follows macOS's own Low Power Mode automatically. Customise the refresh rates per profile from the settings window.

Low Power

Maximum battery life

Visualizer hidden. Drift refresh stretched. The pill stays informative and stops working hard.

Visualizer0 fps

Drift refresh30s

Normal

Balanced and smooth

Visualizer at 15 fps, drift refresh every 10 seconds. The default: what most people want, most of the time.

Visualizer15 fps

Drift refresh10s

Power User

Smoothest visuals

Visualizer at 30 fps, drift refresh every 5 seconds. For when you're plugged in and want every frame.

Visualizer30 fps

Drift refresh5s

Lightweight by design. Native by nature.

Built entirely in Swift and SwiftUI. No Electron, no web view, no telemetry. Runs as a true menu-bar-only app.

macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later·Apple Music & Spotify·Apple Silicon·~8 MB

Questions? Answers.

Does Sonant work with both Apple Music and Spotify?

Yes. It auto-detects which player is active and pulls in the current track, artwork, and playback state. No configuration needed.

Can I choose what the pill shows?

Yes. In Settings you can show or hide the artwork, visualizer, buttons and title, write your own title format with {title}, {artist} and {album}, and let the pill grow to fit the title. There's also an optional floating widget with the current lyric line.

How do the trial and the license work?

Try it free for 7 days, no card needed. One purchase covers up to 5 Macs you own and every 1.x update. Refunds within 14 days, no questions asked.

Can I control playback with keyboard shortcuts?

Yes. ⌘⇧Space toggles play/pause, ⌘⇧→ skips forward, ⌘⇧← goes back. These work globally from any app.

What about the sleep timer?

Right-click the pill and choose a timer: 15, 30, 45, 60, or 90 minutes. When time's up, music pauses automatically.

Does it collect any data?

No. Sonant has no analytics and no telemetry. The only network requests it makes are for things you can see: album artwork, lyrics, update checks, and your Spotify queue if you connect it. None of them carry anything about you.

Ready when you are.