Sonant
A glass like music controller for your Mac menu bar.
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Sonant - A glass like music controller for your Mac menu bar.

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Tired of Cmd-Tabbing just to skip a track? Sonant is a native, lightweight macOS menu bar app that gives you total control over Apple Music and Spotify. Built with a glass like aesthetic, it features: Now Playing: Track info, album art, and scrubbing at a glance. Live Visualizer: Real-time 4-band audio visualization. Native & Fast: 3.5MB universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel). Privacy First: No accounts and local processing only. 7-day free trial included!

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Hey Product Hunt!  I’m the solo developer behind Sonant. I built this because I was tired of the constant context switching just to skip a track or check an artist's name. I wanted something that felt like it belonged in the macOS menu bar. Why Sonant? Native & Light: It’s a 3.5MB universal binary. No Electron, no bloat. Visualizer: A real-time audio tap visualizer (opt-in) that just looks cool while you work. Privacy: No accounts. No tracking. I don’t even want to know what you’re listening to. I’d love to hear what features you’d want to see next. Special Launch Deal: The app is a one-time purchase (no subscriptions!), but for the PH community, use code SONANTPH50 at checkout for 50% off. There’s also a 7-day free trial on the site if you want to kick the tires first. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

Hi I was trying out the app but it does not load at all. I checked Activity Monitor and it shows as "Not Responding". Any idea why? I'm on macOS 26.5

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 Hi Xin! Thanks so much for reaching out and catching this. I'm really sorry it's hanging on launch for you. It's possible a minor change in the system's permission handling or CoreAudio process taps is causing an unexpected deadlock on first run.

I want to investigate and fix this for you immediately. Could you try a quick sanity check for me? If you hold down the Option (⌥) key while clicking the app to launch it, does it let you bypass the initial setup freeze, or does it stay locked up?

If it stays frozen, I would love to grab a quick spin/diagnostics report from your Activity Monitor. If you could save that text file and email it to me at , it will show me exactly which thread is stuck. Thanks so much for your help debugging this!