Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Free, open-source native macOS client for di.fm
I built a menu bar app for streaming DI.FM internet radio on macOS. Swift/SwiftUI, no Electron. The existing options for DI.FM on desktop are either the web player (yet another browser tab) or unofficial Electron wrappers that idle at 200+ MB of RAM to play an audio stream. This sits in the menu bar at ~35 MB RAM and 0% CPU. The .app is about 1 MB. What it does: browse and search stations, play/pause, volume, see what's playing (artwork, artist, track, time), pick stream quality (320k MP3, 128k AAC, 64k AAC). Media keys work. It remembers your last station. Built with AVPlayer for…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Daft Music▲276Some time ago I moved from Spotify to Apple Music for a few reasons. As someone who builds iOS and macOS apps, I quickly noticed how rough the Apple Music experience felt on Mac. It just wasn’t fun to use. So I decided to challenge myself and see if it was possible to build a full, complex, and performant Apple Music client using SwiftUI. At first, it went surprisingly well. SwiftUI made it easy to build out the main structure and experiment quickly. The UI came together nicely, and it was exciting to see how modern and flexible the framework could be. But the deeper I went, the more cracks…
2025 · daftmusic.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built a native macOS desktop client for Hacker News and I'm open-sourcing it under the MIT license. GitHub: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News Download (signed & notarized DMG, macOS 14.0+): https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News/releases Screenshots: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News#screenshots I spend a lot of time reading HN — I wanted something that felt like a proper Mac app: a sidebar for browsing stories, an integrated reader for articles, and comment threading — all in one window.…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Unofficial SoundCloud App for macOS
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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RadioBar▲115Open source macOS menubar app to listen to streaming radio
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Riverside.fm 2.0▲517Create stunning podcasts and videos in seconds
2021 · riverside.com · its alternatives →
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Brain.fm for iOS▲346Music for the brain to improve focus, meditation & sleep
2016 · brainfm.com · its alternatives →
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Moon FM for Mac▲129An easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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VolumeHub▲195Per-app volume control for macOS with no driver installs
Feb 2026 · volumehub.app · its alternatives →
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An infinity pool of summer sounds in your Mac menu bar
2015 · poolsuite.net · its alternatives →
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I have a large collection of music files gathered over the years, so I was sorely missing a decent offline music player that can serve as a frontend for the collection. I tried several Mac apps over the years, but since streaming music is mainstream now, there aren't good offline music players that meet my needs. So I spent the last 3 months building Petrichor! The idea is to solve my problem and learn Swift UI development along the way, while giving back to the community with this open-source project! Here's a list of features it has, with more getting added in future; - Everything you'd…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blankie▲181Open-source ambient sound mixer now on iOS, CarPlay and Mac
2025 · blankie.rest · its alternatives →
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bop.fm for iOS▲167Listen to music on Spotify, YouTube & SoundCloud in one app
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · radioformac.com · its alternatives →
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Eter▲120Stream Internet Radio on all Apple devices (inc. CarPlay)
2024 · eter.apparentsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Musish - The open source Apple Music web player. Listen now.
2019 · musi.sh · its alternatives →
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Listen to Lo-fi music radio Taiki on the Lofimusic open-source player: an installable Progressive Web app (PWA) written in Go (Golang).
2020 · lofimusic.app · its alternatives →
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