Auralyn · for Mac
Auralyn plays the songs, movies and shows you already have. Music comes from your Mac, your own media servers and your cloud storage, and video from your Mac and mounted shares. Mixes come only from your library, and your files are never uploaded.
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Each server type was tested against one version with test music, and each cloud service and Plex with one account of our own. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Navidrome and Gonic supply music only. Screens on this page use synthetic test music and test films.
Auralyn
Auralyn is a desktop player for the music and video you own. Your files, your folders, your own servers and your cloud, in one calm library, with mixes built only from what you already have.
No streaming service. Your media files are never uploaded, and mixes and radio work without a network request or an AI model.
Inside Auralyn
Tags, covers, search, albums and artists, built from the folders you add, your own media servers such as Plex, Jellyfin or Navidrome, and your cloud storage.
Up to 100,000 songs and videos. The library rescans at launch or when you press Refresh.
The background follows the album art, and a live line traces loudness as the song plays. A reduced-motion setting stops the movement.
The graph shows loudness, not a frequency spectrum.
Home mixes, song and artist radio and Autoplay similar songs, shaped by your own listening history.
Built on your Mac, without a network request or an AI model. History is on by default; you can pause or reset it.
Switch to Video for Watch now, Movies and TV Shows. Pick up where you stopped, and the next episode plays on its own.
Movies and episodes are recognised from their file names. Starting a video pauses your music.
What Auralyn does
Everything here works in the signed release build on our Apple-silicon test Mac. Each item lists its current limits.
Up to 100,000 songs and videos, with tags, covers, search, albums and artists. Duplicate cleanup keeps one entry per song and never deletes files.
The library rescans at launch or when you press Refresh; it does not watch folders. WMA and AVI files are not indexed yet.
Ten bands, from 31 Hz to 16 kHz.
The EQ affects Auralyn only.
Switch between Music and Video. Watch now, Movies and TV Shows, resume where you stopped, the next episode, full-screen controls, a choice of audio tracks, and subtitles: text files and tracks, plus Blu-ray picture subtitles (PGS).
Movies and episodes are recognised from their file names. Videos with DTS or TrueHD sound play without sound for now.
Sharpens and upscales video as it plays. On macOS 26 or later you can choose Apple's AI upscaler instead.
Off by default. Apple's upscaler takes video up to 720p; tested on one Mac.
Plus volume leveling.
These apply only to local audio files up to 64 MiB. Leveling sets one fixed gain per track; it is not ReplayGain.
Home mixes, song and artist radio, Autoplay similar songs, “Shape this session”, and more-like-this or less-like-this feedback. They are worked out on your Mac from your own collection and listening history.
They work without a network request or an AI model. Some smart playlists need listening history first.
Sign in to Plex, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box or pCloud on the service's own page, and play from there. Download songs for offline play where the source allows it.
Each was tested with one account of our own. Auralyn only reads your files.
Optional and experimental. Ask in your own words, such as “play something calm”, and it picks from your library. It runs on your Mac and sends nothing.
A one-time download of about 5 GB when you set it up; 16 GB of memory recommended. An answer takes about 6 seconds, and it sometimes asks back instead of playing.
Experimental. Listens to how your songs sound, on your Mac, to keep a session close or explore further.
Off until you turn it on, in Now Playing. Still being tuned on large libraries.
Fix tags and artwork inside the app without rewriting your files.
Edits live in Auralyn only. Only byte-identical copies are merged automatically.
Time-synced lyrics from your own LRC files, or found online when a song has none.
The online lookup (LRCLIB) is on by default; turn it off in Settings → Privacy.
Control Center, Now Playing and the Play/Pause key.
Checked so far on one Mac running macOS 27.
Now Playing
The background takes its colours from the album art. A graph traces how loud the song is right now. Turn on reduced motion and the movement stops.
The graph shows loudness, not a frequency spectrum.
Pricing
Prices in US dollars; any sales tax is added at checkout.
Launch offerUntil 10 November: Lifetime is US$29.99 instead of US$49, and Monthly is US$4.99 a month instead of US$7.99, kept for as long as you stay subscribed.
Privacy
Listening history and recommendations are kept on your Mac. Some optional features go online, such as lyrics, artist info and movie and TV info.
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