Reed
SoundCloud, reduced to a personal music launcher that lives in your menu bar.
Your likes, playlists, feed, and the artists you follow — one click away, playing instantly. No browser tab, no dock icon.
$brew install --cask kobylinski/tap/reed
Playback
- Mini-player with a seekable waveform — click to scrub
- Prev · play · next, plus shuffle & repeat
- Recently played — jump back a track or three
- DJ mode — equal-power crossfade between songs
- Radio — an endless station from any track
- Like or unlike anything inline
Sources
- Likes — your whole library, hundreds deep
- Playlists — type to search, scroll to pick
- Feed — your stream of new posts
- Following — play any artist you follow
Native
- Now Playing + hardware media keys
- Streams SoundCloud HLS AAC via AVPlayer
- Reopens right where you left off
- Lucide icons that adapt to light & dark
- Sign in with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE
to know
You'll need SoundCloud Artist Pro
SoundCloud reopened API access in June 2026, but getting your own credentials needs a paid Artist Pro plan — a free profile can't register an app, so Pro is what lets Reed connect to your account. Check or activate it at soundcloud.com/pro.
Missing something? Add it yourself.
Reed is one Swift package — no Xcode project, a few thousand readable lines, built and bundled with a single script. The whole thing is small enough to hold in your head.
Want another source, a keyboard shortcut, a different crossfade curve, an icon that's more you? Clone it, change it, run ./scripts/bundle.sh, and it's yours. Pull requests are welcome — forks that wander off in their own direction, even more so.