Pod

The iPod Classic, on your Mac.

Click wheel, haptic feedback, 40,000+ radio stations, Spotify integration. Free, native, tiny.

Download for macOS · Website · macOS 12.4+

Features

• Click wheel with smoothed gesture tracking and haptic feedback
• Local library — point it at any folder of MP3s; reads ID3 metadata + album art
• Radio — 40,000+ stations, searchable, favoritable
• Spotify — play your saved albums and playlists, controlled by the wheel (uses librespot under the hood)
• Now-playing in the menu bar with media-key support
• Auto-updates via Sparkle

Build

Standard Xcode project. Open Pod.xcodeproj and run.

For Spotify support, the embedded Rust bridge needs to be built:

cd pod-spotify-bridge
cargo build --release

The Swift side picks up the binary automatically when running from Xcode (looks for it at pod-spotify-bridge/target/release/).

Architecture

• SwiftUI + AppKit hybrid (Pod/) — MVVM, protocol-based wheel input dispatch
• Rust bridge (pod-spotify-bridge/) — librespot-backed Spotify session, JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout
• GlobalState singleton for app-wide state + UserDefaults persistence
• See CLAUDE.md for a more thorough tour

Releasing

Pipeline lives in scripts/release.sh (Developer ID signing, notarization, Sparkle EdDSA, universal Rust bridge, dmg + zip). See .claude/skills/release/SKILL.md for the full procedure.

License

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — free for personal, hobby, research, and educational use. Commercial use is not permitted.

Support

Bugs and questions: support@desktopipod.com