Oyenza Studio 0.2.6

The island stays on screen. In 0.2.4 and 0.2.5, over a maximized window the island stepped aside: it turned invisible and showed only while you pointed at the top edge, so it seemed to vanish when the pointer left. Now it stays where you can see it, in every theme, and the Over maximized windows option is gone. To keep the top edge clear, pick Idle look › Hidden until hover.

Oyenza Studio tells you when a new version is out. About two minutes after it starts, and then every 12 hours, it reads one small signed file from studio.oyenza.com. When a newer version is out, the island says Update available with the version and a Hide button; click it for the Update sheet with what's new. Until you update, the right-click menu starts with Update to Oyenza Studio …. It never looks while the computer is locked, the screen is off or battery saver is on. To turn it off, switch off Tell me about new versions in Settings. A copy from the Microsoft Store gets its updates from the Store instead.

Install from the island (Windows). Once a new version is out, Oyenza Studio downloads its Setup first (about 2.5 MB), keeps it only if it matches the signed file, and then the Update sheet offers Install now or Install on next start. Install now closes the island, installs the new version and opens it again; your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in stay. On a Mac, the sheet downloads the new DMG.

A proper Mac installer. The Mac download opens as an installer window: drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. The version shows in the window's title.

This is the first version that can tell you about the next one. Copies on 0.2.5 or older can't, so update this once by hand.

Everything new in 0.2.5 is here too: your steps from your phone on the Health page, and on the Mac, Oyenza sign-in, headphone pop-ups, stepping aside for full-screen apps and Power. See the 0.2.5 notes.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.5

Your steps, on your computer. In the Oyenza app on your phone, turn on Show on Oyenza Studio under your steps in Health (Sehat), and the island's Health page shows your daily steps, distance and active energy for the last 7 days, with a notice when you pass your goal. It asks every 15 minutes and when you open the Health page, and keeps the numbers in memory only. Sleep, heart rate and weight stay on your phone. You need to be signed in to Oyenza on the computer, and the newest Oyenza app on your phone. This works on Windows and on the Mac.

More of Windows on the Mac:

• Sign in with Oyenza works on the Mac now: approve the code at oyenza.app/connect, and the Oyenza tab shows your last 7 days and the bills due. Money in and out arrives as a notice, with the sum held back until you click Show, and each bill gets a reminder the day before. The menu bar has an Oyenza menu too. The Mac's key stays in a file only your Mac account can read.
• Full-screen apps: while a video, a game or a slideshow is full screen, the island now steps out of its way and comes back after, as on Windows. This is the new default on the Mac. To keep it on top, pick Stay on top under In full-screen apps in the menu bar or in Settings.
• Headphone pop-ups: connecting or disconnecting Bluetooth headphones or a speaker shows the same pop-up as on Windows, without the battery level (macOS shows AirPods' own when they connect).
• Power: on a Mac without a battery (a Mac mini, Studio, iMac or Mac Pro with Apple silicon), System › Power shows what the whole Mac draws, from its own sensor. MacBooks keep their Battery view.
• Settings says Start at login on the Mac, not "Start with Windows".

The Mac download grows by about 230 KB, to 3.9 MB.

The version in the menu. Right-click the island or the tray icon: the menu now shows About Oyenza Studio 0.2.5 and its date, just above Quit, and it opens these notes. The tray icon's tooltip names the version too.

Everything new in 0.2.4 is here too: over a maximized browser, the island steps aside for your tabs. See the 0.2.4 notes.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.4

Your browser's tabs stay visible. Over a maximized browser, the island now steps aside instead of sitting on its tabs. The same goes for any window whose top edge is at the top of the screen, such as one snapped to half the screen. The clock or the song waits out of the way, and only an invisible strip stays along the middle of the top edge, so the tabs show and take clicks. Point at the top edge to open the island. The volume, battery and Bluetooth pop-ups, notices and a new song's title still show for a few seconds. To keep the island over those windows, right-click it › Over maximized windows › Stay, or pick Stay next to Maximized windows in Settings. This is Windows only: on a Mac the menu bar already keeps windows below the island.

Everything new in 0.2.3 is here too: the reading in Latin letters under each sung line on the closed island, and Prayer times on the Mac. See the 0.2.3 notes.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.3

Sing along from the closed island. While a Japanese, Korean or Chinese song plays, the closed island now shows each line's reading in Latin letters right under it: romaji, the Korean syllables or pinyin, in every theme, on Windows and Mac. Until now the reading showed only on the Music page. For these songs the island is two rows tall for the whole song, so it doesn't grow and shrink line by line. Songs that need no reading keep the one-row island, and switching off Lyrics pronunciation in Settings brings it back too.

Prayer times on the Mac. The Mac's Add-ons tab now has Prayer times, as on Windows: Location Services finds your kab/kota, or you type it, and the island counts down the ten minutes before each prayer and plays the adzan when it's time. Around a MacBook's notch the countdown sits beside the camera, the moon on the left and the minutes on the right. The Mac app grows by about 70 KB.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.2

On a Mac, Oyenza Studio opens again. 0.2.0 and 0.2.1 quit the moment they started on some Macs, with nothing on screen, because reading the graphics card's memory failed on Macs whose graphics don't report it. That reading is now skipped when it isn't there, and the island and the menu bar icon come up as they should. If you installed 0.2.0 or 0.2.1 and nothing happened, install this one over it.

Everything new in 0.2.1 is here too: the Script reader add-on, Show over games staying over the game, Power on the System page, lyrics on the closed island in every theme, Japanese readings switching themselves on and the Prayer page's countdown. See the 0.2.1 notes.

Nothing changes on Windows.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.1

Script reader, a new add-on. A teleprompter right under your webcam. Open the + at the end of the tabs and switch on Script reader: it's built in, so nothing downloads, and a Script tab appears. Paste a script, or drop a .txt file on the island, and press Read. The line to say stays bright under the camera with the next ones dim below, moving a line at a time at the pace you set (60 to 300 words a minute). Space pauses, the arrow keys step a line or change the pace, and on Windows Alt+Shift+S pauses or resumes from any app. On Windows the island stays out of screen shares and recordings while the page shows; on a Mac it shows in full-screen shares. Switched off, the island is as it was: no tab and no shortcut.

Show over games stays. The FPS readout now stays on the island for as long as a game is in front, like an overlay. Alt+Shift+F hides it until the next game, and pressing it again brings it back. Staying adds about a frame of delay to the game; if you'd rather have none, pick Peeks (System › Games › Readout, or right-click › In full-screen apps › Only for a few seconds), the way 0.1.20 did it.

Power on the System page (Windows desktops). A new Power module shows what the whole PC draws, split into the CPU, the graphics card and the rest. Corsair HXi and RMi and MSI Ai power supplies connected over USB report the real numbers, with wall power, efficiency and temperature. With other power supplies it's an estimate: the CPU's and an NVIDIA card's own readings plus about 40 W for the rest. It reads only while the System page is open.

Lyrics on the closed island in every theme. While a song has synced lyrics, the music pill in Classic, Oyen and Glass now sings the line, as Pill does: the album art on the left, the line in the middle, the equalizer (or Oyen) on the right. It takes the width of the widest line so far, so it settles in the first verse. Songs without synced lyrics keep the compact pill.

Japanese readings switch themselves on. On a Mac, and on PCs without Windows' Japanese reading data (most PCs outside Japan), the first Japanese song whose kanji go unread now downloads the 3.8 MB dictionary by itself, and the song shows romaji a moment later. Switch it off in Add-ons and it stays off.

A countdown on the Prayer page. With the Prayer times add-on, the Prayer tab leads with the next prayer and a live countdown to it, and lays today's five prayers on one arc, with the sun or the moon where the day stands. It ticks only while the tab is open.

On a Mac, a third of the download. Japanese readings are an add-on on the Mac too, in its new Add-ons tab, so the Mac app drops from 10.9 MB to 3.5 MB.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in.

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyenza Studio 0.2.0

Oyen Poni is now Oyenza Studio. Same app with a new name. Updating keeps your settings, data, add-ons and Oyenza sign-in. The Start menu, Installed apps, Task Manager and the tray menu say Oyenza Studio, and the installer removes the old Oyen Poni shortcut. The project now lives at github.com/lucacadalora/oyenza-studio and studio.oyenza.com; the old links forward there.

On a Mac, the app is Oyenza Studio. Quit Oyen Poni first (menu bar icon › Quit Oyen Poni), because only one copy runs at a time. When Oyenza Studio first opens, it moves the old Oyen Poni app to the Trash, where you can put it back if you need to.

Pill, a fourth theme (new in 0.1.21). Right-click the island, then Theme › Pill, or pick it in Settings. The island floats a little below the top of the screen as a black capsule with layouts of its own: the time and battery at rest, a Status bar idle look (the volume, the date and time, the battery), the line being sung while music plays, with bars and a glow in the album's colour, and a card with rounded corners when it opens. On a MacBook with a notch, the resting island stays beside the camera and the rest floats just below it. Classic stays the default.

Install: download Oyenza-Studio-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe. Links to Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe keep working: every release carries that file too.

On a Mac: open Oyenza-Studio-Mac.dmg and drag Oyenza Studio into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading from Oyen Poni 0.1.x: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings and data (%APPDATA%\Poni; the folders keep their old names).

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyen Poni 0.1.21

Pill, a fourth theme. Right-click the island, then Theme › Pill, or pick it under Theme in Settings. The island floats a little below the top of the screen as a black capsule, and everything it shows has a layout of its own:

• At rest: the time on the left and, on a laptop, the battery on the right, with a bolt while it's plugged in. A desktop shows the time alone.
• Status bar, a new idle look in Pill (right-click › Idle look › Status bar): the volume, the date and time, and the battery.
• Music: the line being sung, or the title and artist between lines, with bars in the album's colour and a glow of it along the bottom.
• The focus timer, the minutes before a prayer, the readout over games, the volume, charging and Bluetooth pop-ups and notices are capsules too.
• Open, it's a card with every corner rounded. The Music page puts the art, the player's name, the song, the time left and big controls side by side, with the lyrics beside them.

Pill moves its own way: it stretches into a wider capsule before it drops open and flattens back when it closes. A pointer thrown at the top edge still opens it, and clicks beside it reach the window under it. A soft shadow and a fine rim keep it apart from the wallpaper.

On a Mac Pill works too. On a MacBook with a notch, the resting island and the timer stay beside the camera, and the line being sung, pop-ups, notices and the open island float just below the notch.

Classic stays the default. Oyen and Glass are unchanged.

Install: download Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe.

On a Mac: open Oyen-Poni-Mac.dmg and drag Oyen Poni into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading from 0.1.x: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings and data (%APPDATA%\Poni).

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyen Poni 0.1.20

Show over games no longer slows games down. In 0.1.18 the readout stayed over the game, and any window over a borderless game makes Windows combine the two before they reach the screen, which costs about a frame of delay. Now the island hides over the game, so its frames go straight to the screen again, and the readout shows for a few seconds: when a game comes to the front, when its frame rate drops sharply, and whenever you press Alt+Shift+F (press it again to hide it sooner). Alt+Shift+F belongs to Oyen Poni only while a game is in front. Glass no longer copies the screen while a full-screen app is in front; it draws smoked glass there.

A smaller download. The Windows installer is about 2.4 MB, down from 6.3 MB. The Japanese reading dictionary moved out of the app into an add-on, and the parts that run only for moments, such as phone pairing and QR codes, are now built for size. The Mac download is unchanged.

Japanese readings, only if you need them. Kanji are read with Windows' own reading analyzer. On a PC without Windows' Japanese data, kana lines still read right away, and the Music page offers Japanese readings under the lyrics: a 3.8 MB add-on that reads every kanji line. One click downloads it. It's in the Add-ons tab too, and switching it off there deletes the file. PCs where Windows reads Japanese never see the offer. On a Mac nothing changes: the dictionary stays built in.

Apple Music's progress bar and back button work. Apple Music for Windows tells Windows' media controls that seeking and going back are off, so the island's bar did nothing and Back was greyed out. With Apple Music, the island now moves Apple Music's own progress slider and presses its own back button: drag the bar, click a lyric line to jump to it, or press Back.

Lyrics and lists glide. On Windows, moving text used to land on whole pixels, so a line easing into place stood still, then jumped a pixel. Lyrics and the Tasks, Clipboard and Oyenza lists now glide between pixels and look exactly as before once they stop. On Windows and the Mac, the line being sung grows smoothly instead of in small steps, and each lyric scroll starts gently.

The System page rests while you're away. Its last minute of history (a light reading once a second) stops while your PC is locked, the screen is off or battery saver is on, and starts a fresh minute when you're back.

Install: download Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe.

On a Mac: open Oyen-Poni-Mac.dmg and drag Oyen Poni into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading from 0.1.x: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings and data (%APPDATA%\Poni).

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

Oyen Poni 0.1.19

This release is for the Mac.

Oyen goes black around the notch. A MacBook's camera notch is black hardware that no app can colour, so the cream Oyen island showed it as a black hole in its top edge. Where the island wraps a notch, the Oyen theme is now black like the notch, with Oyen on it: cream text, his orange (the play button and the volume bar too), his typeface and his face. On a Mac without a notch, and on Windows, Oyen stays cream.

Glass on the Mac. Pick Glass in the menu bar's Theme menu or on the Settings page. On a Mac, Glass is macOS's own glass: Liquid Glass on macOS 26, and a dark blur on macOS 14 and 15. It's the dark kind, so white text stays readable over any wallpaper. Where the island meets the notch it keeps a black strip that fades into the glass, and when it rests beside the notch it's black, as the notch is. The glass shows when the island opens. Oyen Poni doesn't record your screen for it: macOS draws the glass itself. If Glass looks flat, turn off Reduce transparency in System Settings › Accessibility › Display.

The System page reads your Mac. On the Mac the System page showed dashes and "Reading…". It now shows your Mac's CPU (every core, with the performance and efficiency cores on Apple silicon), its graphics processor, memory the way Activity Monitor splits it (with the pressure gauge and swap), your drives, the network connection in use, the battery (charge, cycles, health, Low Power Mode) and your apps using the most, with their icons, the way Stats lays them out. The apps, drives and battery are read only while the page is open. While it's closed, a light reading once a second keeps the charts' last minute, as on Windows, and nothing is read while the screen is asleep or the Mac is locked. macOS has no public way for apps to read temperatures or clock speeds, so those show a dash.

Install: download Oyen-Poni-Setup.exe and run it. It installs just for you (no admin rights) and can start with Windows. Or unzip the portable zip and run Poni\poni.exe.

On a Mac: open Oyen-Poni-Mac.dmg and drag Oyen Poni into Applications. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so the first time macOS warns you, click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Upgrading from 0.1.x: run the new installer. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings and data (%APPDATA%\Poni).

The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.