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.

Oyen Poni 0.1.18

Show over games: FPS, GPU and CPU on the island. Switch on Show over games (System › Games, or right-click the island › In full-screen apps › Show FPS, GPU and CPU over games). While a game fills the screen in borderless full-screen, the island becomes a small readout: frames per second, the graphics card's load and temperature, and the CPU's load, once a second. Hover it to open the island as usual. Turning it on keeps the island on top of full-screen apps, and picking Hide there turns it off.

Counted from Windows, not from inside the game. Frames come from Windows' own log of each frame a game hands to the screen, the way Intel's PresentMon and Xbox Game Bar count them. Nothing is loaded into the game, so anti-cheat has nothing to see. DirectX 9 to 12 games count from their own Present calls, Vulkan and OpenGL games from the graphics kernel's log. Only the game in front is counted, and nothing runs while no game is in front or while the readout is off.

A one-time OK for FPS. Windows lets only admins and its Performance Log Users group read that log. The first time, System › Games shows Allow FPS. Windows then asks once for an admin OK, which adds your account to that group (Xbox Game Bar's FPS counter asks the same), and FPS shows from your next sign-in. Until then the readout shows GPU and CPU and a dash for FPS. To undo it, remove your account from Performance Log Users; the README says how.

System › Games. A new Games tile on the System page holds the switch, the one-time OK, the frame rate's last minute, frame times (the average and the slowest in the last second) and the game in front.

A game in exclusive full-screen mode still covers the island, as it covers every window. Show over games is on Windows only.

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 0.1.17

Add-ons: features you download only if you use them. The new + at the end of the tabs lists them. Switching one on downloads its files from this project's releases, each checked against the fingerprint built into the app. Switching it off deletes them. While every add-on is off, nothing is downloaded.

Prayer times, the first add-on. Today's times for your kab/kota as Kemenag RI publishes them, the next prayer and how long until it, and the qibla. Windows' location picks the nearest of Kemenag's 517 places and checks again every few hours, so a trip moves the place. The point is used once and stays on your PC. You can also type your kab/kota. Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah use Umm al-Qura. The island counts down the 10 minutes before each prayer and says when it's time, with a short tone, the adzan recorded at Masjidil Haram, or nothing. Music pauses for the adzan, and Stop ends it. Checked against Kemenag's 2026 schedule: 98.2% of 227,367 times match to the minute, and none is more than a minute off. Switching it on downloads 1.9 MB.

Your Oyenza, live, by day. The Oyenza tab now lists every transaction of the last 7 days, money in and money out, not only money that came in by itself. Pick a day on the strip (Sun to Thu, Yesterday or Today) to see it newest first, with that day's money in and out. Something logged while you look glows for a minute. Tomorrow and Later list the subscriptions and card bills due in the next 30 days. While the tab is open it checks Oyenza every 15 seconds; closed, it doesn't.

Money out, too. When Oyenza logs spending by itself, like a card charge read from your bank's email, the island says "Money out · BCA", next to the money-in notice. Sums stay hidden until you click Show, there and in the tab.

What Oyen Poni's key reads changes with this: your last 7 days of transactions (titles, sums, categories, wallets and times), never balances, account numbers, notes or receipts. oyenza.app's approve screen and privacy page say so.

The System page, redone. It now reads Windows' own kernel counters, the way system monitors on the Mac read macOS, and lays them out in rings and charts:

• CPU: the load split between Windows and apps, the temperature (or the processor's power) when your PC reports it, the speed, one bar per core with performance and efficiency cores apart, and the eight processes using the most.
• GPU (new): the busiest engine, the 3D, copy and video engines, video memory, and the temperature, fan and clock when the driver reports them.
• Memory: pressure on a gauge, and what fills memory: apps, wired, compressed, cached and free.
• Drives, network and battery: read and write speeds with the processes reading and writing the most, download and upload side by side with the interface, address and link speed, and the battery's health against when it was new.

A strip across the top shows every part's live value over its last minute; click one to open it. The charts are full the moment the page opens: the last minute keeps going while it's closed, with one light reading a second (about a third of a millisecond of processor time). Right-click › Keep System page history turns that off. The Task Manager button is gone. No driver, no admin rights, and nothing leaves your PC.

Drag the time bar to jump anywhere in a song. Hold the time bar on the Music page and slide: the knob and both times follow your pointer, and the song jumps there when you let go, even off the bar. A click still jumps straight there.

Oyen Poni for Mac, a test build. Each release now carries Oyen-Poni-Mac.dmg beside the Windows installer, for macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon or Intel: the island, music with synced lyrics from Music and Spotify, the focus timer, the Shelf with Phone drop over the same Wi-Fi, tasks and clipboard history. Glass, paired phones, Oyenza sign-in and add-ons aren't on the Mac yet, and its phone panel now says "this Mac" instead of "this PC".

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 0.1.16

Glass looks like glass on more PCs. On many PCs, Windows' colour settings draw the desktop in 16-bit colour even with HDR off. Oyen Poni took that for HDR and fell back to a flat grey island. Now Glass bends and frosts what's under it there too, and on displays with HDR on, Oyen Poni converts the colours itself. On laptops with two graphics cards, it now finds the one that can copy the screen. Where Glass still can't copy the screen, its stand-in is see-through instead of solid grey.

The island closes again after you pair a phone. After a phone finished pairing, the island could stay open for up to 10 minutes, on every page. Now the Shelf's phone panel keeps the island open only while you're on the Shelf and its code is waiting for a phone, and the island says when your phone is paired.

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.

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 0.1.15

Japanese romaji reads closer to how it's sung. Numbers now read together with their counters: 二人 "futari", 一人 "hitori", 一歩 "ippo", 三本 "sanbon", 何分 "nanpun". は after a word always reads "wa", in には and では and after verbs too: 心には is "kokoro ni wa" (on PCs with Japanese typing it came out "kokoroniha"). Words the built-in dictionary was missing now read right as well, among them 愛おしい, 失くす, 彷徨う and 揺蕩う.

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.

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.