Cantio 1.0.4

Floating pill now shows the full lyric line instead of truncating long lines with an ellipsis. Long lines wrap within the pill, and the pill can be dragged right up to either screen edge.

Cantio 1.0.3

Maintenance release. No user-facing changes since 1.0.2 — the app binary is functionally identical. Re-cut to keep the release line and Homebrew cask current after an internal snapshot-test fix.

Upgrade: brew upgrade --cask cantio. Universal (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 14+, unsigned (--no-quarantine).

Cantio 1.0.2

Onboarding polish. The Spotify consent prompt is now gated to the assistant's Connect Spotify step — permission is resolved with a no-ask query before any playback read, so the macOS Automation prompt can't fire standalone over the splash on first launch. It re-asks on the next poll (not one-shot), so a dismissed prompt or post-login TCC reset no longer strands the app.

Also: refreshed the onboarding preview lyrics and tidied copy on the Spotify step.

Upgrade: brew upgrade --cask cantio. Universal (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 14+, unsigned (--no-quarantine).

Cantio 1.0.1

Onboarding now asks for Spotify control in context. A new Connect Spotify step (just before launch-at-login) fires the macOS Automation prompt from inside the assistant, so it no longer pops standalone over the desktop on first launch. Adapts to each state — allow access, open Spotify, or re-enable under Automation → Spotify — and re-prompts if access is later revoked.

Upgrade: brew upgrade --cask cantio. Universal (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 14+, unsigned (--no-quarantine).

Cantio 1.0.0

First-run onboarding assistant: full-screen welcome (logo reveal, rising chime, drifting translucent backdrop) into a quick setup — accent, lines visible, font size, launch at login — with a live glass lyric-pill preview. Honors Reduce Motion / Reduce Transparency, keyboard- and VoiceOver-navigable.

Upgrade: brew upgrade --cask cantio. Universal (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 14+, unsigned (--no-quarantine).

Cantio 0.1.0

First public release of Cantio — floating Spotify lyrics for the macOS menu bar.

Highlights

• Floating pill lyrics synced to Spotify, draggable with alignment guides
• Fullscreen karaoke: big synced lyrics, album-art-tinted animated backdrop, auto-hiding transport controls (play/pause, ±10s seek, prev/next), scrubber
• Double-click the pill to enter fullscreen; double-click / Esc to exit
• HIG-native: glass materials, Reduce Motion / Reduce Transparency / VoiceOver support
• Privacy-first: reads Spotify locally via AppleScript, only network call is LRCLIB for lyrics

Install (Homebrew)

brew install --cask --no-quarantine notuselessdev/tap/cantio

--no-quarantine is required because the app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID.

Manual install

Download the DMG below, drag Cantio to Applications. On first launch, right-click → Open (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Cantio.app) since the app is unsigned.

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel).