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nowbar for Mac

Menu bar item that replaces the Now Playing icon with the album art of the current track.

By arian-shamaei. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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nowbar at a glance

Version
1.1
Released
19 August 2026
Download size
713 KB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
arian-shamaei
GitHub stars
2

About nowbar

Live album-art menu bar item for macOS — replaces the static Now Playing glyph

Screenshots

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How to install nowbar on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for nowbar and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.1 from arian-shamaei's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to nowbar show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: nowbar-1.1.zip (713 KB).

What is new in nowbar 1.1

Scrolling marquee titles like the native Now Playing, Liquid Glass panel and scrubber on macOS Tahoe, a live audio-reactive equalizer (direct-download build, macOS 14.4+), hover-enhanced seek bar, and browser sessions now resolve to their app — Safari playback shows the Safari icon in the menu bar when there's no artwork.

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