Dannify: Free Music Player for Windows, macOS & Linux (YouTube Music + Your Files, Live EQ, Synced Lyrics)

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Your shelf. Their catalogue. One window. Desk included.
Free · Windows 10 & 11 · macOS (Apple silicon & Intel) · Linux · six languages

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Home with the sound desk open, and Now Playing with lyrics in time.

Five faders. Everything else sits behind them.

• Find: type a name and the song plays in about a third of a second. Suggestions appear as you type.
• Mix: drag a dot and the live spectrum answers under your finger. Bass · Vocal · Afrobeats · Late night come built in, and the presets you make stay.
• Shelf: your own files and YouTube Music in one library, drawn as you scroll. Thousands of songs open in a moment.
• Keep: one press makes a real file: MP3 · FLAC · OGG · Opus · M4A, tagged, with cover art and synced lyrics.
• Wait: close the window and it drops to the tray, paused on the second you stopped. Delete a file under the queue and it streams instead. Move it and the queue follows.

The two a power user spots first

• Your whole library over your own Wi-Fi: one config line, one key, phone included.
• Paste a Spotify link and it resolves with no Spotify account, no API key, no Premium.

✨ Everything behind the faders (tap to open)

• Lyrics in time: the line being sung lights up word by word. Click the line you hear to sync it, pick the best of several versions, or write your own (type a chorus once, repeat it).
• Made for you: On Repeat, Top This Month, Forgotten Favourites and Recently Added, mixes that update themselves as you listen.
• Your Soundtrack: today, this week, this month and this year in music, told as stories, with a card to share as a picture.
• Stats & History: time listened, streaks, the hours you listen at, your top songs, artists and albums. Your YouTube Music listening on phone and web counts too. It all stays on your computer.
• Albums: every album you’ve saved from, in album order with real track numbers. The full album is one click away.
• Command palette: Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac) jumps to any page, setting, playlist, artist or album. L likes the song, Ctrl+D saves it, 0–9 jump through it.
• Discord & ListenBrainz: show what’s playing on your Discord profile with artwork and a progress bar, and send your listens to ListenBrainz. Both stay off until you switch them on.
• Never silent: when the queue runs out with no connection, it carries on from your library.
• Six languages: English, Français, Kiswahili, Español, Português, Deutsch. It starts in yours.
• Special days: snow at Christmas, confetti at New Year, and the days your part of the world celebrates.
• Mini player, crossfade, and a Now Playing background that drifts in the colours of the artwork.

Get it

Your computer	Download	First run
Windows 10 / 11	Dannify-Setup-….exe	Run it. If SmartScreen appears: More info → Run anyway
Mac, Apple silicon	macos-Dannify-…-arm64.dmg	Drag to Applications, then right-click → Open the first time
Mac, Intel	macos-Dannify-…-x64.dmg	Same as above
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint (64-bit)	linux-dannify_…_amd64.deb	sudo apt install ./linux-dannify_*_amd64.deb

→ All files on the latest release

Those first-run prompts are normal for a one-person app: Windows doesn’t know a brand-new app yet, and the Mac build isn’t notarized by Apple. Every file is built on GitHub’s own machines and ships with a .dsig release signature beside it.

Updates look after themselves

The GitHub page is the shop. Dannify updates itself from it, a few hundred kB at a time, and checks every update against its release signature before installing anything. It comes back playing right where you were, and your music, settings and sign-in always stay.

You’re early

First release 23 September 2026, now on 4.14.1, one developer, shipping fast. Something off, or something missing? Reply here, open an issue, or tell the developer from inside the app. Reports land in the next build, screenshots included.

Free to use. If it earns its place on your desk, there’s a Sponsor button on the GitHub page (any amount, and GitHub keeps no fee), or M-Pesa from Kenya.

[Arun_Kumar5]

hey created a version for linux too i have given you a pr

[Arfan_Evan]

It feels like I’m using something premium. Really appreciate your work, welldone.

Edit: Just found that i can’t follow some profiles, though they exist and their items are playable but in case of profiles, it shows this.

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Noted.Will be solved in future release

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Noted​Thanks so much

[Adward_Dew]

it so clean and premium , very pleasing , thanks

[boni_benson]

It only saves the file as DNF.
How can I download it as an MP3 file?
I can’t find any setting that lets me change the output format.

edit:
If you want to save files in other formats such as MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG, or OPUS, use version 3.2 and do not update.

Starting with the versions after 3.2, the files are saved as DNF files, which are basically useless. You can only play DNF files on a computer using Dannify.

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Future updates will support those downloads. v3.2 has critical security issues.

[ai_daily_tools]

Finally gave this a spin after the thread kept getting bumped — the UI really is as clean as everyone says, and 24 MB for something this polished is impressive.

On the DNF vs MP3 question: since the dev flagged v3.2 as having critical security issues, I’d stay on the current build rather than downgrade. A practical workaround in the meantime is checking whether your media player handles the DNF files directly — VLC tends to play formats most players choke on, so it might just work as-is until the official export update lands.

[roronoabenny]

hello op! seems great, i would suggest to add discord rpc to it

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Mp3 and other formats coming soon.

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

Noted.We shall consider this on future releases. Hit Donation button!!

[DANIEL_MWENDWA]

The tour: one screen at a time

The first post is the spec sheet. This one walks through the rooms. Everything here landed in the last few builds, and 4.14 is the freshest.

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1 · Home knows what you’ve been playing

Today, this week, this month and this year sit across the top of Home, and each one opens its own story. Under them, four mixes rebuild themselves as you listen: On Repeat, Top This Month, Forgotten Favourites and Recently Added.

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2 · Your Soundtrack, not just in December

Your top songs, your top artists, the minutes you listened, and your listening personality. Play the top songs right away, save them as a playlist, or share the card as a picture. Today, this week and this month get one too.

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3 · Lyrics that keep time

Click the line you’re hearing and every word lines up. Earlier and Later nudge it. Pick the best of several versions, then watch the line being sung light up word by word.

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4 · Your listening, counted

Time listened, songs played, artists, days in a row, and a bar for every day. Sign in with Google and the YouTube Music you play on your phone counts too. All of it stays on your computer.

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5 · And the desk: that’s the green box in the main picture of the first post. Equalizer, effects, space and pre-amp, one click from the play bar.

What are you trying first?

• The sound desk and EQ presets
• Lyrics in time
• Your Soundtrack and stats
• Pasting a Spotify link
• Saving songs as real files

Tried it? Drop a screenshot of your Soundtrack card or your EQ curve below Bugs and ideas go straight into the next build.

[Stifen]

So cool. Loving it

[Grace2077]

I’ve been in the same boat for years — Spotify for discovery, but a folder of old FLAC rips I keep going back to, and switching between two apps is just friction. The unified library is what caught my eye here. Honest question: when you save a track as a real file, what’s the source quality for YouTube Music streams? I assume it’s limited to whatever the stream offers, not true lossless. And does the Wi-Fi library sync keep play counts, or is it read-only on the phone? Curious to try the Spotify link paste first.