Island for your desktop

Your music.
A little closer.

Keep the song and its words at the top of your screen. Island makes a little room for Spotify, so you can stay with what you’re doing.

Get Island Meet the plugin

Open source · Spotify integration for macOS

Spotify for IslandRenderer preview
Compact Spotify preview: playing bars and the sample line Your music, a little closer
Actual renderer · original sample content

A small lyric strip. A quieter desktop.

Notched MacBook or external display.

A glance is enough.

Your current lyric has a place of its own. Music stays close while the rest of your screen stays yours.

Explore Spotify for Island
Follow the words.
Synced lyrics follow Spotify Desktop playback, with lookups from LRCLIB and NetEase.
Keep your place.
A compact strip sits at the top of your display. Right-click to collapse it when you want more space.
Choose what runs.
Open Market to browse plugins, review their permissions, and manage what’s installed.

One plugin.
A closer listen.

Spotify is Island’s first integration. It reads the desktop app you already use, with no extra Spotify login.

See the Spotify plugin
Spotify renderer sample with synced lyrics and transport controls
Expanded renderer sample · the bundled plugin uses the compact strip.

Your Island.
Your plugins.

Discover what belongs on your desktop, then keep it under your control.

A home for your add-ons.

Market brings the catalog, plugin previews, and installation review into one window. My plugins shows what’s running and what needs attention.

Install a local package, switch a plugin off, or remove it while keeping its data for later.

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Make a little room.

Build Island from source and give your music a place on your desktop.

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