Sonara
Free open-source music player for Mac, built by a student
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Sonara is a free music player for Mac (Apple Silicon) with no signup and no subscription. It streams through the free Audius API and includes offline downloads, synced lyrics, radio, charts, album pages, playlists, and shelves across 7 Indian languages. Built from scratch in vanilla JS by a first-year CS student learning to code.
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PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Music
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Yes A music player that streams from the public Audius API with playlists, lyrics, and downloads is a well-scoped desktop app that a builder can vibe-code, as the description itself indicates.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #58 of 311 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
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