Music
Sleeve: Put the album back on your desktop.
Sleeve is a lightweight macOS now-playing accessory for Apple Music, Spotify, and Doppler, with customizable album art, track details, playback controls, and no subscription.
A desktop accessory wins by refusing to become another music player.
Album art and music controls that belong on the Mac desktop again.
Sleeve leaves playback and libraries to Apple Music, Spotify, and Doppler, then improves the layer those apps neglect: the album art, context, and controls you glance at all day. That narrow boundary keeps the product expressive without making it heavy.
At a glance
- Platforms
- Mac
- Price
- Direct $5.99 · Mac App Store $7.99 · no subscription
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- Sleeve adds a desktop layer to existing music players — The official page documents album artwork, track information, playback controls, themes, and layout customization for Apple Music, Spotify, and Doppler.
- Native players are supported; web players are not — Replay's help page says Sleeve works with the native Apple Music, Spotify, and Doppler apps and does not support browser players.
- Current release and platform requirement checked — Apple lists version 3.3.1, updated July 15, 2026, for macOS 26 or later.
- Public studio attribution matched — Replay describes itself as the two-person studio of Alasdair Monk and Hector Simpson. This is public attribution, not an ownership claim.
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