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Introduction

Amee is a macOS app: a floating, always-on-top, transparent mini player that shows whatever’s currently playing on your Mac — any app, not just one music service — plus an audio-reactive visualizer. It sits on top of everything else on screen, follows you between apps, and stays out of the way until you want it.

The Amee mini player: album art, track title and artist, transport controls, a progress bar, and a volume button, in a single floating pill.

Amee shows the title, artist, album art, and playback position of whatever’s currently playing — Music, Spotify, a browser tab, anything — and lets you play/pause/skip, seek, and control system volume and output device, all from a small floating pill that stays on top of every other window.

Amee supports skins — a full replacement of the mini player’s UI: layout, controls, the visualizer, anything. Amee’s own default look (classic) is itself just a skin. Install one from the skin store or write your own. See Skins.

Underneath any skin sit themes — a set of color and style tokens that change how every surface looks (the dashboard, the built-in skin, any skin that reads the tokens) without touching layout or behavior. See Themes.

An optional extension for Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers lets Amee see what a browser tab is playing, jump straight back to it, and follow a video that’s been popped out into Picture-in-Picture — the one case macOS’s own now-playing information can’t cover. See Browser Extension.

Start with Getting Started to install and set up Amee. The Features section covers everything the app does out of the box — now playing, the visualizer, volume/output control, window behavior, and the settings dashboard. Customization covers skins, themes, and the skin SDK for anyone building their own skin.