
Having the artist and song name appear in the Menu Bar is optional, but I think it’s a nice touch because it lets me see what’s playing without having to open the app. When you start to play any music in Spotify, you can click the Menu Bar icon to interact with what’s playing: Once installed, a new icon appears in your Menu Bar that looks an a lot like the Spotify app icon: It brings a Now Playing-like interface made specifically for Spotify to the Menu Bar on your Mac so that you can interact with your music more easily.


Written entirely from Swift, this app is a combination of two older apps known as Trayplay and Statusfy. Mac users with a preference for streaming their favorite music tracks via Spotify instead of Apple Music are going to love an extension for macOS dubbed SpotMenu.
