Luma
Pick your folders and Luma reads them right where they are, without copying a single file or uploading anything. FLAC and ALAC play lossless, and a menu bar player, keyboard shortcuts and media keys are there from the start.
Free for 30 days, then €39 once, on macOS 26 or later.
Built for the Mac
Luma is built natively for macOS and behaves like it, with a sidebar, right-click menus and a proper settings window. You can set up almost everything about it the way you listen.
Library
Pick your music folders with ⌘O. Luma reads them where they are and sorts everything by album, artist and song, rescanning at launch and with ⌘R. Move or rename files and they keep their likes, play counts and places in playlists.
Customizable
Your home page shows what you pin. You decide what the sidebar shows, whether dynamic playlists get a section of their own, whether collections come before playlists and what opens at launch. You also choose the app icon, a light or dark look and the shape of the covers.
Menu bar
Up in the menu bar you see the current song and what’s up next, without opening the window.
Media keys
If you like, your keyboard’s play/pause, next and previous keys always control Luma, even after a video played in the browser.
Equalizer
Ten bands with a curve and presets, and a double-click resets. Open it as a window with ⌥⌘E or right at the playback bar.
Controls
Search the whole library with ⌘F, select several songs with ⌘ and ⇧, right-click any item for its menu, and keep the queue in its own column alongside.
Playlists & export
You import and export playlists as files and back up the whole library to a folder. Whatever you delete goes to the Trash.
Edit info
Title, artist, album, genre and cover sit in one window, and you just drag a new cover in from the Finder.
Sound & library
That means lossless playback, clean transitions and a library that thinks along, and none of it needs an account.
FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and more play without conversion, exactly as they were mastered.
Live albums and mixes play without a gap, or Luma fades smoothly for up to twelve seconds.
Luma measures your library in the background, so no album is louder than the next.
Luma shows the lyrics from your music files, synced lyrics follow along, and nothing is downloaded from the internet.
Dynamic playlists fill themselves by your rules, say with 80s rock, and collections keep whole albums together.
Luma counts listening time, top songs and top artists, and the numbers stay on your Mac.
Luma Transfer built in
Select albums, playlists or your whole collection and choose “Send to iPhone with Luma Transfer”. Luma on your iPhone or iPad takes the songs in straight from device to device, with no server and no detour through the Finder.
More about Luma TransferOn the same Wi-Fi, Luma finds your iPhone by itself. A USB cable works just as well.
You confirm every transfer on the iPhone, so nobody can send you music unasked.
Songs already on the iPhone are skipped before a single byte is sent. If the connection drops, a second try only sends what’s still missing.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every command is also in the menu bar. If you like, Luma shows your friends on Discord what you’re listening to, and with “Hide Song Title” they only see that you’re listening to Luma. All shortcuts in the help center
Price
Download Luma for Mac and try it with every feature for 30 days. If you like it, unlock it with a license key for €39 once, for life and with all updates. The app comes straight from here as a DMG, not from the Mac App Store. It’s sold through the reseller Polar, and if you change your mind, you get your money back within 14 days (Purchase & license).
Promised: If Luma for Mac can ever no longer be continued, for economic reasons for example, the app becomes free and open source. What you bought stays yours either way.
Luma for iPhone and iPad is free on the App Store. If you only want to send music from your Mac to your iPhone, the free Luma Transfer is all you need.
FAQ
Step by step: set up and use Luma for Mac. Everything about the iPhone app is in the Luma help center.
Luma for Mac
Download the app, add your music folder and hear your collection the way it’s meant to sound. If you like it, Luma costs €39 once after that.