Scrobblr · Last.fm scrobbler for Apple Music on macOS

001 Overview

It lives in the menu bar

Scrobblr watches Apple Music and submits every qualifying play to Last.fm. It queues when you are offline, survives sleep and reboots, and asks for nothing while it works.

There is no account with us and no server in between. Plays travel from your Mac to ws.audioscrobbler.com, signed with your own key.

Signed · NotarizedDeveloper ID · Hardened runtime

Universal binaryApple Silicon · Intel

Self-updatingSparkle 2 · EdDSA

Scrobblr · Menu bar

Now playing

Glass Hours

Marginalia · Night Paper

2:31 Scrobbles at 50% 4:03

Queue0 pending

Today23 plays

StatusConnected ✓

Stats · Settings · Pause 30 min

The menu bar dropdown, redrawn in HTML · sample data

002 Principles

Four commitments

01 Reliable

Every play that meets Last.fm's 50 percent or 4 minute rule is queued and submitted. Pending plays survive reboots, sleep, and offline stretches.

Disk-backed queue

02 Private

No analytics, no telemetry, no author-controlled servers. Scrobblr talks to Last.fm and to Apple's anonymous search API for album art. Nothing else.

No analytics

03 Honest

A clear Music access flow with plain-English prompts. Credentials live in your Keychain. Logs redact track titles.

Keychain only

04 Yours

Bring your own Last.fm API key. No shared key that can be revoked and break the app for everyone.

BYOK

003 Statsninety days at a glance

See what you play

A native stats window shows your music life as Last.fm knows it. Top tracks, artists, and albums with inline bars. A period selector from seven days to all time.

The 90-day heatmap marks your busiest day, and every row clicks through to Last.fm.