Ambient Lighting on Your Mac

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Lumn — ambient light for your MacIf you liked Lumn, consider checking out Snick which I developed as well. Follow me on X for updates and new Mac apps

Lumn<br>Ambient lighting for your Mac, that syncs with all your songs — see your lights react every beat<br>Buy for MacDownload<br>One-time purchase · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

See it in action

Make it yours<br>Make your Mac<br>your mood.<br>Every part of the light is yours to move — the color it throws, whether it dances or holds still, how far it spills, how thick it sits.

LumnActive<br>Lumn<br>Gradient2 Colors<br>AnimationMusic Sync<br>Notch compatibility<br>Thickness<br>Glow<br>Override album color<br>Primary 60%

Secondary 40%

Display<br>Built-in Retina Display

Any color you like<br>Pick a palette by hand, or let Lumn read what's on screen and follow it.

Move, or stay still<br>React to every beat, or hold one steady idle glow and forget it's there.

Dial the glow<br>From a whisper along the bezel to a wash that fills the whole room.

Set the thickness<br>A hairline of light, a broad band, or anything between the two.

Five minutes<br>Install in five steps<br>No installer, no account. Download it, drop it in, grant one permission, and let it glow.<br>Auto-updates via Sparkle<br>1Download the app<br>Grab Lumn-1.1.dmg and open it.

2Move to Applications<br>Drag Lumn.app into your Applications folder.

3Open & allow system audio<br>Launch Lumn and let it listen to your Mac's system audio when macOS asks. Never your microphone.

4Activate<br>Paste your license key into the menu to unlock.

5Press play<br>That's it — your screen starts glowing. Tune it from the menu bar.

FAQs<br>Good questions

What does Lumn do?Lumn turns the edges of your Mac's display into ambient rim lighting that reacts to whatever's playing in Music or Spotify — color follows the album art, motion follows the beat. It also adds a liquid-glass now-playing card on your lock screen.

Does it come with the liquid glass lockscreen player?<br>Does Lumn listen to me or record my screen?<br>What does it need permission for?<br>Will it slow down my Mac or drain battery?<br>How many Macs does one license cover?

Ready to light up the room?<br>Buy for MacDownload

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