---
name: Zenteek
subtitle: A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
date: 2026-05-13
category: music
tags: [macos, music, audio, indie, hi-fi]
description: "Native macOS music player from a solo developer in the iTunes-as-library tradition — built for FLAC/ALAC/DSD collections, external DACs, and the experience of owning your music rather than streaming it."
link: https://zenteek.app
linkText: zenteek.app
source: "r/macapps"
fromFind: zenteek-music-player
---

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    <img src={slide1.src} width={slide1.width} height={slide1.height} alt="Zenteek's main library view — large album artwork, dense metadata, keyboard-navigable collection browser." />
    <figcaption>The library view opens to your collection — large artwork, dense metadata, keyboard-fast navigation.</figcaption>
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  <figure id="s2">
    <img src={slide2.src} width={slide2.width} height={slide2.height} alt="Graph-based search panel pivoting from an album to its label, artist, year, and tags." />
    <figcaption>Graph search: every album, artist, label, year, and tag is a node — pivot from one to another without losing place.</figcaption>
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  <figure id="s3">
    <img src={slide3.src} width={slide3.width} height={slide3.height} alt="Real-time audio visualizer rendering frequency-domain motion in a quiet, restrained style." />
    <figcaption>Visualizers — tasteful real-time motion, not a Winamp skin shop.</figcaption>
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  <figure id="s4">
    <img src={slide4.src} width={slide4.width} height={slide4.height} alt="DSP settings panel with parametric EQ curves, headphone correction profiles, and bit-perfect playback indicators." />
    <figcaption>Studio-grade DSP — parametric EQ, room correction, headphone profiles — with bit-perfect end-to-end playback when you want it off.</figcaption>
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> A native macOS music player in the iTunes-as-library tradition, by a solo developer who spent years on it. Built for collectors with thousands of local FLAC/ALAC/DSD files and the external DACs that audiophile-grade apps usually fumble. $79 launch / $99 regular, one-time purchase, 14-day trial.

Apple Music optimizes for streaming. Roon optimizes for whole-house audio. Audirvana optimizes for audiophile playback. None of them optimize for *the experience of owning a music collection* — flipping through cover art, reading credits, tagging, building playlists, simply getting lost in your own library. Zenteek is the app written for that experience. The window opens to your collection; recommendations don't.

The library view is CoverFlow-style: large artwork, dense metadata, fast keyboard navigation. Search is graph-based — every album, artist, label, year, and tag is a node, and you can pivot from one to another without losing your place. "Records I tagged 'late-night listening' from labels I've bought from before" is a single query. Smart playlists, mixtapes, and manual curation are all built in.

Bit-perfect playback end-to-end with first-class external DAC support. Studio-grade DSP for room correction, parametric EQ, and headphone correction — the audiophile features Audirvana is known for, but with a UI that doesn't fight you. Visualizers are tasteful, not Winamp-skin-shop. A mini player is there for when the full window is too much.

$79 launch / $99 regular, one-time purchase, no subscription. macOS 13+. The developer is building in public — the r/macapps thread has already shipped several feedback-driven updates, with AirPlay multiroom and Plex integration on the roadmap. The honest limitation: this is software with assumptions baked in. If your collection is 95% streaming, you are not the customer.
