Download

The current version is v0.14.2. You can use the download checksums to check that a file has not been damaged or changed. Older versions are on the releases page.

macOS

One download for both Apple Silicon and Intel:

Open the downloaded file and drag Spotifast to Applications.

If you use Homebrew, you can install it with:

brew install --cask crmne/tap/spotifast

First open on macOS

Open Spotifast from Applications. If your Mac asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet, choose Open.

Starting with 0.8.0, the Mac download passes Apple’s security checks. You do not need to change security settings or run commands in Terminal to open it.

Quit the old app before opening Spotifast. Your saved settings and sign-ins carry over. If an older version reports that its update helper exited before it was ready, install the DMG above manually once. The helper changes take effect for updates started from 0.9.1 onward.

Windows

Download and run the installer. It adds Spotifast to the Start menu and does not need an administrator password. Choose the first download for most PCs, or the ARM version if your PC uses an ARM processor:

The installer is a Windows Installer package (.msi). Spotifast installed with the earlier setup program (-setup.exe) moves to it when you run the new installer, and keeps its settings, its folder and its Start menu entry. Windows then lists one Spotifast under installed apps. Versions 0.13.0 and later also move to it through their own updates; 0.12.x and earlier no longer find updates, so run the installer once by hand.

To run Spotifast without an installer, download a ZIP file, extract it, and open spotifast.exe. Since 0.13.4, it keeps its settings, state and caches in a spotifast-data folder next to it, so the folder carries everything (see portable copies).

Either way, SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher on first run; choose More info, then Run anyway. The Windows files are not signed with a publisher certificate, so Windows has no publisher name to show.

Spotifast needs OpenGL 2.0 or newer, which every current Windows graphics driver provides. In a virtual machine or remote session that only has the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, it cannot open its window and says so in a message that links to this page; install the machine’s graphics driver, or enable GPU acceleration for the virtual machine.

To choose which app opens Spotify links, use Settings → Apps → Default apps in Windows.

Uninstalling while Spotifast runs removes nothing until it is closed. The installer offers to close it for you; closing it that way ends it at once.

Check a Windows download

To check a file against the published checksums, print its SHA-256 hash in PowerShell and compare it with that file’s line, ignoring letter case:

Get-FileHash "$HOME\Downloads\spotifast-v0.14.2-*-pc-windows-msvc*"

If Windows Security flags a download, open Windows Security → Virus & threat protection → Protection history and note the threat name. Include it, and the file’s hash, when you report the problem. To ask Microsoft to review the file, send it through Submit a file for malware analysis as incorrectly detected.

Linux

Arch Linux

Spotifast is in the AUR, Arch’s community package collection. Installing it also adds it to your app launcher:

yay -S spotifast-bin      # the released build, ready made
yay -S spotifast          # the release, built from source
yay -S spotifast-git      # built from the latest commit

Flatpak

Download the Spotifast Flatpak. It requires Flatpak and the Freedesktop 25.08 runtime, a set of shared components used by Flatpak apps:

flatpak install --user ~/Downloads/spotifast-v0.14.2-x86_64.flatpak
flatpak run rocks.spotifast.Spotifast

The application ID is rocks.spotifast.Spotifast.

To update this Flatpak installation, download and install the new release. Flathub support is planned.

Packages from other stores are maintained by their publishers. Report problems specific to those packages to their maintainers.

AppImage

One file, no installation: make it executable and run it.

chmod +x ~/Downloads/spotifast-0.14.2-x86_64.AppImage
~/Downloads/spotifast-0.14.2-x86_64.AppImage

The AppImage bundles no libraries: like the DEB and RPM, it needs glibc 2.39 or newer and your desktop’s own libraries. Running it needs FUSE; without FUSE, start it with --appimage-extract-and-run.

From the release after 0.13.3, the AppImage updates itself like the portable downloads, as long as it sits in a folder of your own, such as ~/Applications: Spotifast replaces the file in place and restarts it. It also carries update information, so AppImageUpdate, AppImageLauncher, AM and Gear Lever can update it too, downloading only what changed. Copies of 0.13.3 and earlier need one more manual download.

Other distributions

Unpack, put spotifast on your PATH, and copy the desktop entry and icon from the bundled packaging/ directory if you want it in your launcher and handling spotify: links. The binary needs the ALSA and PipeWire libraries, and Wayland or X11. It plays through PipeWire, a PulseAudio server, or ALSA, whichever is running.

Or build from source: see the build instructions.

Nix

Add the repository flake to your inputs:

inputs.spotifast.url = "github:crmne/spotifast";

On NixOS, install the default package:

environment.systemPackages = [
  inputs.spotifast.packages."${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}".default
];

nix-darwin

On macOS, use the same spotifast package to install Spotifast as a Mac app:

environment.systemPackages = [
  inputs.spotifast.packages."${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}".spotifast
];
environment.pathsToLink = [ "/Applications" ];

The bundle appears in /Applications/Nix Apps. With Home Manager, home.packages is enough; its darwin support links app bundles into ~/Applications:

home.packages = [
  inputs.spotifast.packages."${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}".spotifast
];