hiljaa plays everything you listen to but don't watch – podcasts, radio, your own files, and audio from the links you already love. A quiet listening instrument instead of a browser tab that eats your RAM and your attention.
Private beta · by invitation · no account · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+.
Podcasts, mixes, talks, lectures. But a browser burns 300 MB to a gigabyte rendering a video you're not even watching, in a tab you keep losing. hiljaa is just the sound.
Add a podcast feed, a radio stream, a local file, or paste a link.
hiljaa plays the audio in about a second – no video, no page, no browser tab.
Menu-bar mini, media keys, Control Center, and it resumes 3-hour sets exactly where you left off.
libmpv, not a browser or Electron. About 65 MB and a one-second start.
Podcasts (RSS), internet radio, local files, and audio from the links you paste.
Heart channels, playlists and feeds; a queue and search that stay yours.
Per-track resume, to the second, even on a 3-hour set.
Loudness normalization so a mixed queue never suddenly blasts you.
Playback speed for lectures, talks, and podcasts, without the chipmunk.
Download tracks to keep listening on a plane or off the grid.
Play, pause, and skip from anywhere. Control Center and launch-at-login too.
A refined paper theme and a true night theme. Calm by design.
You could. But a tab is a browser, not a player, and the difference shows up fast.
There are free tools that play web audio, and they work. hiljaa will be a paid app because it's the one built to be a pleasure to use for eight hours a day – native, quiet, considered, and kept working. It's free for now while it's in beta.
YouTube
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
Mixcloud
Vimeo
Dailymotion
Twitch
Audiomack
Archive.org
Podcasts (RSS)
Internet radio
Local files
hiljaa isn't affiliated with or endorsed by these services. Names and logos are the property of their owners.
hiljaa is in an invite-only beta, so it's free right now – no account, no card. When it's ready it'll be a one-time purchase, never a subscription, and beta testers get first dibs at the early price.
hiljaa is a player, like a browser or a media player. It doesn't host, sell, or distribute any content – it plays audio from feeds and links you choose to give it, on your own Mac. hiljaa isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of the sites it can play from.
Honestly: some sites change how they work from time to time, and playback from those link sources can briefly break – true of every tool in this category. Fixes ship fast, and podcasts, radio, and your own files keep playing regardless. In beta especially, telling me when something breaks is the most useful thing you can do – the feedback board is the best place.
No. It's free during the beta; when it launches you'll pay once and own it. A later optional renewal adds new sources – never “pay or it breaks.”
Private beta · by invitation · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+.