Lull is a calm, native macOS player for everything you listen to but don't watch – podcasts, radio, your own files, and audio from the channels, playlists, and videos you already love. A quiet listening instrument instead of a browser tab that eats your RAM and your attention.
14-day free trial, then one-time purchase · no subscription · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+ · ~65 MB.
You already listen all day – podcasts, mixes, talks, lectures. But a browser spends 300 MB–1 GB rendering a video you're not even watching, in a tab you keep losing. Lull is just the sound: it plays the audio in the background and gets out of the way.
Add a podcast feed, a radio stream, a local file, or paste a link.
Lull 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. ~65 MB and about a one-second start, all day.
Heart channels, playlists and feeds; queue, search, per-track resume, and loudness normalization across every source.
A refined paper theme and a true night theme, considered down to the serif “L”. Calm by design.
| A browser tab | A free utility | Lull | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | 300 MB–1 GB | varies | ~65 MB |
| Runs in the background | eats a tab | terminal / fiddly | menu bar, media keys |
| Podcasts · radio · local · links | one at a time | usually one kind | all of them, one library |
| Resume · queue · normalize | – | – | built in |
| Feels like | a browser | a script | a calm instrument |
There are free tools that play web audio, and they work. Lull costs money because it's the one built to be a pleasure to use for eight hours a day – native, quiet, considered, and supported by a person who keeps it working.
Lull is made by one developer, working in the open. No fake testimonials – a real changelog, an honest roadmap, and a person who answers email. Reviews will go here as they arrive.
Lull 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. Lull 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 sources can briefly break – true of every tool in this category. My job is to ship a fix fast, and podcasts, radio, and your own files keep playing regardless. Lull updates quietly, and there's a 30-day refund if it isn't holding up.
No. You pay once and own it. A later optional renewal buys new sources and features – never “pay or it breaks.”
The sound stays. The noise goes.