Code · Mac and iPhone app

AppleNugs

An unofficial Mac and iPhone app for your own nugs.net subscription, with a real queue, gapless segues, lossless audio where nugs offers it, and offline shows on the phone.

Download for Mac → Source on GitHub → v1.5 · free · MIT

The AppleNugs window on macOS in the Tape Room theme: artist sidebar, an expanded show, the dashboard inspector open on the right showing format and buffer, and the transport bar along the bottom — The Mac app in the Tape Room theme, with the inspector showing format and buffer.

The five AppleNugs themes side by side: Tape Room, Shoebox, The Receiver, Click Wheel and Soundboard, each showing its own mini-player treatment — Five themes: Tape Room, Shoebox, The Receiver, Click Wheel and Soundboard.

The Goose artist page in AppleNugs: a Shows/Videos/Albums scope picker reading 484 shows, a filter field, and dense one-line rows of venue, city and date under sticky month headers — An artist's shows as one-line rows, filterable by venue, city or date.

The AppleNugs iPhone app on the Library tab's Downloads segment: one Goose show saved offline at 12 tracks and 1.2 GB, with the now-playing pill above the tab bar showing cover art ringed by a progress arc — On iPhone, whole shows download for offline, gapless listening.

§ What it does

Live sets run long and songs segue into each other, so a gap between tracks or a weak queue breaks the music. AppleNugs keeps the next track ready while the current one plays, so segues land without a gap, and plays lossless ALAC or FLAC wherever nugs offers it.

It signs in with your own nugs.net account and talks to nugs.net directly, with nothing in between. The quality readout comes from the decoder, so if it says ALAC 24/96, it is ALAC 24/96.

§ Features

Gapless segues and a real queue you can reorder and clear.
Lossless playback where nugs offers it, with a measured quality readout.
Five themes: Tape Room, Shoebox, The Receiver, Click Wheel and Soundboard.
An artist's shows as a filterable list by venue, city or date.
Video: Continue Watching, Live & Upcoming, chapters, and full screen on the Mac.
iPhone: offline shows, background audio, lock-screen controls and Picture in Picture.
Media keys, Control Center, AirPods, AirPlay and keyboard shortcuts.

§ At a glance

Mac	macOS 14 or later
iPhone	Build it yourself · iOS 26.1+
Version	1.5 · Aug 18, 2026
Price	Free · needs nugs.net
License	MIT, code only
Updates	Sparkle, built in

§ Not affiliated

AppleNugs is an independent client. It isn't affiliated with, authorized, sponsored, or endorsed by nugs.net. It signs in with your own account and plays exactly what your subscription already entitles you to. Shows saved for offline listening stay inside the app on your own device. It redistributes nothing and circumvents no DRM. You're responsible for following the nugs.net Terms of Service.

§ Questions

Is AppleNugs an official nugs.net app?: No. It's an independent client that signs in with your own nugs.net account.
Can I listen offline?: On the iPhone, yes. Whole shows download in the best lossless format offered and play with no network, gapless included.
Is the iPhone app in the App Store?: No. You build it yourself and run it on your own device. There's no App Store or TestFlight build.
How does the Mac app update?: Through Sparkle. Install the signed DMG once and it updates itself. Check for Updates… is in the app menu.

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