your Slack status, on the same wavelength as your music.
ViBeZ reads what's playing in Spotify or Apple Music, works out the vibe from the genre, and sets your Slack status to match. Stop the music and your old status comes back, exactly as you left it.
put this mix on, and your status says
for macOS 15 or laterneeds Slack, plus Spotify or Apple Musicno account, no subscription
fifteen ways to say “now playing”.
Press play and the mix runs: twelve public-domain tracks by HoliznaCC0. Pick a theme and every status on this page switches to it. These are real: rendered by the same code the app runs, on real tracks.
Plain
every one of these is editable. or make your own from a prefix, a suffix and a text transform.
it lives around your notch.
No menu-bar clutter and no window to manage. ViBeZ sits either side of your MacBook's notch: Loaf on the left, the cover art on the right. Hover it and it opens.
- Play, pause and skip from the top of your screen, without switching apps.
- The status you just posted, so you always know what Slack is saying.
- A pause switch for when you'd rather your status stayed put.
- Loaf DJs while the music plays, and naps when it stops.
- No notch? A small black pill at the top of your screen does the same job.
go on, hover the notch
play something. that's most of the setup.
- 01
connect Slack, once
One click. ViBeZ remembers what your status was first, so it can put it back later.
- 02
press play
In Spotify or Apple Music. ViBeZ looks up the artist's genre in Apple's music catalogue and picks the vibe: hip-hop gets Beats and bars, soul gets Grooves detected.
- 03
get on with your day
Your status follows the music. Pause or stop and your old status comes back, expiry and all. It never touches a status somebody else set.
it's yours to change.
everything ViBeZ ships is a draft, not a rule.
- The whole genre list, visible and mappable. Map it once and you're done.
- Your own vibes: your own status text and your own emoji for each one.
- One artist, one special status, with per-artist overrides.
- Your own themes, built from a prefix, a suffix and a text transform.
- Defaults that describe the music, never you. Nobody at work reads "Focused, do not disturb" because you put on some piano.
all your Slacks at once.
work and personal, or five of them.
- Each workspace gets its own switch, so the music can follow you into some Slacks and not others.
- It remembers what was there first in each one, and puts it back, expiry and all.
- It never touches a status somebody else set.
there's nothing to leak.
No account, no sign-up, no user database. Your Slack connection lives in your Mac's Keychain and your vibes live on your Mac. Nothing about what you listen to is ever sent to us: we keep no history of it, because we have nowhere to keep it. The full story is in the privacy policy.
- Needs
- macOS 15 or later, Slack, and Spotify or Apple Music.
- Licence
- One key, on any Mac you own. Checked when you activate and about weekly after; offline is fine.
- Updates
- Every future update included, delivered in the app.
- Made by
- Seven Ounce Computer Pty Ltd, in Australia. Not affiliated with Slack, Spotify or Apple.
burn yourself a copy.
$4.99 AUD, once. No subscription. Every future update included.
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