Your Turntable, Your Room, Your Records
2dle puts a 3D record player on your Mac desktop and plays along with your music. Put on a song in Spotify, Apple Music or any Mac player, and the record spins, the needle follows along, and the sleeve shows your album. Then make it yours: 6 turntables, 12 scenes, 12 records to collect and clocks to earn. That's the whole idea! (Okay, mostly.)
Features
Listens in on Spotify, Apple Music and other Mac music apps (politely!)
Puts your album cover on the sleeve and on the record
12 scenes for your turntable to live in
6 turntables to choose from
12 records to collect, just by listening
A desk clock on the house, and 5 more: one for each friend you invite
Dynamic daylight and weather
A whole variety of easter eggs, animations and references to find
Lots of attention to detail (you'll see)
The most transparent project team out there
And more to come!
About the Team
Hey! We're Masashi and Yuki (co-author), two high schoolers with a big love of music. 2dle is our passion project, made with love in our spare time. We're based in Tokyo, Japan.
Why a turntable? Because on a high schooler's budget, we couldn't afford real ones! So we went after that dream the way we love best: by coding it. We've been at it for a few months now, and we're nowhere near done.
Our Values
Transparency
Community
Passion
Roadmap
Open-sourcing 2dle
Making 2dle a much, much lighter app (your Mac's fans will thank us!)
Bringing 2dle to Windows and Linux
More features that make the most of your profile
More scenes, turntables and records (tell us what you'd like to see in the feedback form !)
Scenes, turntables and records you can customize yourself
Perks for donators
Buy Us a Sandwich
2dle is free, and it runs on passion (and sandwiches). It's just the two of us, both still in high school, with not much spare time and even less budget, so every sandwich counts! If 2dle makes your desk a happier place, you can buy us one. Your donation would literally mean the world to us.
Where do the sandwiches go? This website's domain and the databases behind your accounts come straight out of our own pockets. Nobody pays us to make 2dle, so a sandwich really does keep the lights on!
Either way, thank you for stopping by. We really, really appreciate it!
Buy us a sandwich
Tell Us What You Think
We care a lot about transparency and community, so we want your opinions on how we can make 2dle better. What you love, what bugs you, what you wish it did: all of it! No kidding, you're the most valued person around here.
Tell us what you think
Q&A
How do you pronounce 2dle?
“Needle”! 2 is 二 in Japanese, which is read “ni”. Ni-dle. Needle. Yeah, we know.
Is 2dle open source?
Not yet! It would be our very first open-source project, so we hope to get there one day. Community and transparency are what we care about, and it's on our roadmap.
Is 2dle free?
Yep! All of it. We don't believe in freemium or subscriptions. I mean, remember that one time you finished editing a video and the app wanted $9.99 a month just to take its watermark off? Yeah. None of that here. If you'd like to back us, you can buy us a sandwich .
Which music apps does 2dle follow?
Spotify and Apple Music, plus other Mac music apps that tell macOS what they're playing. Music in a web browser doesn't count, sorry!
Why does 2dle ask to control Spotify?
So it can read the album cover and where you are in the song, and so play, pause and skip work. It only politely eavesdrops, promise.
What does 2dle send over the internet?
The artist, album and song you're playing go to public music catalogues (Apple, Deezer and Spotify), so it can find covers, track lists and tempo. Your listening history never leaves your Mac. Turn on Copy Local Weather and your rough location goes to a weather service, and now and then the app asks GitHub if there's a newer 2dle. If you make an account, we also keep your email address, the name you pick and a few usage totals. Add friends, and they see the song you're playing right now and your 2dle stats, unless you switch on Ghost mode. The whole list is on our privacy page !
Does 2dle work offline?
It does! New album covers need a connection, though, so until you're back online 2dle keeps the last cover it has.
Will there be a Windows or Linux version?
We'd love that! Both are on our roadmap. Click Windows or Linux there and leave your email, and we'll tell you the moment it's out!
