Fastpotify gives you a lightweight native Spotify app built in Rust

If you want Spotify without a memory-hogging browser engine attached, a new native Rust client just dropped.

Developer crmne released Fastpotify, a lightweight desktop client that picked up 559 GitHub stars in its first week. Built with egui for UI and librespot for audio, it runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows without embedding Chromium or Electron. It boots up in well under a second and stays small while running.

Why it matters: Official desktop streaming apps often eat hundreds of megabytes of system memory just to sit in the background. Fastpotify delivers local library navigation, network speaker discovery via mDNS, and Spotify Connect controls in a lightweight footprint. It even includes a Winamp mini-player mode that loads classic .wsz skin files pixel-for-pixel.

Audio playback requires a Spotify Premium account, though free accounts can still browse libraries and playlists. Arch Linux users can grab it from the AUR (yay -S fastpotify-bin), macOS users can use Homebrew (brew install --cask crmne/tap/fastpotify), or you can build the binary directly with cargo install --path ..

Finally, a desktop music app that treats your computer's RAM with a little respect.