A native macOS music player in the iTunes-as-library tradition, by a solo developer who spent years on it. Built for collectors with thousands of local FLAC/ALAC/DSD files and the external DACs that audiophile-grade apps usually fumble. $79 launch / $99 regular, one-time purchase, 14-day trial.

Apple Music optimizes for streaming. Roon optimizes for whole-house audio. Audirvana optimizes for audiophile playback. None of them optimize for the experience of owning a music collection — flipping through cover art, reading credits, tagging, building playlists, simply getting lost in your own library. Zenteek is the app written for that experience. The window opens to your collection; recommendations don’t.

The library view is CoverFlow-style: large artwork, dense metadata, fast keyboard navigation. Search is graph-based — every album, artist, label, year, and tag is a node, and you can pivot from one to another without losing your place. “Records I tagged ‘late-night listening’ from labels I’ve bought from before” is a single query. Smart playlists, mixtapes, and manual curation are all built in.

Bit-perfect playback end-to-end with first-class external DAC support. Studio-grade DSP for room correction, parametric EQ, and headphone correction — the audiophile features Audirvana is known for, but with a UI that doesn’t fight you. Visualizers are tasteful, not Winamp-skin-shop. A mini player is there for when the full window is too much.

$79 launch / $99 regular, one-time purchase, no subscription. macOS 13+. The developer is building in public — the r/macapps thread has already shipped several feedback-driven updates, with AirPlay multiroom and Plex integration on the roadmap. The honest limitation: this is software with assumptions baked in. If your collection is 95% streaming, you are not the customer.