Spotifast is a native Spotify client written in Rust for Linux, macOS, and Windows that emphasizes speed and low resource use: it typically opens in under a second and uses about 100-250 MB of memory. It provides full Spotify Connect support (playback requires Spotify Premium), access to your library, playlists, albums, artists and podcasts, catalogue search, and editing of owned playlists. User-facing features include light/dark/custom themes (with an option to follow desktop theme on Omarchy), keyboard shortcuts and media-key support, and the ability to keep playback running after closing the main window. The project is open source on GitHub and distributed independently (not affiliated with Spotify).
A standout is a skinnable Winamp-style mini player that loads classic .wsz skins from the Winamp Skin Museum, complete with animated visualizers, an equalizer, playlist and a roll-up thin-bar view while preserving pixel sharpness. Spotifast also bundles MilkDrop-style visuals, automatically downloading the original MilkDrop 2 presets plus projectM’s "Cream of the Crop" collection (over 10,000 presets) for windowed or fullscreen visualizations. It’s built on fastframe and egui, has a sibling app ZapFast for WhatsApp, and offers documentation, downloads, and changelogs for users wanting to try or contribute.
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