Your DAC deserves the bits you paid for.

KraiAudio takes exclusive control of your output device, follows each track's own sample rate, and gets out of the way. Core Audio's mixer never touches the signal.

Tell me when it is out

US$29 launch price ~~US$39~~ · perpetual licence · one Mac

Not out yet — the Windows player shipped first and this one is waiting on Apple's notarisation. macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon. There will be a 14-day trial, with no payment details to start it.

Bit-perfect, and honest about it

Most players claim bit-perfect. KraiAudio shows you, per track, what the DAC is actually receiving — and says so plainly when it cannot get there.

DSD file → DoP over hog mode — DSD over PCM, the bitstream intact

↳ DAC will not take DoP → converted to PCM, and the badge stops claiming otherwise

↳ PCM → the file's own rate, the device follows the track, never a fixed rate

Hog mode: the device is yours alone while a track plays, so the system mixer is out of the path. Other apps go quiet — that is the trade, and it is a switch you control.
The engine sets the device's nominal rate per track, and restores it when you quit.
A bit-perfect badge that reads real device state rather than intent.
Verified on real hardware — Topping DX5 II and Sound Blaster G8 — not only in a test harness.

Everything else a listening session needs

A real library

Albums, artists, genres, favourites, playlists and smart playlists over a SQLite library, with search everywhere and tag editing built in. Multichannel releases stay their own album instead of merging with the stereo one.

Headphone correction

Bring a correction from autoeq.app — search your headphones there, export it, import it here — then pull the curve around by hand on a live graph and save it.

Headphone simulator

Give it a measurement of your headphones and one of another pair, and it fits the difference — roughly what the other pair would sound like on your system.

Formats

FLAC, WAV, DSF, DFF, ALAC and AAC, MP3, Ogg and Opus. ReplayGain tags are read and applied, so albums do not jump in volume.

Gapless and crossfade

Live albums and DJ mixes play through without a hole between tracks, or with a crossfade if you prefer one.

Offline after activation

Activating is the only network call the player ever makes. After it, the machine can stay unplugged forever.

Try it first, then one price

Fourteen days, every feature, no payment details. The reason the trial exists: this player lives or dies on how it behaves with your DAC, and no compatibility table settles that as well as an evening of listening.

Perpetual licence for KraiAudio for Mac v1 — not a rental.
One Mac, and you move it to another yourself whenever you like.
Reinstalling macOS changes nothing: the machine code follows the hardware.
14-day refund on top of the trial, no questions asked.
Paid through Lemon Squeezy, which handles VAT and sales tax for your country.

Tell me when it is out Try the Windows player

Questions worth answering honestly

How does activation work?: You get a licence key by email. Paste it into the player, click Activate, and that is the whole of it. After that the player is fully offline.
I bought a new Mac.: Click Deactivate in the player on the old one, then activate the new one with the same key. There is no limit on how often you move it. Do it before you sell or wipe the old Mac — once you no longer have it, only I can free the licence, so email me.
Why one Mac and not three?: Because you can move it yourself in two clicks, which is the part that usually needs the bigger number. This is bought once and supported for years rather than billed monthly, so what you get is one copy of the player, running wherever you choose to put it.
Does it work with my DAC?: Probably, and the trial is how you find out for certain. It has been tested against a small number of real DACs, not hundreds — if yours misbehaves, tell me what it is and I will try to fix it.
Why does everything else go silent while it plays?: Only if you turn on bit-perfect mode, which takes exclusive control of the device. That is what keeps the system mixer out of the signal. Turn it off and the Mac behaves normally.
Is it the same as the Windows version?: Same idea, separate code, so the details differ: this one reads more formats, the Windows player has a larger parametric EQ and native DSD over ASIO. Both have the trial, and a licence covers one of them.
Will version 2 be a paid upgrade?: Undecided, and I would rather say that than promise free upgrades forever and walk it back. What is settled: your v1 licence keeps working.