For the iPod you never let go
Load music onto your iPod without iTunes — drag, drop, done.
It knows what you plugged in
Detected by model and rendered on screen, from a silver Video to a black Classic to a lime nano. The mock below is exactly what the app shows.
Pull songs straight from Finder. Lumen reads the tags, fetches the art, and lands them on your iPod — no import wizard, no waiting on iTunes.
Model-aware rendering, a proper signed iTunesDB, and FireWire-ID detection mean the iPod on your desk and the one on your screen stay perfectly in sync.
No account. No analytics. No network calls, ever. Lumen works entirely on your Mac — your library never leaves the room.
It actually plays
A full player lives inside Lumen — Now Playing, a draggable scrubber, volume, a minimizable mini-player — and the music comes alive on a living iPod screen as it moves.
Lumen reads and writes your iPod entirely on this computer. It has no accounts, no analytics, and makes no network connections — your music and library never leave your device. And because every sync backs up the iPod's database first, changes are always reversible.
Pricing
No subscription. No account. Try the whole thing free for two weeks.
A single license for your Mac.
Questions
No. Lumen talks to your iPod directly and manages its music library on its own. You can leave iTunes (and the Music app) closed.
The newer models use a different database signature Lumen doesn’t write yet, so their libraries are safe to browse but not change — for now.
Yes. Before every sync, Lumen backs up your iPod's database file. If anything looks off, you can revert in a single click — nothing is ever one wrong move from gone.
macOS 12 (Monterey) and later, on both Apple silicon and Intel. Lumen is a native, notarized Mac app.
Nowhere. Lumen has no servers, no accounts, and makes no network connections. Everything happens locally on your Mac.