Phosphor Stage turns your Apple TV into a screen that moves with your music. Link it to Phosphor on your Mac, or play your own files straight from the TV. Free. No account, no subscription.
Available only from the App Store on Apple TV. Open it on your TV and search Phosphor Stage.
Phosphor on your Mac listens to whatever is playing. Every Apple TV running Stage draws the scene itself at full resolution, locked to the Mac’s beat. One screen or a wall of them.
Picture only. The sound stays on your Mac. Needs Phosphor for Mac ($6.99) and the Phosphor Link add-on ($9.99).
Open the address Stage shows you in any browser on the same Wi-Fi, drop in your files, and they play from the Apple TV. MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF and FLAC.
A demo track is built in, so it plays the moment you install it.
Phosphor reads your Mac’s system audio, so anything playing works: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, a DJ app.
The Mac sends each Apple TV a small description of the music over your local network: bass, beat, spectrum. The music itself never leaves the Mac.
Every Apple TV renders the scene natively at its own resolution. Change the scene or the effects on the Mac and every screen follows.
Your files stay on your Apple TV and Link never leaves your local network. Phosphor Stage privacy policy →
Yes, with no in-app purchases. Playing your own music on the Apple TV costs nothing. Linking it to a Mac needs Phosphor for Mac ($6.99) and the Phosphor Link add-on ($9.99, one time), bought inside the Mac app.
No. Link sends the Mac’s analysis of the music, never the music itself. The sound keeps playing from your Mac and its speakers, and the TV draws the picture.
tvOS doesn’t let one app hear what another app is playing, so a visualizer on the Apple TV can’t listen to Apple Music, Spotify or anything else on it. Your Mac can. Phosphor on the Mac does the listening and tells every screen what it hears, which is why Link needs a Mac and why the sound stays there. When Stage plays your own files, it hears them directly, so that mode needs no Mac.
No. Sending the Mac’s sound away to AirPlay takes it out of what Phosphor can hear, and the visuals go quiet. Play the sound from the Mac or speakers connected to it.
Any number on the same local network. Each one draws the scene itself at its own resolution, locked to the same beat.
Bluetooth speakers and long cable runs reach the room late. Use the DELAY slider in Phosphor’s LINK settings on the Mac to hold the picture back by up to three seconds.
No. Open the address Stage shows you in any browser on the same Wi-Fi and drop in MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF or FLAC files. They play from the Apple TV. A demo track is included.
No. Link and the upload page work on your local network only, and Stage makes no internet connections at all.
Search Phosphor Stage in the App Store on your Apple TV.
