I brought Toastify back to life — Toastify Reloaded, a modern Windows companion for Spotify
Some of you may remember Toastify, the lightweight Windows utility that added global Spotify hotkeys and highly customizable track notifications.
I really liked the original project, but over the years Spotify and Windows changed enough that the old application became increasingly difficult to use.
So I started working on Toastify Reloaded.
The goal is not to replace the original Toastify with a completely different application. I want to preserve the classic Toastify experience and UI while modernizing everything underneath it.
What Toastify Reloaded can currently do:
• Global Spotify hotkeys that work even when another application is focused
•Play / Pause, Next, Previous, Seek, Volume and Mute controls
•Classic Toastify-style song notifications
•Automatic toast width based on the song title and artist
•Spotify album artwork inside the toast
•Toastify icon fallback when album artwork isn’t available
•Optional song progress bar
•Optional current time / total song duration
•Configurable Fade In / Fade Out
•Slide and Fade + Slide animations
•Independent Slide In and Slide Out directions
•Multi-monitor support and positioning presets
•Full toast color customization
•13 built-in toast themes + Custom
•Light, Dark and Follow Windows application themes
•English and Italian interface (ATM)
•Import / export settings
•System tray support
•Spicetify / Lyrics Plus integration
•Automatic repair of Spicetify after Spotify updates
•Compatibility Guard to detect Spotify version changes
•Automatic Toastify Reloaded updates
•Normal Windows installer and uninstaller (ATM)
•Windows x64 and ARM64 builds (ATM)
Toast themes
The current presets include:
Classic Toastify, Spotify Green, Midnight Blue, Neon Purple, Cyberpunk, Crimson Night, Amber Gold, Emerald, Ocean, Sakura, Arctic, Monochrome and Retro Synthwave.
The original Classic Toastify appearance is still available and remains an important part of the project.
Why “Reloaded”?
A big part of this project is making Toastify resilient to modern Spotify updates.
Spotify updates can overwrite Spicetify modifications, so Toastify Reloaded includes a Compatibility Guard that can detect when Spotify changes version and automatically attempt to restore Spicetify and Lyrics Plus.
The actual playback controls are kept separate from Spotify’s UI and use Windows media sessions, which makes the core functionality much less dependent on Spotify’s internal interface.
Credits
Toastify Reloaded wouldn’t exist without the original Toastify project.
Special credit goes to:
nachmore, creator/maintainer of the original Toastify GitHub project
Alessandro Attard Barbini (@aleab), maintainer of the later Toastify fork and the historical 1.11.x generation that became a major visual and behavioral reference for Reloaded
Toastify Reloaded is an independent community continuation. The original developers are not responsible for this project or its new code.
Open source
Toastify Reloaded is open source under GPL-2.0.
GitHub repository:
There are Windows installers available directly from the GitHub Releases page.
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The project is still actively evolving, so I’d really appreciate feedback from people who used the original Toastify.
In particular, I’d love to hear:
what features from the original Toastify you consider essential;
what you’d improve in the current UI;
ideas for additional toast themes;
animation ideas;
Spotify/Spicetify compatibility issues;
anything that would make Reloaded more useful without losing the simplicity of the original.
Bug reports, suggestions and contributions are very welcome.
Classic Toastify experience. Modern Spotify compatibility.