Spotify and Netflix are joining Omarchy’s default web apps
Music and movies come preinstalled on fresh Omarchy machines, with a native Spotify client still taking over when you have one.
Image: omacom/omarchy pull request #18485 (GitHub)
Two big streaming services are about to be on every new Omarchy machine from the first boot. DHH merged a pull request on November 11, 2026 that ships Spotify as a default web app, and a few hours later he merged a second one that does the same for Netflix. Both are coming in the next version.
According to DHH’s PR, Spotify now ships “like YouTube and the other default web apps”: a Spotify.desktop launcher in applications/, with its icon bundled alongside, so it’s there on new machines from the start.
Your muscle memory is safe. Super + Shift + M keeps its binding, and omarchy-launch-spotify now launches or focuses the native client when /usr/bin/spotify is installed, and the web app otherwise. As the PR puts it, “existing native installs are unaffected.”
With the web app in place, the on-demand installer and the Install > Service > Spotify menu entry are gone. The manual now notes the trade-off: the web player has no offline downloads, and that’s where the launcher’s preference for an installed native client comes in handy.
Netflix follows in a separate PR opened by omarchybot and merged by DHH the same day. It joins the default web apps for new installs, and the PR is explicit that no migration adds it to existing ones: “a refresh of the shipped launchers or Restore Preinstalls picks it up like any other.”
Playback is covered too. The PR explains that new installs launch web apps in Chrome, which carries the Widevine CDM that Netflix needs to play. And like YouTube and Zoom, the Netflix window drops the chromium-based-browser tag, so the player can float instead of being forced to tile.
Even the icon got some thought. It’s Netflix’s own red “N” on a black rounded square, the way Netflix’s app tile draws it, because the PR notes the full wordmark turns into an unreadable strip at launcher and dock sizes.
