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This app lets you turn the MacBook Pro’s glowing Apple logo into a music visualizer.

The Verge •
November 09, 2026 • 02:42 PM
• By Andrew Liszewski
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Backglow is a free macOS app giving you control over the brightness of the new touchscreen MBP’s glowing logo. You can also turn it off, make it breathe, or use it as a battery meter that dims as the laptop’s charge drops. The $15 pro version (temporarily discounted to $9 at launch) makes the logo pulse along with music you’re listening to, or turns it into a status light for Claude Code. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/mbp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

This app lets you turn the MacBook Pro’s glowing Apple logo into a music visualizer.

Backglow is a free macOS app giving you control over the brightness of the new touchscreen MBP’s glowing logo . You can also turn it off, make it breathe, or use it as a battery meter that dims as the laptop’s charge drops. The $15 pro version (temporarily discounted to $9 at launch) makes the logo pulse along with music you’re listening to, or turns it into a status light for Claude Code.

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