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Free · Studio companion · Transparent by default

Cafecito

The little café that lives on a track. It keeps time, keeps score, and keeps you company while you work, and it stays out of your sound.

☕ Get Cafecito — free Free forever

VST3 · AU · Standalone  ·  Mac · Windows · Linux
Saves inside your session  ·  No account, no internet

☕ Cafecito on: LEAD VOX
25:00
Focus · pull a shot
+ Coffee 2 + Tea 1
On this track today   2h 14m
To do
re-amp guitar DI
email mix to Sam
Doing
comp the vocal
Done
tune pre-chorus
Ain tune
C G D A E B F♯ D♭ A♭ E♭ B♭ F
Crel. Am
Tap a key to hear it · IV–V and pop loop below
  • ✓ tune the pre-chorus
  • re-amp the guitar DI
  • print a rough for the drive home
  • email the mix to Sam

The menu

Everything you keep on a sticky note, kept inside the session.

Cafecito sits on any track like an insert, but instead of shaping sound it holds the little stuff you lose track of while you work. It all saves with the project, per track, so it is right where you left it next time you open the song. Turn any of it on or off from the modules menu and run it as a bare timer or the full rig.

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Per-track Pomodoro

A focus timer on the track you are working. Adjustable focus and break lengths, a soft chime and a little confetti when a round ends, and an option to start and stop with your DAW’s transport.

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Time on this track

An always-running total of real time spent on this track. It keeps counting with the editor closed, saves with the project, and picks up where it left off.

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Coffee & tea log

Tap a cup every time you refill. Silly, useful, and weirdly motivating. Your day, measured in cafecitos.

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Notes

A session notepad with adjustable text size. Save or load a .txt, and everything saves inside the project too. “Vocal flat at 1:12,” pinned to the song.

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To-dos

An iOS-style checklist per track. Tap the ring to complete an item and it strikes through. Tune the pre-chorus, re-amp the DI, email the mix.

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Kanban board

A little board of sticky notes. Add cards, drag them between columns, rename or add your own columns. Ideas, tracking, done, for a single song.

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Chromatic tuner

The strip at the top reads the track and shows the nearest note and how many cents sharp or flat, green when you are in tune. A quick check on guitar, bass or a vocal.

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Circle of fifths

Three rings per key: major, its relative minor, and the vii° diminished. Tap a wedge to hear the note on a soft piano and see the relative minor, key signature, IV and V, and a I–vi–IV–V pop loop.

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Inspo links

Park the reference track, the tutorial, the preset page. Click open and it launches in your browser. Everything about the song, one tap away.

It stays out of your sound

Transparent until you want a hand.

By default Cafecito is a clean pass-through: audio in, audio out, unity gain, zero latency. The one thing it can do to your sound is an optional trim. Nudge the ±24 dB output, watch a real analog VU needle (0 VU sits at the Siesta house level of -18 dBFS) with a live peak readout, and you have a quiet gain-stage helper on any bus. Double-click the trim to snap back to unity and it disappears again.

Make it yours

Six looks, and only the tools you want.

Open it minimal as a “master station” you glance at on a bus, or expand it to the full six-tab workspace. The modules menu turns every part on or off, from the board to the tuner to the VU meter, and the window resizes to fit. Pick a theme and it saves with the track.

  Kraft · Linen · Sage · Slate · Blush · Midnight

Take one home

Add Cafecito to your cart. It’s free.

Grab it on its own, or drop it in alongside a paid plugin and check out once. Your download link lands in your email the second you finish.

☕ Get Cafecito — free Free forever

macOS 10.13+ (universal, signed & notarized) · Windows 10+ · Linux x86_64
VST3 · AU · Standalone  ·  No AAX, so not for Pro Tools  ·  No account, no internet, no iLok
Quit your DAW before installing. Download link arrives by email.  ·  Read the manual (PDF)