SoundsMac
Give your Mac a voice with custom sounds for everyday events
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SoundsMac brings sound to everyday Mac interactions with 19 system events, 7 built-in themes, and custom sounds. Includes lid angle detection, knock detection, keyboard clicks, per-event volume controls, and more. Runs natively on macOS, completely offline, with no analytics or telemetry. Try it free for 7 days, then get lifetime access for $5. Trial code: TRIAL-V6WD6-AF87U
PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial While basic macOS audio playback and standard event listeners are straightforward, low-level hardware hooks like Apple Silicon lid angle sensors and microphone knock detection require undocumented IOKit/CoreMotion APIs.
What it would actually take: A native Swift menu bar app using AppKit, CoreAudio, and standard Accessibility APIs for keystroke intercepts. The difficult part is reverse-engineering private IOKit/HID services to read the proprietary lid sensor angles on Apple Silicon, as well as digital signal processing algorithms on raw microphone input to filter false positives for physical knock detection. This requires specialized low-level Apple hardware internals knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 910 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #795 of 911 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- thockmac · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- SOUND · ph · 2026-09-26 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Hearby · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- SoundIn · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CupertinoClicks · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TuningMac · ph · 2026-11-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- seam · ph · 2026-11-07 · 92 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TAWK · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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