Orbit
Volume mixer, window switcher & clipboard in one menu bar
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Orbit puts the tools you reach for all day behind one menu bar icon on your Mac. A per-app volume mixer: boost any app up to 2x and route each one to its own output device. A window switcher with three styles that covers every desktop. Unlimited clipboard history with starring and per-item expiry. Plus a system monitor with per-process CPU, GPU and battery, and screen capture with a full annotation editor. Native Swift, no accounts, no telemetry. Free tier + Pro with a 14-day trial. macOS 14.4+.
PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 25 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
No Deep native macOS system programming is required, specifically building an audio virtual device/driver (CoreAudio AudioServerPlugIn) to intercept and control per-app volume.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires native Swift/Objective-C and C++ code interfacing with macOS CoreAudio HAL and writing a virtual audio driver or AudioServerPlugIn to achieve per-process audio capture and gain adjustment. Additionally, it must leverage low-level macOS Accessibility APIs, CoreGraphics private APIs (CGSWindow), and SkyLight frameworks for multi-desktop window switching, requiring code signing, notarization, and system extension entitlements. This requires specialized systems-level macOS engineers with deep knowledge of CoreAudio internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 732 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #624 of 733 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- utuvo-orbit · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MixBar: Volume Mixer & EQ · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Tuno · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Barista · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Audio Priority Bar · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- VolMix · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Earmix · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- sidelet · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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