AirCheck
Record your Mac's system audio to a file, no driver
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AirCheck records whatever your Mac plays: system audio, calls, streams and DJ sets, straight to WAV or MP3 with one button. No loopback driver. $39 once, macOS 14+.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Music
- Audio
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Could you build this?
Partial macOS 14 (Sonoma) introduced the ScreenCaptureKit audio-only capture API which enables driverless system audio recording, but robust audio buffer encoding in Swift requires specialized CoreAudio/AVFoundation handling.
What it would actually take: Implemented as a native Swift/macOS application utilizing Apple's `ScreenCaptureKit` (`SCStream` configured for audio-only capture without screen video) to bypass legacy kernel extension audio drivers. The audio stream PCM buffers must then be piped into `AVAudioEngine` or LAME/libavcodec for real-time MP3/WAV encoding and disk serialization without buffer overruns or sample rate mismatches.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 871 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #734 of 872 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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