AirCheck
Record your Mac's system audio to a file, no driver
Details
- External ID
- 1261102
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- AirCheck
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Music, Audio
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- driverless mac system audio recorder
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 339 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #201 of 340 (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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