VolMix
Per-app volume and mute, right in your Mac menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1275136
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- VolMix
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
VolMix gives every Mac app its own volume slider and mute button in the menu bar. Keep calls at 100% while music plays at 20%, save volume scenes, switch output devices and use global shortcuts. No audio driver to install, no account, no data collected. 7-day free trial, then $4.99 once.
Enrichment
- Niche
- custom keyboards and input tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- per-app volume mixer for mac menu bar
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Intercepting and controlling per-application audio streams on macOS without installing third-party kernel extensions/audio drivers requires private CoreAudio APIs or macOS 13+ AudioHardware APIs, which involves complex native macOS system programming.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift/Objective-C using macOS CoreAudio and ProcessTap APIs (introduced in macOS 14.2) or private AudioServerPlugIn mechanisms. The hard part is managing audio stream tap lifecycles across sleep/wake, sandbox permissions, and per-process audio isolation without latency or kernel panics. A native macOS systems developer with low-level audio engineering experience is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 493 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #282 of 494 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
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