BalanceBar
Share Mac audio and set each ear’s volume
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Details
- External ID
- 1277869
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Balance
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps
Description
A free Mac menu-bar app for sharing audio through two outputs with separate device volumes, plus mono, balance and independent left/right ear levels on supported headphones. Quick controls without digging through settings. No app account, subscriptions or in-app ads. Includes an interactive web preview. macOS 13+; device support varies. Current download is not yet Apple-notarized.
Enrichment
- Niche
- custom keyboards and input tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- audio sharing and balance control tool for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Controlling split audio routing, multi-device outputs, and per-channel ear levels on macOS requires deep CoreAudio C/C++ development and low-level virtual audio device drivers.
What it would actually take: Building this requires developing a macOS Menu Bar app in Swift interfacing with CoreAudio, AudioServerPlugin, and AudioToolbox APIs to manipulate hardware output streams. Splitting audio across multiple physical hardware outputs with sub-millisecond sync typically requires creating a dynamic Aggregate Device or a virtual audio HAL driver. This requires low-level audio engineering expertise that AI assistants struggle to generate reliably.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 406 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #247 of 407 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53