JBLControl
JBL speaker control, right in your menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1275587
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- JBLControl
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
JBLControl puts your JBL Bluetooth speaker in your Mac's menu bar. See battery, model and firmware, switch JBL's EQ presets (Signature, Chill, Energetic, Vocal) and fine-tune a 7-band custom EQ with a live response curve. Switch speakers with one click, get low-battery alerts and launch at login. Verified on Flip 7 and Charge 6, with beta support for Charge 5, Xtreme, Go, Clip and more. Native SwiftUI with Liquid Glass. Free, open source, no accounts. Unofficial.
Enrichment
- Niche
- audio and device utility tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar speaker controls for jbl users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A macOS menu bar app is straightforward, but communicating with JBL speakers requires reverse-engineering JBL's proprietary Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or RFCOMM serial protocol commands for EQ and telemetry.
What it would actually take: A native Swift macOS app using CoreBluetooth to interface directly with JBL hardware. The challenging element is sniffing and reverse-engineering the proprietary GATT services/characteristics and binary packets used by the official JBL Portable mobile app for EQ switching, battery telemetry, and handshake routines. Requires hardware reverse engineering, Bluetooth packet sniffing tools (like Wireshark with packetlogger), and protocol reverse engineering skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 257 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #143 of 258 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
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