MixBar: Volume Mixer & EQ
Per-app audio & sound control
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Give every app its own volume — and its own sound. MixBar is a native menu bar mixer for macOS. Every running app gets a real volume slider, its own output device and its own equalizer, so your music, meetings and browser stop fighting over one system volume. It also includes 4,000+ calibrated headphone EQ profiles. There is no audio driver to install: MixBar uses the audio taps built into macOS, and audio is never recorded or sent anywhere.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Partial The menu bar UI and sliders are vibe-codeable, but per-app audio capture and routing require low-level macOS Core Audio work, and the 4,000+ calibrated headphone profiles are proprietary measurement data.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native Swift app using Core Audio process taps (macOS 14.2+) or a virtual audio driver for per-app output routing, plus an equalizer DSP pipeline. The calibrated headphone library requires acoustic measurement equipment and data, or licensing from an existing database, so macOS audio expertise and measurement resources are needed.
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Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
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