AudioCentral
Control every app’s audio from your Mac’s menu bar.
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Designed as a set-and-forget way to control audio for every app and device on your Mac, AudioCentral delivers refined sound in a sleek, user-friendly package. Per-app volume and routing to any device, with equalizers and AI speech isolation built in. AudioCentral works directly with macOS: no kernel extensions, no reboots, no audio-stack surgery — just a clean, native experience built around the system you already use.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 25 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Music
- Menu Bar Apps
- Audio
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and routing logic are buildable, but per-app audio capture and routing without a kernel extension depends on macOS Core Audio process taps, and AI speech isolation needs a trained model.
What it would actually take: Build a Swift/SwiftUI menu bar app on Core Audio process taps (macOS 14.2+) and an aggregate-device router for per-app volume and output selection. The hard parts are low-latency audio routing and DSP for the equalizer, plus integrating or training a speech-separation model that runs on-device. That requires an audio/DSP engineer and macOS audio internals experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 564 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #55 of 565 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Audio Selector · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- TuningMac · ph · 2026-11-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Sound Contour · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MixBar: Volume Mixer & EQ · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Acoustic Orbit · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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