Earmix
Per-app volume, EQ and output for your Mac
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Turn Spotify down, the Zoom call up and that autoplay tab off. Earmix is a menu bar mixer that gives every Mac app and browser tab its own volume (up to 400%), EQ and output. Plus call ducking, call recording and an iPhone remote. Runs locally.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 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
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
- Audio
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Could you build this?
Partial The menu bar UI, EQ and call ducking are vibe-codeable, but true per-app volume and output routing on macOS depends on low-level Core Audio APIs and possibly virtual audio drivers that an AI assistant will struggle to get right.
What it would actually take: Per-app gain requires Core Audio process taps (macOS 14.2+) or a virtual audio device, with a Swift/Objective-C app, real-time audio thread handling and a signed, notarized build. The hard part is low-latency audio routing that doesn't glitch or break on OS updates, which calls for someone with macOS audio internals experience and extensive testing across hardware and apps.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1057 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #553 of 1058 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- VolMix · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- MixBar: Volume Mixer & EQ · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- SOUND · ph · 2026-09-26 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- mactooloud · ph · 2026-09-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- TuningMac · ph · 2026-11-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- WormaSounds · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Audio Selector · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BalanceBar · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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