Any output for any app.
Your call in your AirPods, the music on the speakers. When a device disconnects, the app follows your Mac, and goes back when it reconnects.
Every app.
Its own volume.
Mixpilot puts a volume slider for each app in your menu bar, and turns everything else down when a call starts.
Version 0.1 · macOS 14.4 or later · Free
Open the disk image and drag Mixpilot into the Applications folder.
Volume for each app
Turn down what you don’t need.
Hear what you do.
Every app that plays sound gets its own slider and mute button, right in the menu bar. Music softer, the video louder, notifications quiet. Mixpilot remembers each app and sets it again the next time it plays.
Call Mode
Calls come first.
When a call starts in WhatsApp, FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, Webex, Discord or a browser tab, every other app fades down, and comes back when you hang up. You choose how quiet. Your own volumes never change.
Your microphone at a glance.
See which apps use it, set its input volume, and turn it off for every app at once. The menu bar shows when it’s off.
Keyboard shortcuts.
Turn the microphone or call mode on or off, and the app in front up or down, from anywhere.
Never louder than the app.
Mixpilot only turns apps down, never up past their own level, to protect your hearing and your speakers.
Made for macOS.
Native controls and Liquid Glass, light and dark, VoiceOver and keyboard navigation, in English and German.
Nothing goes silent.
If Mixpilot quits or crashes, every app plays normally again, and a microphone it turned off comes back on.
Privacy
Sound stays on your Mac.
Mixpilot changes sound on your Mac, as it plays. It never records, saves or sends it. No accounts, no analytics, no network access.
Free. For your Mac.
Open the disk image and drag Mixpilot into the Applications folder.
Requires macOS 14.4 or later. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.