Every app.
Its own volume.

macOS gives you one volume slider for everything. mixr gives one to each app — silence the noisy one, keep the music, and your microphone never switches behind your back.

Live demo — drag the sliders
Apple Music
Music70%
Google Chrome
Chrome55%
Zoom
Zoom40%
auto-duck: music lowered
watch: when a call starts, mixr ducks your music — and brings it back after.

Free to use, forever. Pro is a $19 one-time purchase — yours forever, 12 months of updates, no subscription.

Launching at $19 — use code FOUNDERS for $12 through Sunday, August 9.

Volume, finally per-app

Mute the loud app, keep the music FREE

A slider and mute for every app playing audio, with live meters so you can see who's making noise. That one blaring tab? Silence its browser without touching anything else. Set Zoom to 40% once — it stays there. And when an app's too quiet, push it the other way — past 100%, a real boost, not just down.

Your microphone, pinned

macOS stops switching your mic FREE

Rank your microphones once. mixr always picks the best one that's actually connected — AirPods can't hijack input, and if your mic dies mid-call, the fallback is yours, not random. Prefer to pick it yourself? Force any device with one click — mixr backs off until you're done.

Calls that behave

Music ducks for calls, then comes back

When any mic goes live, mixr lowers your music — gently on headphones, fully on speakers — and restores it the moment you hang up. It's on by default and it just works; Pro tunes how far it ducks and what's exempt.

Built like it belongs

No drivers. No virtual devices. Nothing to break.

mixr uses macOS's modern audio APIs — one standard permission, native Liquid Glass UI, ~0% CPU at idle. Quit it anytime and every app instantly returns to normal. Every file it writes and every endpoint it talks to will be published.

Setup Advisor

It reads your setup and tells you what it sees

On first run, mixr looks at your actual audio hardware and describes it in plain language — the mic it'll use, your headphones, your interface. Then it flags the things macOS quietly gets wrong:

  • AirPods drop to call quality the moment they become your mic — so mixr keeps input on something better.
  • A closed lid muffles the built-in mic — so mixr moves off it.
  • Some interfaces can't be muted in software — mixr tells you up front, and how to handle it.
Honest handling

It won't fake what it can't do

mixr would rather tell you the truth than pretend. It never fakes a mute it can't actually deliver. It mutes the app itself — not a browser tab — and tells you which. Every device decision it makes is shown, not buried. And it works with your hardware instead of fighting it. No telemetry, no surprises — you can see exactly what it's doing.

Free vs Pro

Free is everything macOS should have shipped.

Pro is where mixr fits your setup. Two options, that's all — no trial timer, no account, and the free column stays free forever.

Feature Free Pro
Per-app volume, mute, live meters Included Included
Boost past 100% Included Included
Mic ranking & pinning Included Included
Auto-duck on calls Included tunable
Apple Shortcuts control Included Included
Setup Advisor first-run hardware check Included Included
Profiles saved audio states Not included Included
Stream Deck control dials, keys, live feedback Not included Included

Everything in the Free column is free for as long as you like — it isn't a trial, and nothing expires. Pro is $19 once.