AppFader — Per-App Volume Control for Mac
AppFader app icon AppFader · For Mac

Every app gets its own volume.

Your Mac has one volume slider. AppFader gives one to every app that's playing sound, right in the menu bar, so music can sit quietly under a call and a noisy browser tab never drowns out what you want to hear.

Download on the Mac App Store See how it works

Requires macOS 14.2 or later · Audio is mixed on your Mac and never leaves it.

The AppFader panel open below its menu bar icon, with separate volume sliders and level meters for Music, Safari, FaceTime and Google Chrome, and Podcasts muted until later.
Per-app volume

Turn the music down. Keep the call loud.

Every app that makes sound shows up in AppFader with its own slider, mute button and live level meter. Set each one just where you want it, and see at a glance which app is making noise.

  • A slider, mute button and level meter for every app
  • Browser audio grouped under Safari or Chrome
AppFader showing Music at 62%, Safari at 100%, FaceTime at 90% and Google Chrome at 40%.
Rules

Mute Music on every call, automatically.

Tell AppFader to mute one app whenever another is running: Music while FaceTime is open, podcasts while you watch a video. When the rule stops, your own mute choice comes right back.

  • Mute any app while another one runs
  • Switch rules on and off without deleting them
Mute rules in AppFader Settings, such as FaceTime muting Music, with the menu showing Music muted by rule.
Timed mute

Quiet for now. Not forever.

Mute an app for 10, 20 or 30 minutes, an hour or two, or until midnight, and it comes back on its own. Need to focus on one thing? Mute All Others silences everything except the app you pick.

  • Timed mute from 10 minutes to midnight
  • Mute All Others in one click
Podcasts muted until a set time, next to Google Chrome at 40% volume.
Shortcuts

A mute key for every app.

Give any app its own global keyboard shortcut and silence it instantly from wherever you are, without opening a menu or switching windows.

Keyboard shortcuts in AppFader Settings that mute FaceTime, Music and Safari.
Stays out of your way

A small menu bar app that just works.

AppFader starts with your Mac, follows your audio wherever it goes, and keeps everything private.

Follows your output
Speakers, headphones, AirPods and USB audio. Switch outputs and AppFader comes along.
One-click mute
Mute or unmute any app from its row, or everything except the app you choose.
Muted-app alerts
Get a notification when a muted app starts playing again after a while.
Muted at a glance
An optional dot on the menu bar icon shows when any listed app is muted.
Starts at login
Your volumes, mutes and rules are ready every time you turn on your Mac.
Private by design
Audio is mixed on your Mac in real time and never recorded, saved or sent. No accounts, no tracking.
AppFader Settings with options for starting at login, the menu bar, notifications, rating and support.
AppFader app icon

Take control of your Mac's sound.

Give every app its own volume, and let AppFader handle the muting for you.

Download on the Mac App Store

Questions or feedback? Contact support