Made for your Mac’s menu bar

Find the sound.Skip the hunt.

See which app—or browser tab—is playing audio, then jump straight to it. Audio Finder checks output state without recording a thing.

Get the Mac app Chrome connector

No microphone permission
No account
Nothing sent off your Mac

Audio Finder menu showing Google Chrome and Music playing audio, audible browser tabs, and a recently played podcast

One click. Exact source.

Your Mac knows what’s playing. Now you do too.

Audio Finder sits quietly in the menu bar until sound is hard to place. Open it to see what is playing now and what stopped moments ago.

The real Audio Finder menu listing active apps, browser tabs, and a recently active source — Audio Finder’s menu with example app and tab activity.

Spot what’s playing

Current audio sources are separated from apps that made a brief notification sound.

Jump straight there

Select a source and Audio Finder brings that app—or connected browser tab—to the front.

Get back to work

No mixer to manage and no recording timeline to inspect. Find it, switch to it, done.

Optional browser connector

From “Chrome” to the tab that’s actually making noise.

Enable the companion extension to identify audible Chrome and Brave tabs. It reads only the title and identifiers of non-incognito tabs marked as audible, then sends them to Audio Finder over 127.0.0.1.

View in the Chrome Web Store

The browser extension’s actual settings page, with its privacy disclosure, sharing checkbox, browser selector, and Save and Test buttons — The extension’s settings. Sharing stays off until you enable it.

Private by design

It checks the signal.
It never listens.

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Output state only

Audio Finder uses a built-in macOS capability to see whether an app is using audio output.

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No recording

It does not capture, save, upload, transcribe, or inspect audio content.

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Local browser bridge

The optional connector talks only to the Mac app over your device’s loopback address.

Read the full privacy policy

Choose your download

Start with the Mac app.
Add the browser when you want it.

Apple silicon + Intel

Audio Finder for Mac

The signed, notarized menu-bar app for macOS 14.2 or later.

Download Audio Finder 1.0.1 One universal download for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Chrome + Brave

Browser Connector

Optional tab-level detail for browsers marked as audible by Chrome or Brave.

Get the browser connector Requires the Audio Finder Mac app.

Open source. Make it yours.

The Mac app and browser extension are available on GitHub. Explore the code, build them yourself, or contribute.

View source on GitHub