System-wide equaliser with hearing compensation
Coming SoonRequires macOS Sonoma 14.2 or later
A 10-band equaliser that processes every app on your Mac in real time. Pick a preset, drag the curve, or paste your audiogram and let EQer calculate the right listening curve for your hearing.
Music, video calls, podcasts, games—everything sounds the way you want it to, with smooth processing you won’t notice until you turn it off.
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Menu BarEar icon with one-click toggle, no dock icon
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System-WideEvery app gets its own real-time audio processing tap
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AudiogramAutomatically adjust to offset dips in your hearing
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Presets & Custom22 presets or drag points to sculpt your own curve
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Per-App ControlOverride settings for individual apps
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CompressorDynamic range compression evens quiet and loud sounds
Equaliser
- Interactive 10-band graphic equaliser (31 Hz–16 kHz)
- 22 built-in presets for all types of music and tastes
- Drag-to-adjust chart for custom curves
- 0.5 dB snap grid for precise adjustments
- ±12 dB gain range with automatic clipping prevention
Audiogram
- Enter hearing thresholds for 8 standard freqs (250 Hz–8 kHz)
- Copy and paste audiogram data as TSV, CSV, or XML
- More precise data can be copied from iOS Health app export.xml
- Gains calculated using the audiology-grade processing
- Adjustable compensation strength: full, medium, or low
- Visual EQ curve shows exactly how your audio will be adjusted
Per-App Control
- See every app currently producing audio
- Toggle EQ and compression on or off per app
- Assign a different EQ curve to individual apps
- Overrides persist even when the app isn’t running
- Visual indicators show which apps have custom settings
- Right-click to reset any app back to global defaults
Output Devices
- Bypass EQ for specific output devices
- Automatically adapts when you switch audio output
- Tracks bypassed devices across connect/disconnect cycles
Dynamic Range Compression
- Two-way compressor: boosts quiet and reduces loud
- Brickwall limiter at -1 dBFS prevents digital clipping
- Enable globally or per-app
Menu Bar
- Menubar-only app—no dock icon, no window clutter
- Ear icon fills when processing is active, outlines when bypassed
- One click to toggle processing on or off
- Quick access to settings for the frontmost audio app
- Launch at Login
Real-Time Processing
- Individual audio taps for every application producing sound
- Lock-free, allocation-free audio callback for glitch-free playback
- Smart process filtering excludes system daemons and services
- Identifies audio from browser tabs and sub-processes
Optimised
- Less than 1 MB app file size
- Less than 30 MB base memory footprint
How It Compares
Here’s how this app compares to other similar apps.
| EQer | SoundSource | eqMac | |
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| Native Mac app | ✓ | ✓ | Hybrid |
| Menu bar app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 10-band EQ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audiogram compensation | ✓ | – | – |
| Dynamic range compressor | ✓ | – | – |
| Per-app EQ curves | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Device bypass rules | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| App Store | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| RAM usage | 30 MB | 300 MB | 40 MB |
| App size | < 1 MB | 85 MB | 75 MB |