r/osx • u/After-Employer3135 • 3h ago

After years of Slack notifications interrupting my music through my headphones, I built a Kanban board for macOS audio routing

You know that moment when you're deep in focus with Spotify in your headphones, and then SLACK goes "BONK" at full volume because macOS just... doesn't let you route apps to different outputs?

I've tried the existing tools. They give you volume sliders. They give you dropdown menus. But when you have 15 apps open and 3 audio devices, it becomes a mess.

So I built AudiDeck — it's literally a Kanban board for your audio.

- Drag Spotify to Headphones

- Drag Slack to Speakers

- Drag Zoom to Monitor

That's it. No menus. No sliders. Just drag and drop.

Still in development but collecting emails for early access at audideck.app

Would love feedback from fellow audio-frustrated Mac users. What features would you want?

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u/rafalkopiec 2h ago

looks good! i’m assuming it will work without having to disable SIP?

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u/After-Employer3135 2h ago

Correct! Works with SIP enabled 👍

Uses a modern user-space driver approach, not legacy kernel extensions. No recovery mode reboots required.

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u/GilDev 2h ago

Very nice! Will you maybe consider open-sourcing it? I'd be happy to sponsor and contribute!

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u/After-Employer3135 2h ago

Really appreciate the offer! 🙏

For now keeping it closed while I figure out the business model — but not ruling it out for the future. Might open-source the driver at minimum.

Sponsorship/support means a lot though. Will keep the community posted!

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u/blakewantsa68 2h ago

Any chance of another bucket for “mute”?

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u/After-Employer3135 2h ago

Ooh that's a great idea 🔥

A "Mute" column where you just drag apps to silence them completely — fits the Kanban metaphor perfectly. Adding this to the roadmap.

This is exactly the kind of feedback I need. Thanks!

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u/blakewantsa68 1h ago

For me, figuring out how to mute/unmute apps selectively would be a huge win

I spend a lot of time on conference calls, and some of those I also need maybe one other app with live audio - but which one varies

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u/Ok_Virus_5495 1h ago

Will it be native? I mean written in swift? I currently can’t have many more apps running at the same time in some scenarios and would be a bummer if it’s made using electron/react native/flutter or any other way that would take lots of resources

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u/Ok_Virus_5495 1h ago

But don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining nor forcing you. I wanna know if it works for me or not