Spot what’s playing
Current audio sources are separated from apps that made a brief notification sound.
Audio FinderGet Audio FinderMade 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.
- No microphone permission
- No account
- Nothing sent off your Mac
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.
PLAYING NOW
MusicPlaying audio
Google ChromeDesign review — Linear
RECENTLY ACTIVE
SlackStopped 8 seconds ago↗
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.
Audio FinderBrowser Connector
Enabled✓
Stays on this Mac
Audible tab titles go only to Audio Finder at 127.0.0.1. No URLs, history, incognito tabs, page content, or audio.
Share audible tab titles
BrowserAuto detect⌄
Private by design
It checks the signal.
It never listens.
Output state only
Audio Finder uses a built-in macOS capability to see whether an app is using audio output.
No recording
It does not capture, save, upload, transcribe, or inspect audio content.
Local browser bridge
The optional connector talks only to the Mac app over your device’s loopback address.
Choose your download
Start with the Mac app.
Add the browser when you want it.
macOS 14.2 or later
Audio Finder for Mac
The menu-bar app that identifies which apps are using audio output.
The App Store link will activate when the listing is created.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.