AudioCentral

What makes it different

macOS has a single volume slider: you cannot balance a call against your music, send each app to a different device, or tune speakers and headphones differently. After years of juggling volume all day, Francisco Maldonado built AudioCentral to fix both — a menu-bar app from LoudLab that gives every app and every device its own controls.

It offers per-app volume, mute, balance, boost, equalization and speech isolation, plus per-device volume, mute, equalization, boost and spatial profiles. The equalizers are precise — graphic or parametric, 10-band, with scroll-controlled Q factor and preset recall — and spectral calibration profiles and a binaural converter cover critical listening on headphones.

Everything runs natively on macOS: no kernel extensions, no reboots, no audio-stack surgery. It is designed for audiophiles, audio engineers, producers, musicians, DJs, composers, sound designers and streamers — a set-and-forget way to control target curves and modes for each app and device.