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I built 3 macOS menu bar apps in my spare time — here's what I learned

DEV Community·Sushanth·6 months ago
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I've been a Mac user for years and kept running into

the same small frustrations daily. Instead of waiting

for Apple to fix them, I built 3 tiny apps myself.

Here's what I built and why.

🔊 Sound Warden — Per-app audio routing

Every time I jumped between Spotify, Zoom, and YouTube

I had to manually switch audio outputs. It drove me crazy.

Sound Warden lives in your menu bar and automatically

routes each app to the audio device you want. Set it

once, forget it forever.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sound-warden/id6762252431

✕ Clean Quit — Quit all apps in one click

End of the day. 15 apps open. Closing them one by one.

Clean Quit adds a single menu bar button that quits

everything instantly.…

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