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Auto Ducking
Lower Mac audio when your mic is active
Auto Ducking is a macOS menu bar app that lowers background audio when your microphone becomes active, then restores your previous volume when mic use ends. Use it for calls, dictation, recording, podcasts, and AI voice chats. Set ducking level, fade, restore delay, app rules, presets, and hotkeys. It never records, transcribes, or uploads audio. Promotion code redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?code=PH50OFF&ctx=offercodes&id=6773523949
Hey Product Hunt — I’m Chris, the maker of Auto Ducking.
I built this because I kept running into the same small but annoying Mac workflow problem: I would be listening to music, a video, or ambient audio, then start dictating, recording, joining a call, or talking to an AI voice tool — and suddenly I had to manually lower the volume.
Auto Ducking is a tiny macOS menu bar app that automatically lowers background audio when your microphone becomes active, then restores the previous volume when mic use ends.
It supports ducking level, fade controls, restore delay, app trigger rules, presets, output device memory, manual ducking, and hotkeys.
It does not record, transcribe, or upload microphone audio. It only detects microphone activity and adjusts system output volume locally.
I’d really appreciate feedback from Mac users, podcasters, remote workers, people using voice dictation, and anyone talking to AI voice tools. What workflow should I optimize next?
About Auto Ducking on Product Hunt
“Lower Mac audio when your mic is active”
Auto Ducking was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #68 on the daily leaderboard. Auto Ducking is a macOS menu bar app that lowers background audio when your microphone becomes active, then restores your previous volume when mic use ends. Use it for calls, dictation, recording, podcasts, and AI voice chats. Set ducking level, fade, restore delay, app rules, presets, and hotkeys. It never records, transcribes, or uploads audio. Promotion code redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?code=PH50OFF&ctx=offercodes&id=6773523949
On the analytics side, Auto Ducking competes within Productivity, Menu Bar Apps and Audio — topics that collectively have 670k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Auto Ducking performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Auto Ducking?
Auto Ducking was hunted by Marcx Studio. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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