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DesktopAudio
Record what your Mac plays. Local files, no cloud.
DesktopAudio records whatever your Mac is playing and saves it as an m4a on your Mac. Podcasts, live streams, webinars, calls: if you can hear it, you can keep it. Local always: local recording, local files, no cloud, no account. It never touches your microphone and never asks for mic permission. It's also the missing half of macOS screen recording: Cmd+Shift+5 captures video but no system audio. Run DesktopAudio alongside it and you have both. $19 one-time. No subscription.
Hi Product Hunt! I built DesktopAudio because keeping the audio my Mac plays should be trivial and it isn't. Podcasts, live streams, one-time webinars: if it played through my speakers, I wanted a file I could keep, locally, without a cloud service in the middle.
Funny proof it was needed: while recording the demo video for this launch I hit the classic macOS wall, Cmd+Shift+5 records your screen with zero system audio. So the demo's sound was recorded by DesktopAudio itself, running alongside the screen recorder, and muxed in after.
The principles are simple: local always (local recording, local files, no cloud, no account), never your microphone (it doesn't even ask for the permission), and standard m4a files that are yours to do anything with. $19 once, no subscription.
For the launch: use code KEEPIT30 at checkout for 30% off.
I'd love to hear what you'd use it for, and what's missing. Ask me anything.
About DesktopAudio on Product Hunt
“Record what your Mac plays. Local files, no cloud.”
DesktopAudio was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #34 on the daily leaderboard. DesktopAudio records whatever your Mac is playing and saves it as an m4a on your Mac. Podcasts, live streams, webinars, calls: if you can hear it, you can keep it. Local always: local recording, local files, no cloud, no account. It never touches your microphone and never asks for mic permission. It's also the missing half of macOS screen recording: Cmd+Shift+5 captures video but no system audio. Run DesktopAudio alongside it and you have both. $19 one-time. No subscription.
On the analytics side, DesktopAudio competes within Menu Bar Apps and Audio — topics that collectively have 14.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DesktopAudio performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DesktopAudio?
DesktopAudio was hunted by Gorka Ludlow. 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.
For a complete overview of DesktopAudio including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Gorka Ludlow
Hi Product Hunt! I built DesktopAudio because keeping the audio my Mac plays should be trivial and it isn't. Podcasts, live streams, one-time webinars: if it played through my speakers, I wanted a file I could keep, locally, without a cloud service in the middle.
Funny proof it was needed: while recording the demo video for this launch I hit the classic macOS wall, Cmd+Shift+5 records your screen with zero system audio. So the demo's sound was recorded by DesktopAudio itself, running alongside the screen recorder, and muxed in after.
The principles are simple: local always (local recording, local files, no cloud, no account), never your microphone (it doesn't even ask for the permission), and standard m4a files that are yours to do anything with. $19 once, no subscription.
For the launch: use code KEEPIT30 at checkout for 30% off.
I'd love to hear what you'd use it for, and what's missing. Ask me anything.