Hi Product Hunt! I'm Chris, the maker of SoundPipe.
I built this because routing audio on a Mac always felt harder than it should be. I just wanted to listen to my mac, my iPad and my linux machine at the same time through my AirPods. This just isn't possible natively.
macOS still has no built-in way to send one app's sound into another: no record button for what your Mac is playing, no way to pipe app audio into a call. The classic answers are BlackHole, which is free but leaves you hand-wiring multi-output devices in Audio MIDI Setup, or Loopback, which is wonderful but costs $99.
SoundPipe is my attempt at the middle: virtual audio devices with a UI where every route is a visible wire, live meters on every channel, per-channel volume, and monitoring built in. The driver installs with one click (no terminal, no kernel extensions) and the whole path runs under 15 ms of latency at any sample rate your devices support.
Pricing is super simple: $10 once, use it on up to 3 Macs, no subscription, no account. The trial is the full app in 20-minute sessions that you can restart forever, so you can be sure it works with your setup before paying.
I'd genuinely love feedback, especially on use cases I haven't covered: streaming setups, DAW workflows, weird hardware. I'll be here all day answering questions.
PS: for launch day (+ day after) it's $7 instead of $10 with the code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout.
Been wanting proper per-app audio control on the Mac for years, the one system slider for everything drives me up a wall. Does SoundPipe let me route a single app's output on its own, like sending Kontakt to one interface while everything else stays on my headphones? I run virtual instruments and the routing is the part macOS makes weirdly hard.
Curious how this handles latency when routing mic input live into something like a Zoom call? That kind of sync issue would be a dealbreaker for me.
The visual routing approach makes this much easier to understand than traditional audio setup.
Does this work with Discord and OBS at the same time, or do I have to pick one app to receive the routed audio?
The 20-minute full-app trial you can restart forever is a good honesty signal, definitely better than the usual crippled-feature demo. Because it lets people prove it works on their exact setup before paying. Congrats on the launch!
Coming from a music background, I'd love to pipe clean app audio (a backing track or score playback) straight into a video call for remote lessons, instead of it going through the mic. Is that a solid use case for SoundPipe? The one-click driver with no kext is a big plus.
Finally a clean way to route my mic into OBS without the messy workarounds. Set it up in under a minute and it just works.
The visible-wire routing with live meters on every channel is what would pull me off BlackHole — hand-wiring multi-output devices in Audio MIDI Setup, you can never actually see what's flowing. I'd use this mostly to record calls and screen captures: do the routes I set up persist across reboots and show back up as a stable input in OBS or Zoom on next launch, or is it a rewire each session?
I love the visual wire concept reminds me of Reason or old-school analog patches, qq does the app support multi-channel audio output (like 5.1 or 7.1 mapping) ? congrats to ship @chrisbattarbee
About SoundPipe on Product Hunt
“SoundPipe is a mixing board for your Mac”
SoundPipe launched on Product Hunt on July 11th, 2026 and earned 127 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices on your Mac so you can send audio from any app, or your microphone, to any other app.
SoundPipe was featured in Productivity (655.8k followers), Apple (15.5k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 154.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted SoundPipe?
SoundPipe was hunted by Chris Battarbee. 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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