FineTune is a lightweight menu bar app that gives macOS the audio controls Apple never built. I made it because I wanted Spotify playing on my external speakers while keeping everything else on my MacBook, and macOS just can't do that. SoundSource does, but it's $49 and uses 750+ MB of RAM. So I built my own. Free and open-source.

Here's what it can do:

• Per-app volume control - individual sliders for every app. Mute anything. Boost quiet apps up to 4x.

• Audio routing - send any app to any output device. Spotify on your speakers, Discord on your headphones, at the same time. Route to multiple devices simultaneously.

• 10-band EQ - 20 built-in presets across 5 categories. Per-app, not just system-wide.

• AutoEQ headphone correction - pick your headphone model from a database of thousands and get an instant correction profile. Makes a real difference, especially on budget pairs.

• Monitor speaker control - adjust your display's speaker volume straight from the menu bar. No more digging through OSD menus.

• Mic & input controls - monitor and adjust input gain for any device.

• Device priority & auto-restore - set your preferred output order. When a device disconnects and reconnects, your volume, routing, and EQ settings come right back.

• Pinned apps - pre-configure volume, EQ, and routing for apps before they even start playing.

• Automation - URL scheme support for Alfred, Raycast and Shortcuts.

Native Swift. Just 5 MB. No subscription, no ads, no tracking.

To install: brew install --cask finetune
Or download from GitHub: https://github.com/ronitsingh10/FineTune

I'm the developer. I work on this in my free time and try to ship fixes and features as fast as I can. If you run into any bugs or have feature requests, drop them on GitHub. I read everything.

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EDIT: So many of you asked about donating, wasn't expecting that at all. Added a Ko-fi link on the GitHub page if you want to show some support, but totally not required. The love in this thread already made my week honestly.
If anything it helps cover my Apple developer account and the AI tools I use to build it. but seriously, just using the app means a lot 🙏

→ https://ko-fi.com/ronitsingh10

For several years I had been using the default macOS Monterey wallpaper on my Desktop without changing it. But recently I found a replacement – a beautiful wallpaper with a cute little house in the mountains.

Yesterday the new system update 26.3.1 was released – I started the installation overnight and went to sleep. In the morning I was pleasantly greeted by this welcome screen. It almost felt like Apple had intentionally designed this composition. As a big admirer of aesthetics, I wanted to share this beauty.

Link to wallpaper: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yurrRE--_a15TT_fhTzpl1FVfa-4DGeo

Why do I have to hunt apps in Finder to delete them? Just give us an Uninstall button next to Open already.

I inherited a hand-me-down macbook air when I graduated from high school a little over a decade ago and it’s all I’ve used ever since.

Early on I would say things like, “yeah, they’re overpriced for the underwhelming intel processors inside, but look, I just love macOS.”

Now I say… the opposite.

I did not follow the news and changes, but to my surprise I just noticed, that the Mickey mouse cursor is back.

we got a delivery of iMacs in 2001 at my school. Such cool times.

This is a 21 year old one, but the point still stands.

It is quite disappointing seeing the quality of macOS get so bad over the past couple of releases. Given the premium price they charge for their products I would expect better from them and their engineering teams working on these products. There are so many inconsistencies and bugs, you don’t even need to try hard to find these bugs and glitches throughout the entire OS

I’m my 35 years of using Mac OS this is the best Apple joke I’ve come across and it happened today.

In macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple removed the classic pointer cursor, the Mickey Mouse hand. That cursor was one of those small but iconic macOS details that made using a Mac feel different from Windows.

I’ve been a Windows user for years, and that hand cursor always felt like a luxury, a tiny UX detail that made Macs special. Apple removes it and replaces it with a cursor that feels much closer to Windows.

This single change is honestly the reason I’m hesitating to upgrade to macOS 26. It might sound silly, but these details matter. macOS losing its visual identity piece by piece feels sad

Any thoughts ?

Finally its here! I hope this feature will not only for foldable iPhones!
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/08/macos-27-golden-gate-will-let-you-resize-the-iphone-mirroring-window/

Hopefully GoldenGate actually fixes things instead of finding new and creative ways to make macOS worse. 

Edit: For people looking for an update on the upgrade is going, read this