SoundsMac plays custom sounds for 18 system events — lid open/close, charger, keyboard clicks, screenshots, empty trash, and more. Choose from 6 built-in themes or build your own.
macOS 10.15 Catalina or later · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
🍎 Classic Mac
Triggered: 12 times
18 system events
SoundsMac is a lightweight menu bar app — no Dock icon, no bloat. Just sounds, exactly when you want them.
8-bit, Soft, Sci-Fi, Classic Mac, Traditional, and Piano. Switch themes and all 18 events update instantly with a live preview.
Create, rename, and delete your own named themes. Load any .mp3, .wav, .aiff, or .m4a for any event.
Independent volume slider for each event. Keyboard clicks can be whisper-quiet while lid sounds are loud and satisfying.
Tap your MacBook and hear a sound. Three sensitivity presets (Low / Medium / High) via the microphone tap.
Plays a sound when your lid crosses a custom angle threshold (10–170°). Uses Apple's hardware sensor — Apple Silicon only.
Vintage mechanical keyboard sounds — 3 auto-selected variants for regular keys, Space, and Return. Requires Accessibility permission.
See how many times each event has fired since launch. Every event shows a live badge in the sidebar.
Toggle the dashboard theme with a single click. Your preference is saved automatically.
No network requests, no analytics, no telemetry. Settings stay on your Mac in ~/Library/Preferences.
Every theme ships 120 synthesized WAV files — one for each of the 20 events × 6 themes. Switching themes plays a live preview.
Chiptune square-wave arpeggios, arcade blips, and retro beeps. Knock = arcade punch.
Pure sine tones with gentle envelopes. Relaxed and unobtrusive — barely there, always satisfying.
Exponential frequency sweeps and electric crackles. Knock = energy shield hit.
Warm harmonic tones inspired by System 7 and classic Mac OS bell sounds. Knock = vintage thwack.
Organic sounds — creaking door, wood knock, typewriter keys. Knock = cartoon pain scream.
Synthesized piano with hammer attack and harmonic string decay. Knock = bass chord cluster.
Universal binary — native performance on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
Native arm64 — M1 through M4+. Lid angle sensor available.
Native x86_64 — Core i5/i7/i9. All events except Lid at Angle.
Required for knock detection only. Requested at first use.
Required for keyboard click sounds. Optional — all other events work without it.
SoundsMac makes zero network requests. No analytics. No telemetry. No crash reporting to any server. Your settings live in ~/Library/Preferences/ and your custom sounds in ~/Library/Application Support/SoundsMac/ — both on your Mac, nowhere else.
Yes. SoundsMac lives in the menu bar (🔊) and has no Dock icon. It runs as a lightweight background process and uses minimal CPU — events are interrupt-driven, not polled (except a handful that use efficient 250ms polling).
No. SoundsMac is written in native Swift using IOKit, AVFoundation, and CoreGraphics — the same frameworks macOS uses internally. Most events are hardware-interrupt-driven. The idle CPU usage is essentially zero.
Knock detection uses an AVAudioEngine microphone tap. On Apple Silicon this is hardware-accelerated and uses negligible power. On Intel the impact is minimal. You can disable the event in the dashboard at any time.
Yes. Any event can be overridden with your own .mp3, .wav, .aiff, or .m4a file using the Load button in the dashboard. You can also create unlimited custom themes mixing your own files across all events.
Yes. The .dmg ships a universal binary (fat binary with both arm64 and x86_64 slices). It runs natively on both chip families. The only Apple Silicon-exclusive feature is Lid at Angle (requires the hardware lid angle sensor).
Only once — during license activation, the installer makes a single request to verify your license key. After that, the app runs fully offline with zero network requests. No telemetry, no analytics, no background connections.
SoundsMac is indie software signed ad-hoc (no Apple notarization fee). macOS Gatekeeper blocks unnotarized apps downloaded from the internet — this is normal.
macOS 15 Sequoia: Open the DMG, double-click the installer, click Done on the warning. Then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click "Open Anyway". Authenticate and click Open.
macOS 13–14: Right-click the installer → Open → click Open. You only need to do this once.
No. SoundsMac is a one-time payment of $5. You pay once and own it forever — no monthly fees, no renewals, no surprises.
No. All future updates are included with your license at no extra cost. When a new version is released, download the new .dmg from this page and activate it with your existing license key — no need to pay again.
Licensed users receive an email notification whenever a new version is released. Your email is registered at the time of purchase — no extra sign-up needed.
All purchases are final and non-refundable. Given the nature of digital software, once a download has been initiated no refunds will be issued. Please verify compatibility with your Mac before purchasing.
Version 1.0.0 — 19 events · 6 themes · Universal binary
Requires macOS 10.15 Catalina or later · v1.0.0 · April 8, 2026
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