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SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices on your Mac so you can send audio from any app, or your microphone, to any other app.
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What is SoundPipe?
SoundPipe is a digital product or tool described as: SoundPipe is a mixing board for your Mac
Where did SoundPipe originate?
Data for SoundPipe was aggregated directly from the Product Hunt community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was SoundPipe publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for SoundPipe within our tracked developer communities was recorded on July 11, 2026.
How popular is SoundPipe?
SoundPipe has achieved measurable traction, logging over 134 traction score and facilitating 30 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define SoundPipe?
Based on metadata extraction, SoundPipe is categorized under topics such as: Productivity, Apple, Audio.
What are some commercial alternatives to SoundPipe?
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How does the creator describe SoundPipe?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices on your Mac so you can send audio from any app, or your microphone, to any other app."
Community Voice & Feedback
Looks great! Can this route audio from other devices (iPad, Android, etc.) to macOS now?
How does this handle latency in real time, like when you are routing a mic for a live stream or podcast recording?
The menu bar icon is a really nice touch, super minimal and fits right in with macOS. Love how lightweight it feels compared to other audio routing tools I've tried.
As a producer this solves a real headache — getting a standalone synth or an iPad music app straight into Ableton without a hardware loopback cable. Quick q: can I route a DAW's master back into an input channel on the same machine for internal resampling, or does feeding an app into itself get weird? The sub-15ms latency + per-channel meters look perfect for that.
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
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.
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.
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