MicSlider Window Help wifi battery_full_alt 2:14 PM

macOS hides your mic. This puts it back.

A microphone volume slider and input switcher that live next to your clock - where the speaker slider has been all along.

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Open source · No account · Never records audio · 0 bytes of network traffic
north_east That menu is real - drag the slider

Try turning your mic down. Both ways.

Both panels below are real. Your own taps get counted.

System Settings
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MicSlider
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Do it on both panels and compare your own numbers.
The old way
settings
System Settings
tap to start
Four taps before the slider even works.
With MicSlider
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tap the mic north_east
Your desktop. Nothing is open.
One tap, and the slider is right there.

Small app, three jobs.

Under a megabyte, no preferences window, nothing to configure.

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Set the level live

Drag and your input gain changes instantly. No apply button, no window taking over your screen mid‑call.

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Switch in one click

Built‑in mic, AirPods, iPhone, USB interfaces - all in one list. The menu stays open, so you can set the new device’s level right away.

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Never records you

It reads and sets volume, nothing else - so macOS never even asks for microphone permission. No tracking, no network.

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Devices appear as you plug them in. Connect AirPods with the menu open and they show up on their own. And when a mic’s gain is firmware‑managed - AirPods, the iPhone mic - MicSlider tells you, instead of showing a slider that would do nothing.

Build it in a minute.

MicSlider ships as source, so it opens with no Gatekeeper warnings - no paid Apple Developer account in the loop, no cost to you.

1
Get the Command Line Tools
Once, if you don’t have them. Full Xcode is not required.
2
Clone and run build.sh
Compiles with swiftc into a small .app bundle.
3
Open it, then Open at Login
It offers to move itself to /Applications on first launch. Accept, then flip on Open at Login from the menu.
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$ xcode-select --install
$ git clone https://github.com/darinmujeeb/micslider.git
$ cd micslider && ./build.sh
$ open build/MicSlider.app
Requires
macOS 11 or later
Runs on
Apple silicon & Intel
Size
Under 1 MB
License
MIT