Key Features
- 🎛 Multiple Visual Styles
Choose from 5 stunning modes: VU Meter, Analog VU, Spectrum Analyzer, Waveform Display, and Colorful Bars. - 🎧 Stereo & Mono Monitoring
Visualize left and right audio channels independently — perfect for professionals and streamers alike. - 🎨 Customizable Themes
Adjust colors, layout (vertical/horizontal), bar spacing, and style to match your setup or mood. - ⚡ Real-Time Audio Feedback
Instant response from your microphone or virtual input with precise peak detection and optional log scaling. - 🧘 Minimal Menu Bar Design
Powerful and elegant — always visible, never intrusive.
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What is SoundBar?
SoundBar is a lightweight and elegant macOS utility designed to transform your menu bar into a dynamic, real-time audio visualizer. It's the perfect companion for musicians, streamers, podcasters, video editors, or anyone who desires a simple, yet powerful, way to see and monitor their sound input directly from their desktop.
Get SoundBar Today
Enhance your Mac's audio experience with SoundBar. Available now on the Mac App Store.
Want to Visualize Your Mac’s System Audio?
By default, SoundBar visualizes audio from your Mac’s microphone — perfect for voice, ambient sound, or instruments. But what if you want to see what you’re actually hearing on your Mac — like Spotify, YouTube, Zoom, or system sounds?
You can! You just need a free virtual audio driver called BlackHole.
👉 Follow our step-by-step guide to capture your Mac’s internal audio and unleash the full power of SoundBar:
It only takes a few minutes, and no extra software beyond BlackHole is required.
Need Support?
If you have any questions, encounter a bug, or wish to suggest new features, we're here to help.
Email us at: support@macsoundbar.com