Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Audio Hijack 3
Record any audio on your Mac.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Audio Hijack 3 launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Recordia▲200Simple audio recorder that lives in your macOS menu bar
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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HyNote for Mac▲368Free local transcription that is 100% Private
Aug 2026 · hynote.ai · its alternatives →
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Tella for Mac▲470Record incredible videos, direct from your dock
2023 · tella.com · its alternatives →
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Bloop▲132Turn any Mac audio into a visual you can actually export
Aug 2026 · bloooooop.com · its alternatives →
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AudioNotes▲185Easily record and share audio messages from your Mac menubar
2017 · audionot.es · its alternatives →
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A simple, professional audio recorder
2015 · openplanetsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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Airfoil 5▲139Stream any audio from your Mac all around your network
2016 · rogueamoeba.com · its alternatives →
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BetterRecorder▲113Record screen, video and audio on Mac
2021 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Right, here's the thing: If you are using AirPods(or any Bluetooth headphones with a mic in fact) on Mac and something activates the mic(i.e. you Shazam a song), the sound will be interrupted momentarily and will return in very low quality. This is happening because Bluetooth can't handle both way high quality streaming and the bandwidth is decreased to make it work. It's a known issue and here's what Apple recommends to fix it: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/102217 Most of the time(unless you are on a Mac Mini/Studio/Pro), you have much higher quality…
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless system audio and microphone recording
2025 · audio.macrecorder.app · its alternatives →
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RM2000 Tape Recorder makes it stupid simple to grab audio samples and organize them: just record the sample, give it a title (and maybe some tags), and it is saved neatly into a directory of your choosing. I'm a huge datahoarder and have always appreciated tools / services like PureRef and Are.na which help me make sense of everything I collect. Those services concern themselves with images and video - I wondered, why can't the same be done with music and audiofiles? I actually got the inspiration for the filenaming scheme from the Emacs Denote package - every sample is saved in the…
2025 · rm2000.app · its alternatives →
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The best narrative journalism spoken by talented narrators
2020 · apple.news · its alternatives →
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Record, transcribe, curate audio + voice memos iPhone/iPad
2024 · banginaudiorecorder.com · its alternatives →
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yapyap▲148Own your voice again. Local-first voice & meeting recorder.
Aug 2026 · yap-yap.app · its alternatives →
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