Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Audio Hijack 4
Record any audio on MacOS
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 4 launched in 2022; 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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AudioNotes▲185Easily record and share audio messages from your Mac menubar
2017 · audionot.es · 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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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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Heeey! I built a macOS copilot that has been useful to me, so I open sourced it in case others would find it useful too. It's pretty simple: - Use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of your active macOS window and start recording the microphone. - Speak your question, then press the keyboard shortcut again to send your question + screenshot off to OpenAI Vision - The Vision response is presented in-context/overlayed over the active window, and spoken to you as audio. - The app keeps running in the background, only taking a screenshot/listening when activated by keyboard…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Oversight▲141Get notified when an app accesses your Mac's camera or mic
2019 · objective-see.org · its alternatives →
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Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your keyboard while you type!
2021 · unclack.app · 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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A simple, professional audio recorder
2015 · openplanetsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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BetterRecorder▲113Record screen, video and audio on Mac
2021 · expireddomains.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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Effortless system audio and microphone recording
2025 · audio.macrecorder.app · its alternatives →
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Record, transcribe, curate audio + voice memos iPhone/iPad
2024 · banginaudiorecorder.com · its alternatives →
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Speechmark▲101Record, transcribe, and summarize meetings entirely on your Mac — decisions, action items, speaker-attributed transcripts. No bot, no account, pay once.
Sep 2026 · speechmark.co · its alternatives →
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Mutify▲70Use a shortcut on any Mac device to mute your microphone
2019 · mutify.app · its alternatives →
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