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Dev tools · December 31, 2025

Hear Yourself - Free Mac audio monitor

LineIn by Rogue Amoeba was discontinued in 2017. The alternatives (Audio Hijack, SoundSource) cost $50-120 for a simple passthrough feature. Built a free menu bar app that does one thing: routes your mic to your speakers with ~1.3ms latency. https://github.com/gabrycina/hear-yourself

Hear Yourself - Free Mac audio monitor launched on December 31, 2025 with 5 votes, #2,550 of 11,628 launches that month.

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What it does

Free, low-latency audio monitor for macOS. Hear your microphone through your speakers. - gabrycina/hear-yourself

A free, low-latency audio monitor for macOS. Hear your microphone through your speakers/headphones in real-time. The popular tool LineIn was discontinued in 2017 and doesn't work on modern macOS. Paid alternatives cost $50-120. We made a free one. git clone https://github.com/gabrycina/hear-yourself.git cd hear-yourself python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt python3 app.py Usage Click the 🎙 icon in your menu bar Select your input device (microphone) Select your output device (speakers/headphones) Click "Start Monitoring" Adjust latency if needed (lower = less delay, but may cause glitches) Requirements macOS 10.13 or later Microphone access permission…from github.com

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