Life & fun · September 13, 2026
What Just Pinged Me?
A macOS menu bar app that tells you which app, web page, or notification just made a sound — and lets you play it back.
What Just Pinged Me? launched on September 13, 2026 with 25 votes, #764 of 8,095 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
What Just Pinged Me? is a macOS menu bar app that identifies which application, webpage, or notification produced a sound on your computer and allows you to replay it. When an unexpected noise interrupts your work, the app reveals what caused it—providing specific details like the exact browser tab or helper process involved, rather than just the app name. It distinguishes between alert sounds and notification center pings, and can even identify sounds from scripts and command-line tools.
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From the sources
Something on your Mac made a noise. This tells you what it was. You are working, something chimes, and there is no window, no badge, no clue. By the time you look up, whatever made the sound has moved on. What Just Pinged Me? is already listening, so it can answer the question after the fact. Not just "Safari" — the title and address of the tab that actually played the sound. The app that made the noise, even when it plays through a helper process you have never heard of. Alert sounds and Notification Center pings, told apart from everything else. Scripts and command-line tools, right down to the sound file they were told to play. Every sound is recorded as you hear it, so you can listen…from whatjustpingedme.com
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