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$7.99
Lifetime license for 1 Mac.
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Independent volume, mute, routing, and sound controls for every Mac app.
The download is open to everyone. No account needed. Submix notes

Made for the daily case
7 days to try every feature. Requires macOS 14.2 or later.
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1 Mac
$7.99
Lifetime license for 1 Mac.
2 Macs
$12.99
Lifetime license for 2 Macs.
3 Macs
$17.99
Lifetime license for 3 Macs.
Submix offers a 7 day full feature trial, no account required.
No, Submix is a one time purchase with a lifetime license. There is no recurring charge.
A single Submix license covers 1 to 3 Macs, depending on the plan you choose at checkout.
Submix requires macOS 14.2 or later.
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Submix notes
Background Music failing to launch after a macOS update, sliders that do nothing, or sound gone quiet after uninstalling: which failures have fixes, which are the design, and what to run instead, with every claim attributed to the project's own README and issue tracker.
macOS has no per app volume slider, but the answer does not end there. The app's own controls, Safari's tab mute and the alert slider cover some cases, and a per app mixer covers the rest: one volume row per app, so you can lower or mute any of them alone.
Crackling, pops and dropouts after a Mac update are a documented chapter of macOS 26's launch. Here is the dated record from Apple's support communities and audio vendors, the workarounds that circulated, which ones make mechanical sense, and what a per app mixer honestly cannot fix.