The system-wide equalizer for Mac.
macOS has no equalizer for all of your sound. TuningMac adds one to the menu bar: a 10-band audio equalizer, a 20-band parametric EQ and 9 presets that shape everything your Mac plays, from Spotify and YouTube to calls and games.
- One-time purchase
- No drivers
- macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later
Why your Mac needs an equalizer
Every pair of headphones and every speaker sounds different. Some are thin in the bass, some are harsh in the treble, and laptop speakers lose most of the low end. An equalizer fixes that by turning specific frequencies up or down.
The catch on macOS: the only built-in EQ lives inside the Music app and does nothing for anything else. TuningMac works system-wide, so one setting improves music, movies, podcasts, calls and games at once.
A 10-band graphic EQ and presets
Ten bands from 31 Hz to 16 kHz, each with ±12 dB, plus a preamp. Start from a preset and adjust by ear:
FlatBass BoostBass ReducerVocalTreble BoostRockClassicalGamingPodcast
Save your own presets with a name, and import or export them as files. Changes glide smoothly, so moving a slider never clicks, and built-in clip protection keeps bass boosts clean at full volume.
A parametric equalizer with AutoEQ import
When ten bands aren't enough, switch to Advanced EQ: up to 20 bands with bell, low and high shelf, low and high cut, and notch filters. Set frequency (20 Hz to 20 kHz), gain (±18 dB) and Q (0.1 to 20) by number, or drag points on the graph.
Paste a headphone correction curve from AutoEQ or an Equalizer APO file and it's applied in one click, so your headphones can sound the way they were measured to sound best.
- Low Cut28 HzQ 0.7
- Low Shelf105 Hz+4.5 dB
- Bell240 Hz−3.0 dB
- Bell3.1 kHz+2.5 dB
- Bell6.4 kHz−4.0 dB
- High Shelf10 kHz+1.5 dB
Every device keeps its own EQ
Your headphones, your speakers and your MacBook's own speakers each remember their equalizer settings. When you switch outputs or your Bluetooth headphones reconnect, TuningMac loads the right sound automatically.
- AirPods Pro→Bass Boost
- WH-1000XM5→Rock
- MacBook Speakers→Vocal
See the effect with a live spectrum
A real-time spectrum analyzer shows 32 frequency bands from 20 Hz to 20 kHz with your EQ curve drawn on top, so you can spot boomy bass or sharp highs and fix them by eye. On top of the equalizer you also get bass and treble knobs, Loudness for richer sound at low volume, balance and mono.
Set it up in a minute
- 1
Download TuningMac
Get it from tuningmac.com and drag it to Applications. It runs on macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later.
- 2
Allow audio access
macOS asks once for System Audio Recording. That's what lets the equalizer shape your sound. Nothing is recorded.
- 3
Pick a preset
Click the menu bar icon, choose a preset like Bass Boost or Vocal, then fine-tune the sliders.
Questions
Does macOS have a built-in equalizer?+
Not a system-wide one. The Music app has its own equalizer, but it only changes music played in that app. Sound from Spotify, browsers, video calls and games goes out untouched. TuningMac adds an equalizer that applies to all audio on your Mac.
Which apps does the equalizer work with?+
All of them. TuningMac shapes the sound after apps hand it to macOS, so Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube in any browser, Netflix, Zoom, FaceTime and games all go through the same EQ without any setup in those apps.
Do I need BlackHole, Soundflower or another audio driver?+
No. TuningMac uses the system audio tap Apple added in macOS 14.2 Sonoma, so there is no driver, kernel extension or virtual audio device to install. macOS asks once for System Audio Recording permission.
Is there a parametric equalizer for Mac?+
Yes. Besides the 10-band graphic EQ, TuningMac has an Advanced EQ with up to 20 parametric bands and six filter types (bell, low and high shelf, low and high cut, notch), with frequency, gain and Q for each band.
Does it work on Apple silicon and Intel Macs?+
Yes. TuningMac is a universal app that runs natively on both, on macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later.
Will an equalizer add latency or drain my battery?+
Not in any way you'll notice. The processing is a handful of filters per sample, runs natively and allocates nothing while audio is playing, so CPU and battery use stay very low.
Everything TuningMac does
Multi-output, noise control, live spectrum and more, in one menu bar app.
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