Lives in your menu bar.
Two meters show what your microphone hears and what apps receive. Play a sound and watch the first one move while the second stays quiet.
As soon as you start speaking, you'll see your voice being sent through the apps.
Hush for Mac
Your voice.
Not your music.
A clean microphone for Discord, Zoom, Meet and OBS. Hush processes your voice through Apple's filter, so people hear you and not what your Mac is playing.
Free and open source · macOS 14 or later
How Hush cleans your microphone
- When your Mac plays music, the microphone picks up the sound from your speakers.
- Then, you start talking. The mic can't tell your voice from the song.
- Without Hush, your audience hears both. Your playlist, the video, the game.
- Hush turns on. Apple's voice processing removes everything your Mac plays.
- Only your voice gets through. About 43 dB less music.
Music from your speakers
Your voice
What your audience hears
Listen
Flip the switch. Hear the music go.
Press play, then turn Hush on and off while it plays.
What your audience hears
Hush
Off: they hear your music too (no filtering)
On: they only hear you (filtering enabled)
Simulation based on measurements of the real app.Music: “Be Chillin” by Alexander Nakarada
How it works
Quiet work, right in your menu bar.
FaceTime's voice processing.
The same Apple processing that keeps FaceTime calls clean removes all of your Mac's sound from the mic.
Works with every app.
Hush adds a virtual microphone called “Hush Microphone”. Pick it in any app that lets you choose an input.
- Discord
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- OBS
- Telegram
Only on when you talk to someone.
In automatic mode, Hush runs only while an app listens to Hush Microphone, so your speakers sound normal while enhancing your privacy.
Your voice stays even.
Hush adjusts your level only while you speak, so soft and loud voices come out the same and background noise never gets boosted.
−43dB
of speaker music removed from your mic
~80ms
of total delay, unnoticeable in conversation
0
recordings. Audio is processed on-device in realtime.
Full measurement details available on GitHub.
Setup
Ready in about a minute.
Drag Hush into Applications and open it. Follow the steps and you're ready to go!
Questions.
macOS won't open Hush.
Hush isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS warns you on first launch. To open it:
- macOS 15 or later: try to open Hush once, then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- macOS 14: Control-click Hush in Applications, choose Open, then Open again.
- From Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hush.appDoes Hush record me?
No. Audio is processed live, in memory. The only recording is the before/after test in the welcome screens, kept in a local temporary file.
Is there a delay?
About 80 ms in total: Apple's processing adds about 65 ms, Hush about 15 ms. People on the other end don't notice it in conversation.
Why does my music get a bit quieter?
macOS lowers other audio whenever voice processing runs. Hush asks for the smallest reduction Apple allows, about 8 dB instead of the default 30 dB. In automatic mode this only happens during calls.
Headphones, AirPods?
They work. Hush follows output changes on its own.
How do I uninstall it?
In Hush, open Settings and click Uninstall Virtual Microphone, then move Hush to the Trash.