Mic Stop

Mic Stop is a tiny menu bar utility for macOS that lets you mute or unmute your microphone with a global hotkey.

It stays out of the way, lives in the menu bar, and keeps your chosen mute state even if you switch from your MacBook mic to a Bluetooth headset or another input device.

What It Does

• toggles your microphone from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut
• supports both Toggle and Hold to Talk hotkey modes
• lets you switch hotkey modes from Settings or by double-pressing the hotkey
• runs quietly in the menu bar without a Dock icon
• remembers your preferred hotkey
• remembers your preferred hotkey mode and mute baseline across launches
• follows microphone changes automatically
• can launch when you log in

Hotkey Modes

• Toggle: one press flips between muted and live.
• Hold to Talk: Mic Stop keeps a safe muted baseline, temporarily unmutes while the hotkey is held, and remutes on release.

When you are in Hold to Talk, switching microphones keeps the muted baseline and re-applies the temporary live state if the key is still held.

Requirements

• macOS Sequoia or newer

Settings

The settings window includes:

• a shortcut recorder for changing the global hotkey
• a segmented control for choosing Toggle or Hold to Talk
• a launch-at-login switch
• live status cards for the current microphone, desired state, and applied state

Running the App

If you want the proper macOS app experience, open MicStop.xcodeproj in Xcode and run the MicStop scheme.

If Xcode asks for signing, select your own Apple development team in the project settings.

Running from Swift Package Manager

swift run --disable-sandbox MicStopApp

Running Tests

swift test --disable-sandbox