Soundshine Is Here
Last week I said I was going to ship an app every Tuesday. Soundshine is the first one out the door.
It is a menu bar app for macOS that routes your system audio — music, videos, game sounds, whatever is playing — to a virtual microphone input. That means you can pipe audio into Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, FaceTime, OBS, Audacity, or anything else that accepts a mic, without screen sharing and without any extra hardware.
How it works
You click the toggle in the menu bar. That is it. All system audio gets routed to a virtual mic input that any app can pick up. You keep hearing everything through your speakers like normal. Zero latency.
There is an independent volume control for the passthrough, so you can turn down your local playback without affecting what the other end hears. And there is a real-time level meter in the menu bar so you can confirm audio is flowing.
Why I built it
I needed to share audio in a Zoom call without screen sharing my entire desktop. Every existing solution I found was either complicated to set up, expensive, or both. Soundshine does one thing and does it with a single click.
Details
- Works on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
- Requires macOS 26 Tahoe
- 48 kHz, 32-bit float stereo through a lightweight CoreAudio virtual driver
- About 5 MB
- Full VoiceOver and keyboard accessibility
The app is free to try with all features available. The trial adds a periodic audio watermark on the routed feed. A one-time purchase of $7.99 removes it permanently, and the license transfers across your Macs.
Grab it at soundshine.app.