CLUSTER BAR-BLUETOOTH-HEADPHONES · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-15

Mac Bluetooth audio menu bar apps

This cluster consists of macOS menu bar utilities for controlling Bluetooth headphones and speakers, covering multi-device audio playback, sound controls, and noise-cancelling/transparency switching. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction is led by HeadBridge with 2 stars, ahead of simple-nothing-macos and SoundCoreBar with 1 star each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 4
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01HeadBridge2★1 molivehobbymacOS menu bar app that provides sound controls for Bluetooth headphones.
  2. 02simple-nothing-macos1★7 days—hobbymacOS app that controls Nothing and CMF headphones from the window or menu bar, offering noise control, equalizer, spatial audio, and battery status.
  3. 03SoundCoreBar1★8 days—hobbyMac menu-bar app that switches Bluetooth headphones between noise cancelling, transparency, and normal modes.
  4. 04simple-battery0★26 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that displays the battery level of connected Bluetooth headphones, with an optional percentage readout.
  5. 05earshot0★16 days—hand-codedhobbyMac menu bar app that shows headset battery level, settings, and automatically switches audio output when headset connects or disconnects.
  6. 06AudioShare0★16 days—hand-codedhobbyMenu bar app that plays a Mac's audio on multiple Bluetooth headphones or speakers at once.
  7. 07hush0★1 molivehobbymacOS menu-bar utility for Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones that controls noise cancelling, equalizer, playback, and battery over Bluetooth.