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
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
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.
- 01HeadBridge2★1 molivehobbymacOS menu bar app that provides sound controls for Bluetooth headphones.
- 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.
- 03SoundCoreBar1★8 days—hobbyMac menu-bar app that switches Bluetooth headphones between noise cancelling, transparency, and normal modes.
- 04simple-battery0★26 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that displays the battery level of connected Bluetooth headphones, with an optional percentage readout.
- 05earshot0★16 days—hand-codedhobbyMac menu bar app that shows headset battery level, settings, and automatically switches audio output when headset connects or disconnects.
- 06AudioShare0★16 days—hand-codedhobbyMenu bar app that plays a Mac's audio on multiple Bluetooth headphones or speakers at once.
- 07hush0★1 molivehobbymacOS menu-bar utility for Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones that controls noise cancelling, equalizer, playback, and battery over Bluetooth.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.