FreeMic for Mac
One-click microphone input switching with Bluetooth headset and built-in mic support.
By dy1945. Free and open source, MIT licence.
FreeMic at a glance
- Version
- 0.0.7
- Released
- 9 October 2026
- Download size
- 1.4 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Audio and Music
- Developer
- dy1945
- GitHub stars
- 7
About FreeMic
清新风格的 macOS 菜单栏小工具:显示蓝牙耳机与输入设备,一键切换麦克风输入,解决 MacOS 低码率输出问题;A clean, fresh-styled macOS menu bar utility: see your current Bluetooth headphones and every input device, and switch the microphone input in one click (including back to the built-in mic).
Screenshots
How to install FreeMic on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for FreeMic and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.0.7 from dy1945's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to FreeMic show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: FreeMic-v0.0.7.zip (1.4 MB).
What is new in FreeMic 0.0.7
## 更新内容 / What's new - 🚦 实时显示 A2DP 高音质 / HFP 通话模式,菜单栏图标分别显示绿色 / 琥珀色。 Live A2DP / HFP status in the panel and menu bar, with green / amber indicators. - 🔍 尝试识别占用蓝牙麦克风的应用,显示占用提示及上次占用记录;区分麦克风占用与仅输出进入通话音质的情况。 Identify apps using the Bluetooth mic, retain the last-use note, and distinguish mic activity from output-only call-quality routing. - 🔔 新增音质降级通知开关,默认开启,首次实际触发时请求通知权限。 Optional degradation notifications, enabled by default, with permission requested on the first event. - 🛠 增强 `--list` 诊断,新增 `--watch` 持续监听设备占用变化。 Expanded `--list` diagnostics and a new `--watch` mode. - 🥚 包含 v0.0.6 调整:`Control + K` 开灯固定为最低亮度约 6.25%。 Includes the v0.0.6 keyboard-light change: toggling on always starts at approximately 6.25% brightness. 默认输入锁定无法阻止应用直接指定蓝牙麦克风;占用提示可帮助定位并调整该应用的麦克风设置。 The default-input lock cannot block apps that open the Bluetooth mic directly; attribution helps locate the app and adjust its mic setting. ## 下载 / Download `FreeMic-v0.0.7.zip` 包含 Apple Silicon + Intel 通用版 `FreeMic.app`,已通过双架构 release 构建与 ad-hoc 签名校验;未进行本次实机音频回归测试。 Universal Apple Silicon + Intel app, with both release builds and ad-hoc signature verification passed. Live audio regression testing was not performed for this release. 应用采用 ad-hoc 签名,未进行 Apple 公证。首次打开方式见仓库 README。 The app is ad-hoc signed and not notarized by Apple. See the repository README for first-launch instructions.
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