Mute for Mac
Automatically enable Do Not Disturb when your microphone or camera is in use.
By kurama. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Mute at a glance
- Version
- 2.0.2
- Released
- 9 August 2026
- Download size
- 1.5 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Menu Bar and Notch
- Developer
- kurama
- GitHub stars
- 3
About Mute
A macOS menu bar app that automatically activates Do Not Disturb when your microphone or camera is in use.
Screenshots

How to install Mute on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Mute and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2.0.2 from kurama'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 Mute 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: Mute.dmg (1.5 MB).
What is new in Mute 2.0.2
## What's Changed * docs: fix minimum macOS version in README by @kurama in https://github.com/kurama/mute/pull/46 * Verify Shortcut installation instead of assuming success by @kurama in https://github.com/kurama/mute/pull/47 * Onboarding: preview each display mode on the appearance step by @kurama in https://github.com/kurama/mute/pull/48 * Settings: replace tabs with scrollable labeled sections by @kurama in https://github.com/kurama/mute/pull/49 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/kurama/mute/compare/v2.0.1...v2.0.2
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