Silence Me
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Menu-bar mic mute for macOS

Kill your mic with one key.
And it stays dead when you press it.

Silence Me mutes your microphone across every app from a single key you choose. Built to fix the one thing every Shush user has lived through: the day it quietly stops muting.

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The Shush problem

Why Shush stops muting, and why this doesn't.

If you used Shush long enough, you know the failure: the key works for weeks, then one call it just doesn't, and you find out the hard way. That is not bad luck. It is a specific, fixable bug, and it is the reason Silence Me exists.

What macOS actually does

Your global mute key is delivered through a system event tap. If that tap ever responds slowly, macOS quietly switches it off to protect the machine. Your key is now inert.

Where Shush drops the ball

macOS sends a "your tap was disabled" event when it happens. Shush never turns the tap back on. So the key silently dies mid-session and nothing tells you.

What Silence Me does instead

It watches for that exact shut-off event and re-arms the tap the instant it fires. Same idea Shush used to read your key, without the part that leaves you unmuted.

// the event macOS sends when it kills your key
match event {
  TapDisabledByTimeout |
  TapDisabledByUserInput => {
      // Shush: nothing happens here. key is dead.
      // Silence Me:
      tap.enable(true);   // re-arm, instantly
  }
  KeyPressed(fn) => toggle_mute(),
}

A real mute is a system-level mute of your input device, so every app, Zoom, Meet, FaceTime, Discord, sees the mic go quiet. Not a per-app trick.

What you get

Small, native, and yours to set up.

Muted everywhere at once

Silence Me mutes the system input device, so every app on your Mac sees the mic off. No per-app fiddling.

Your key, your sound

Pick the toggle key, Fn, a right-hand modifier, or an F-key, and the confirmation sound. Set once, forget it.

You hear it work

A clear cue on every toggle, tuned loud enough to trust. You never have to guess whether it caught.

Muted or live by default

Decide whether your mic rests off or on at login. Privacy-first, or ready-to-talk. Your call, one click.

Lives in the menu bar

No Dock icon, no window in your way. Starts with your Mac and stays out of sight until you need it.

Native and honest

A tiny signed, notarized app. No Electron, no telemetry, no account. It mutes your mic and gets out of the way.

Setup

Running in about a minute.

Three steps, then you never think about it again.

STEP 01

Install and grant access

Drag it to Applications and switch it on under Accessibility once. macOS needs that to read your mute key. Silence Me walks you straight to the setting.

STEP 02

Pick your key and sound

Choose the key you want to press and the tone you want to hear. It saves instantly and remembers across restarts.

STEP 03

Press. Done.

Tap the key from any app. The mic cuts out, you hear the cue, the menu-bar icon flips. And it keeps working, call after call.

Pricing

Buy it once. Keep it.

No subscription for a mute button. You pay once and it is yours, updates included.

$4.99
One-time · not per year
  • System-wide mute from your chosen key
  • Self-healing hotkey that doesn't go dead
  • Custom sound, volume, and default state
  • Signed, notarized, no account required
Buy Silence Me — $4.99
Or download the free 7-day trial first. Signed & notarized by Apple.