I made Beamhook - stop macOS from sending your media keys to the wrong app

[ppixu]

Hello! I made a small menubar app that let's you route media keys + volume control to specific app.

Got tired of pressing play and some background YouTube tab starts blasting instead of Spotify.

I was very used to BeardedSpice but that doesn't work on latest macOS. MacMediakeyForwarder has a new fork but I think it only controls Spotify or Apple Music.

Built in: Spotify, Apple Music, Apple TV, VLC, QuickTime Player

• Browsers too — Safari, Chrome, Brave — hooked to a specific tab rather than the whole browser
• Volume sliders for whatever is currently playing, including per-tab sliders for browser sources
• Optional: route the volume keys to the hooked app too; ⌘+volume still does system volume
• Add your own apps with custom AppleScript (experimental)
• Native Swift, menu-bar only, no Electron, macOS 14.0+, Apple Silicon & Intel

Site: https://beamhook.app/ Github: https://github.com/ppixu/beamhook

It's open source (GPL-3.0) — build it yourself for free, or grab the signed & notarized build for €5 (one-time, all 1.x updates included).

Would love some feedback!

 

[bogdanw]

No need for brew install xcodegen, XcodeGen can be installed from source:

git clone https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen.git
cd XcodeGen
sudo make install