Tapdeck 0.5.0

Tapdeck routes, mixes and records audio on macOS: it takes the sound of individual apps, the whole system, microphones and audio interfaces, mixes them, and plays the result to any number of outputs at once — speakers, headphones, Bluetooth, AirPlay, or virtual devices that other apps such as Zoom and OBS can use as a microphone.

What's new in 0.5.0

• Language choice: Settings › General offers System default, English and 日本語. The choice applies to the windows at once, without restarting Tapdeck; the app menu and file dialogs follow the next time it starts.
• Japanese translation of the interface.
• The choice is kept in Tapdeck's preferences, on your Mac only.

Install

1. Download Tapdeck-0.5.0.dmg, open it, and drag Tapdeck.app onto the Applications folder beside it.

2. Tapdeck is signed but not notarized, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to the message about Tapdeck.

3. Optionally check the download: save Tapdeck-0.5.0.dmg.sha256 in the same folder as the dmg and run:

   shasum -a 256 -c Tapdeck-0.5.0.dmg.sha256
   

Requires macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon.

Known limitations

• Virtual devices need the driver, which is not in the dmg: build and install it once from the source with sudo ./install-driver.sh. Everything else works without it.
• AirPlay: making AirPlay the Mac's output while a mix plays to it has not yet been tested with a receiver.
• Menu bar: when the menu bar is already full, macOS does not show newly added icons, Tapdeck's included. The window says so; freeing room once is enough.
• No MP3: macOS has no MP3 encoder; AAC takes its place.

Tapdeck sends nothing anywhere. See PRIVACY.md.