Is there Voicemeeter for Mac, and what do Mac users use instead?

On the old Windows PC it lived in the system tray and nobody thought about it. Strip one was the USB mic with the compressor knob turned to about a third. A virtual input carried Spotify at low volume. Bus A1 went to the headphones, bus B1 went to Discord as the microphone. Then the new MacBook arrives, you open vb-audio.com, and the download box for Voicemeeter says "XP to WIN11 32/64 bits & ARM64". ARM64 means Windows on ARM. Not macOS.

So the short answer to "is there Voicemeeter for Mac" is no. As of October 2026, VB-Audio does not list a macOS build of any of the three editions (Voicemeeter, Banana, Potato). The longer answer is more useful: everything Voicemeeter did on that PC can be done on a Mac, but no single app does all of it, and most people only ever used one or two of its jobs. Figure out which ones were yours, and the replacement gets cheap and simple.

Voicemeeter for Mac: what VB-Audio actually offers

On the Mac, VB-Audio makes cables and nothing else: VB-CABLE for Mac, plus VB-CABLE A+B and C+D packs for people who need extra cables. The main package on the vendor page is VBCable_MACDriver_Pack108, dated May 2021, built for Intel and Apple silicon, for macOS 10.10 and later. Like the Windows version, it is donationware: you can use it free and set the license price yourself if you want to pay.

A cable is not a mixer. Whatever an app plays into the cable input comes out of the cable output, and another app can record it as if it were a microphone. That covers one of Voicemeeter's jobs. It does not give you faders, buses, an equalizer or a compressor.

Voicemeeter on Windows bundles three different jobs into one window, and on a Mac those three jobs are split between different tools:

1. Routing. Virtual inputs and outputs, so one app's sound can become another app's microphone.
2. Mixing. Several sources on separate strips with their own volume, sent to several outputs (buses A and B).
3. Processing. The Color Panel equalizer and the Audibility knob, which VB-Audio describes as a compressor and gate effect on each strip.

If the words "virtual audio device" are still fuzzy, start with what a virtual microphone is and why a Mac would need one. That page is for the reader who wants the concept first; this one assumes you already ran Voicemeeter and want its replacement.

Voicemeeter jobs mapped to Mac tools

Here is the translation table, job by job. Prices are vendor list prices as of October 2026.

Notice the shape. Routing is free on a Mac. Mixing with real faders costs money or a workaround. Processing the microphone for every app at once is where the work, or the money, goes.

The free build: BlackHole plus Audio MIDI Setup

BlackHole, from Existential Audio, is the free loopback driver most Mac guides point to. Its GitHub page describes it as passing audio between applications with zero additional driver latency, with builds of 2, 16, 64, 128 and 256 channels, for macOS 10.10 and newer on Intel and Apple silicon. It is open source under GPLv3. The 2-channel build is enough for voice:

brew install blackhole-2ch

(There is also a regular installer on the Existential Audio site if you do not use Homebrew.)

On its own, BlackHole is a silent pipe. The second half is Audio MIDI Setup, which is already on every Mac under Finder, Go, Utilities. It gives you two kinds of combined device:

• Multi-Output Device. Click the plus button at the bottom of the sidebar, choose Create Multi-Output Device, tick Use for your headphones and for BlackHole. Now whatever the Mac plays goes to your ears and into the pipe at the same time. That is Voicemeeter's A1 + B1 for system sound, and it is how people record a call or feed a browser tab into OBS.
• Aggregate Device. Same plus button, Create Aggregate Device. This glues several inputs into one device with more channels, for example two USB mics for a two-person podcast in GarageBand. Apple's guide asks for the same sample rate on every subdevice and drift correction on each device that is not the clock source. Without it, two devices running on separate clocks can drift apart over a long recording.

What this free build does not have is the part that made Voicemeeter feel like a mixing desk. There is no fader per source, no mute button per strip, no EQ, no compressor. You get plumbing, not a console.

The free mixer with filters: OBS as a stand-in for Banana

Plenty of streamers already have OBS Studio open, and OBS has the two things the plumbing lacks: per-source volume in the Audio Mixer and per-source filters (noise suppression, noise gate, compressor, gain). The hard part is getting the OBS mix out to Zoom or Discord, because OBS on its own does not show up as a microphone. The commonly documented route uses the monitoring output, sending it into BlackHole, and picking BlackHole as the mic in the call app:

OBS Studio
  Settings > Audio > Monitoring Device: BlackHole 2ch
  Mic/Aux source > Filters: Noise Suppression, Noise Gate, Compressor
  Music or browser source: fader down to taste
  Edit > Advanced Audio Properties:
      Mic/Aux      -> Monitor and Output
      Music source -> Monitor and Output

Zoom / Discord / Google Meet
  Microphone: BlackHole 2ch

This works, and it costs nothing. The catches are practical. OBS has to stay open for your mic to exist. The monitoring path was built for listening, not as a live microphone feed, so make a test recording with your camera on and check that your lips and your voice still line up. And because monitoring now goes to BlackHole instead of your headphones, you lose the habit of hearing yourself through OBS.

Which filters to stack and in what order is its own topic: the OBS mic filter chain, step by step covers the settings and the order.

The paid build that comes closest to Voicemeeter Banana: Loopback and Audio Hijack

If you want the Voicemeeter feeling back, sources in columns, wires to outputs, a volume per source, the closest Mac equivalent is Rogue Amoeba's Loopback. Its page describes combining audio from apps and input devices into virtual devices that every app can choose, with per-source volume, monitoring, custom channel mapping and up to 64 channels. As of October 2026 it costs $99, and version 2.5.0 runs on macOS 14.5 through 27.

The everyday Voicemeeter setup translates like this:

Loopback routes and mixes. It does not EQ or compress the voice. For that, Rogue Amoeba pairs it with Audio Hijack ($69 on its own, $134 for the two together; macOS 14.4 through 27). Their own support article lays out the chain: an Input Device block for your mic, an equalizer such as AUParametricEQ, a Sync block that delays audio to stay in step with video, then an Output Device block that sends everything into a Loopback pass-thru device. Zoom picks the pass-thru device as its microphone. Turn on Auto Run and the chain is always there when a call starts.

Two things to know before buying. First, the trials are full versions with a catch: after 20 minutes Loopback overlays noise on its virtual devices, and Audio Hijack adds noise after 10 minutes of capture. Judge them on a short test, not on a real one-hour meeting. Second, Audio Hijack hands you the blocks, not the settings. You decide where the EQ cuts and how hard the compressor works. If you liked turning Voicemeeter's knobs, that is a feature. If you only touched them once because a YouTube video said so, it is a weekend of homework.

Whether you need one of these apps, both, or neither depends on what you are trying to fix; Audio Hijack vs Loopback answers that for the case where the goal is a better-sounding mic rather than routing.

If you only used Voicemeeter for per-app volume

Some people installed Voicemeeter only to keep a game quiet while music played, or to send the browser to speakers and Discord to headphones. On a Mac, that job belongs to SoundSource, also from Rogue Amoeba: per-app volume, per-app output device, a built-in 10-band equalizer, Audio Unit effects, all from the menu bar. It costs $49 and the current version needs macOS 15 or later. If you only want an equalizer on what you hear, eqMac has a free Basic tier, with Pro at $3 a month, $30 a year or $40 for a lifetime license as of October 2026.

Both work on what the Mac plays. Neither turns your microphone into a processed voice that Zoom receives.

If what you really wanted was a better voice on calls

Here is a common Voicemeeter story, and the one where the Mac answer differs most. Someone wanted their voice to sound fuller and steadier on Zoom, found a tutorial, installed Voicemeeter, and used exactly two controls: the Color Panel to warm the voice up and the Audibility knob to even out loud and quiet moments. All the buses and virtual inputs were just the price of getting those two knobs onto the mic.

On a Mac, the built-in options look like this. System Settings, Sound, Input gives you a device list and an input volume slider, and nothing else. Mic Modes are the second built-in tool: in an app that supports them, such as FaceTime, the Video item in the menu bar has a Mic Mode menu with Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum and Standard, and Apple notes that options vary by app. Voice Isolation filters background sound. Apple's guide describes no tone or EQ settings for it, so it cleans the room, not the voice.

So for "warmer, clearer, steadier, in every app" you have three real paths:

1. Build the chain yourself with Audio Hijack and Loopback, about $134, and pick the EQ and compression by ear.
2. Build it for free in OBS with BlackHole, and live with OBS running during every call.
3. Use a virtual microphone that does the tuning for you. This is where TunedMic fits, and it is our product, so here are the specifics instead of adjectives.

TunedMic adds one more microphone to the Mac, called TunedMic. Your real mic stays as it is; the app takes its sound, processes it on the Mac in real time, and any app that lets you choose a mic, Zoom, Meet, Teams, Discord, Slack, OBS, a browser, hears the processed voice. Setup is a one-minute Sound Check: you read a short passage aloud and it takes more than 30 measurements of your voice, your mic and your room. From those it builds nine profiles in three families (calls, streams, singing). Switching profile changes the sound in every app at once. If you miss Voicemeeter's knobs, the manual controls are there: noise, room echo, clarity, loudness and a 12-band equalizer, none of which you have to touch. It adds less than a tenth of a second of delay, and the voice never leaves the Mac.

The limits, stated plainly: it needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or later, there is no Windows version, and you get 3 days to try it before paying. It is not a router or a mixer either, so it will not put Spotify into your Discord mic. Because it shows up as an ordinary input device, though, a router like Loopback can take it as a source the same way it takes any other microphone.

Which replacement fits which Voicemeeter user

The pattern in that table is deliberate: start with the free plumbing for routing jobs, and spend money only on the job the free tools cannot do, which on a Mac is almost always processing the voice.

Mistakes people make when switching from Voicemeeter

• Expecting one app to replace it. Shopping for "Voicemeeter for Mac" can easily end with three overlapping installs. Pick tools by job, using the table above.
• Feedback through the speakers. If BlackHole or a Loopback device is part of a Multi-Output Device that also feeds your speakers, and the call app is listening to the same device, you hear yourself and the others hear an echo. Use headphones while you set up.
• Forgetting to pick the device in each app. macOS has a system input, but Zoom, Discord, Telegram and OBS each keep their own microphone choice. After building anything, open each app's audio settings once.
• Judging a trial on a long call. The Rogue Amoeba trials add noise after 10 or 20 minutes. That noise is the trial limit, not a fault.
• Mixed sample rates in an Aggregate Device. Apple's guide asks for the same rate on every subdevice. Set them in Audio MIDI Setup before blaming the mic.
• Expecting a Bluetooth headset to carry a studio voice. Bluetooth limits how much detail a mic can send. Any processing, whether a chain you build or TunedMic, has more to work with on a wired or USB mic.

What to do in the next ten minutes

Write down, on paper, the controls you actually touched in Voicemeeter in the last month. If the list says "virtual input, bus B1", install BlackHole and build a Multi-Output Device; that is the whole job, and it is free. If it says "faders for mic and music", try OBS with BlackHole tonight and buy Loopback only if keeping OBS open gets old. If it says "Color Panel and Audibility knob", the job was your voice, not routing. Then listen to the before and after recordings on the TunedMic home page, made with a Hollyland Lark M2 clip-on (once with a Dyson hair dryer running a meter away), a MacBook's built-in mic and a cheap wired headset, and decide whether $39 once on the pricing page beats building and tuning the chain yourself.