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VoiceMeeter for Mac: What to Use Instead

VoiceMeeter does not run on macOS. It is a Windows application built on Windows audio APIs, there is no Mac port, and there is no plan for one. If you came here looking for a download, that is the short answer. The longer answer is which Mac tool does the particular thing you wanted VoiceMeeter for, because they are not all the same job.

Updated October 2026 macOS 14.2+ ~5 minutes

Why there is no Mac version

VoiceMeeter is not simply an app. It installs a set of Windows audio drivers that present themselves to the system as real devices, and those drivers are written against the Windows driver model. None of that has a macOS counterpart that could be ported, so a Mac version would be a rewrite rather than a port.

This also rules out the usual workarounds. Running it in Parallels, VMware or Wine does not help: a virtual machine gets a virtual sound card, so VoiceMeeter inside the VM can only route audio belonging to that VM, not your Mac's audio.

What were you using it for?

VoiceMeeter bundles several jobs into one window, which is why "the Mac equivalent" has no single answer. Work out which of these you actually need:

• A virtual cable, to send one app's audio into another app.
• Recording what the machine is playing, to a file or into a DAW.
• Mixing several sources live, for streaming or a call.
• Per-application volume control.

The macOS options, by job

A virtual cable

BlackHole is free and open source and is the de facto standard. It creates a virtual device; you set it as your output and select it as an input elsewhere. Loopback from Rogue Amoeba does the same with a graphical patchbay and costs considerably more.

The catch with the virtual-cable approach, on any platform, is that while your audio is going to the cable it is not going to your speakers. You end up building an aggregate or multi-output device to hear what you are routing, which is the step most people get stuck on.

Recording what the machine is playing

Audio Hijack is the established Mac answer for capturing an application to a file. AudioRoute covers the same ground and adds two things VoiceMeeter users tend to want: it records straight onto a track inside your DAW through a VST3, AU or AAX plug-in, and it installs a virtual input device so apps that record from a microphone can select it directly.

Both capture without a virtual cable, so your monitoring is untouched while recording.

Mixing several sources live

This is the job with the weakest Mac equivalent. Loopback gets closest for combining sources into one virtual device. If you need faders, metering and routing in the VoiceMeeter sense, a small hardware mixer or a DAW session is usually less fragile than stacking virtual devices.

Per-application volume

SoundSource is the direct answer here and does it well.

What actually works differently on a Mac

macOS 14.2 introduced process taps, which let an application capture another application's audio without a virtual device in the signal path. That is a real architectural difference from the Windows world VoiceMeeter came from, and it is why several Mac tools can record a specific app without you configuring any routing at all.

The practical consequence: on a Mac you often do not need the routing layer you were building on Windows. Pick the app whose job matches yours, rather than reconstructing VoiceMeeter out of parts.

If you are moving between both platforms, see VoiceMeeter alternatives for the cross-platform comparison, and AudioRoute vs BlackHole for how a capture tool differs from a virtual cable.