MicWisp Get the app

QUIET MIC. LIGHT FOOTPRINT.

Turn your phone into a mic.
Light enough to forget.

MicYou turns a phone into a microphone; MicWisp makes that feel almost invisible.
One menu-bar icon. One click. No Dock icon, no fuss.

Download for macOS

GPL-3.0 / Menu bar / Idle 18.7 MB

MicWisp menu-bar panel showing status, start, and volume controls

Web backdrop-filter is only an approximation of system Liquid Glass

Native SwiftUI · Liquid Glass No Dock icon Optional noise reduction · off by default Complements · doesn’t replace

01 / WHY SO LIGHT.

Why it’s this light

Lightness is measured. Idle Physical footprint is a real number; features stay on the path of “phone as microphone,” without feature bloat.

18.7MB

macOS idle Physical footprint (cold start 60s, popover closed, no device). Budget baseline ≤ 25 MB.

MetricValue
Physical footprint (budget)18.7 MB
footprint tool19 MB
ps RSS (reference)66.89 MB
vs 25 MB baseline−6.3 MB

Conditions: 2026-11-07 B2 · cold start 60s · popover closed · no device. ps RSS includes reclaimable pages and is not the budget metric.

02 / JUST THE PATH.

Features on the core path

Discover, connect, gain, mute, optional noise reduction, automatic recovery — enough to work, nothing that steals attention.

Discover & connect

Find MicYou-compatible servers on the LAN and connect in one tap. Clients speak the protocol, not a hard-coded OS.

Gain & mute

Adjust volume and mute from the menu-bar panel. Glance when you need it; leave it alone when you don’t.

Optional noise reduction

Off by default. Turn it on when you want: RNNoise / PureVox / Speexdsp, with adjustable intensity.

Automatic recovery

If the backend exits unexpectedly, MicWisp brings it back so your call or capture keeps going.

Battery-aware

On battery or thermal pressure, overhead drops — spectrum, refresh, and polling — without quietly cutting audio quality.

Native materials

SwiftUI + system Liquid Glass. Menu-bar only, no Dock icon, no stolen workspace.

MicWisp panel with optional noise-reduction controls

OPTIONAL · OFF BY DEFAULT

Noise reduction is opt-in, not a default tax

Engines come from upstream: RNNoise, PureVox, Speexdsp. Off by default; intensity 0–100 when enabled. Idle sidecar cost barely moves.

03 / WHERE IT RUNS.

Platform status

macOS first; iOS on TestFlight; Android and Windows follow the roadmap.

Available

DESKTOP

macOS

Menu-bar app, downloadable from GitHub Releases.

In beta

MOBILE

iOS

TestFlight beta — not shipped on the App Store.

Planned

MOBILE

Android

Native Compose client in a later roadmap batch.

Planned

DESKTOP

Windows

Light tray-style shell, scheduled after current batches.

READY WHEN YOU ARE.

Get it from GitHub

Open Releases

macOS · Menu bar · GPL-3.0

Repository & notes

The download CTA points at GitHub Releases rather than a single asset filename. Signing and notarization status follow the release notes. If macOS blocks the first open, confirm the download source, then allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security.

  1. 01

    Download the build

    Grab the latest macOS build from GitHub Releases, unzip it, and move it into Applications.

  2. 02

    Open the menu-bar icon

    No Dock icon after launch. Click the menu-bar icon to discover devices and connect.

  3. 03

    Enable noise reduction if needed

    Off by default. Turn on an engine and intensity when you want; battery mode trims overhead automatically.