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Halo Out now · Free · macOS

Un-greys your volume keys.

The grey slider problem.

Run two Studio Displays — or any monitors-plus-headphones combo — through a Multi-Output Device, and macOS greys out your volume keys and the menu-bar slider. The keys do nothing. The slider is dead.

Halo fixes it.

A tiny menu-bar app that intercepts F11 / F12 / mute and writes the volume to each speaker of the aggregate directly — so everything moves together.

  • A proper volume HUD — replaces the one Apple broke on macOS Sequoia
  • 32 fine volume steps instead of 16
  • Scroll-wheel volume on the menu-bar icon
  • One-click Create Halo Speakers for Studio Displays
  • Levels remembered across reboots
Halo's custom volume HUD shown over a macOS desktop
Halo's HUD, sitting where Apple's used to.

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Get Halo ↗ Free · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon & Intel