macOS moves your audio. AudioPin moves it back.
Pin your output and your microphone once. When a display, AirPods, or macOS itself silently changes the default, AudioPin reverts it - before you reach for System Settings.
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macOS treats the newest device as the best device. It is almost never the device you wanted.
output jumps to HDMI TV - the movie plays through the monitor's tin speakers
the call grabs their phone-quality mic - and your voice drops to walkie-talkie
your interface is quietly no longer the default - you find out mid-take
You set it back by hand. Again. AudioPin does it for you, every time.
Pick your output and your input in the menu bar. That pick is the pin. No profiles, no rules to write.
The moment the system swaps a default on its own, AudioPin sets it back - immediately and automatically. The menu shows the last revert it did for you.
Choose another device yourself and AudioPin respects it: your choice becomes the new pin. Unpin either side to hand control back to macOS.
The whole app is this menu
No Dock icon, no windows, no onboarding. A tiny menu bar item shows your devices, what is current, what is pinned - and the last revert it did for you.
Devices are tracked by identity, not by connection: unplug your interface and nothing happens; plug it back in and the pin snaps back. AudioPin never fights you - it only reverts changes the system made on its own.
Reading and setting default audio devices needs no macOS permission. AudioPin never asks for one - there is nothing to grant.
The app ships without any network entitlement. Sandboxed, App Store distributed - it cannot phone home even if it wanted to.
No analytics, no crash SDKs, no account. Apple's privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" in every category.
The full policy fits on one page: privacy.
It watches your defaults from the menu bar for as long as you own your Mac. No subscription, no unlocks, no account.
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