Keep your headphones on.
Let Silenz handle the rest.
Someone speaks. Your music fades and their voice comes through. Lock the screen and the music pauses. Unplug and the speakers stay silent.
$16 · one-time purchase
or try it free for 7 days on Setapp
Nothing is recorded. Audio never leaves your Mac.
Works with Apple Music, Spotify, VLC and 10 more. Requires macOS 13 or later.
Silenz is a Mac app. View it on the App Store from your Mac.
Focus
Someone talks? It auto‑pauses.
Stay in flow until something needs you. Smart mode listens for speech, phone rings, and doorbells, ignores random background noise, and brings your music back when it's quiet.
Hear
Hear the room, headphones on.
Ambient Sound brings the room into your headphones, live. Silenz listens through your Mac's microphone and plays what it hears alongside your music, so you can follow who's talking without taking them off.
Protect
Walk away. It goes quiet.
Lock your Mac or unplug your headphones and Silenz pauses playback or mutes the output, so nothing blasts through your speakers. Set it once in Settings, along with sensitivity and shortcuts.
Control
Works with your players.
Playback and volume, handled automatically. Apple Music, Spotify, VLC and 10 more.
Testimonials
From the reviews
A useful app. Perfect for the office. I would highly recommend!
Michal
Graphic Designer
Press
“Silenz’s Ambient Sound is live microphone passthrough: Transparency mode for your Mac. It pipes the room into your headphones so you can hear someone talking to you without pulling an AirPod out, and ducks whatever you’re playing when it hears a voice.”
“If you ever had to continuously pause your favorite music player when someone wanted to speak with you or had to remove the headphones completely, Silenz is the best solution to avoid such situations.”
Editor’s review
Stop taking off your headphones.
Works with 13 players. Nothing is recorded.
$16 · one-time purchase
or try it free for 7 days on Setapp
Requires macOS 13 or later