I've been thinking about this a lot while building my app. Most of us have 10+ apps that ping us, Slack, Teams, Mail, Calendar, Discord, and they all basically sound the same, so we've trained ourselves to check every single one.
I got obsessed with the idea that your Mac should sound like your actual life: a specific sound for your boss, a cha-ching when a sale lands, something soft for a friend, silence for the noise. So I built Chirpy to do exactly that (just launched 3.0, it now works with any app in Notification Center, not just Slack/Teams).
Curious how other people handle this:
do you turn most notification sounds off entirely, or keep them on?
if you could give one app or person its own distinct sound, what would it be?
Chirpy gives every notification on your Mac its own sound, so you know who's pinging before you look. Not just Slack and Teams, any app in Notification Center: browser, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Discord, and more.
Make a rule by app, channel, person, or keyword. Choose from 70+ built-in sounds or upload your own, set the volume per rule, preview any sound from the list. Native macOS menu bar app, 100% local.
$19.99 one-time. Lifetime, no subscription. Free trial, no card.
Chirpy allows you to set custom notification sounds for your Slack channels, so you can easily distinguish between them. Built for desktop macOS Slack client.
