EQK - Mac app with dynamic AI EQ
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EQK is the first Mac app with dynamic AI EQ - an equalizer that re-tunes itself per song in real time. Give every app its own EQ, headphone correction, and output device. No virtual drivers - just native macOS audio capture. 10-band parametric Tone Desk, 3,985+ AutoEq headphone profiles, per-app limiter, full signal-chain metering, and a free built-in FLAC player with synced lyrics for the songs that you own. 100% local, no telemetry, no subscription. Tune every app on your Mac.
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EQK 3.0
EQK began as a way to make sound enhancement through the equaliser accessible beyond audiophiles- to let the rest of us experience music the way the small minority who know the basics already do.
Most people don't know how much difference an EQ tweak can make to their listening experience. Two things kept them out: the technical, formalised structure of every existing EQ app made the first step overwhelming; and the learning curve was steep enough that meaningful benefit only came after real effort.
EQK solves both. The learning curve, by running an on-device engine that together with Apple Intelligence- dynamically tunes music on the go, learns it side-by-side to apply a more accurate EQ on the second play, and saves the per-song, per-app profile locally. Up to 1,000 songs get their own remembered EQ shape, refreshed every second to twice a second- saved by the app, not downloaded.
The intimidation, by dressing what was otherwise a cerebral process in a UI meant to keep you inside the experience of entertainment, not analysing it.
v3.0 introduces the Optimiser engine. It scans for broken song profiles, incompatible layouts, and anything else that might break the seamlessness of the app.
Since a large part of EQK is made by AI, and the whole thing began as a vibe-coded experiment, the Optimiser is a unique answer to what to do with the creative freedom AI gives us in a short amount of time: use it to accelerate the intelligence and working of the dynamic AI EQ engine itself. Some songs may appear over-EQ'd but the overall response from listeners so far has been phenomenal. The Optimiser doesn't touch code, only broken and incompatible app-created data.
Been using this for a few days and the per-app EQ is genuinely wild, especially the auto tune per song feature. One thing I'd love to see is a simple way to save and recall whole output setups like a Home pair, work headphones, speakers, etc, so I don't have to remap every app when I switch.
EQK 3.0
@adnan616769 We are so glad you are enjoying the product and everything you said Is exactly what we wanted our consumers to experience. And that is a great suggestion and will definitely be present in the updates very soon!
Foyer
per-app EQ is the thing i wish existed every time a video is quiet and the music after it blows my ears out. auto tuning per song is a clever touch, and system audio on mac is a genuinely hard surface to build on
EQK 3.0
@fberrez1 @fberrez1 We are very glad you are enjoying the product. Per app volume control was beyond the scope of this app, and we always advise using volume control through the app. As a general best practice to avoid volume-related issues, we always advise maximising all app volumes and reducing the Mac’s system-wide volume as a general best practice to avoid volume related situations.
dynamic EQ that adjusts per track sounds nice in theory but I could see it working against you on an album that's mixed to sound consistent front to back, if every song gets re-tuned individually you'd lose that intentional flow. is there a way to lock the curve for a whole album/playlist once you land on something you like, or does it always re-analyze and adjust track by track no matter what
EQK 3.0
@omri_ben_shoham1 That's a great question Shoham - our app has a custom static EQ, an AI tuned static EQ, and the advertised real time EQ. We would never impose our innovation over your own tunes <3.