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ANCBuddy for Bose QC Ultra
Control Bose QC Ultra from your macOS menu bar
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Control Bose QC Ultra from your macOS menu bar
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ANCBuddy puts ANC mode and battery status for Bose QuietComfort Ultra devices into the macOS menu bar so you can toggle modes and monitor battery without opening another app. Free trial available; designed for commuters and focus-first workflows. Looking for feedback from QC Ultra users on macOS.
ANCBuddy for Bose QC Ultra
I’m the indie developer behind ANCBuddy. I built this after repeatedly switching apps to control my QC Ultra on macOS. Happy to answer technical questions, share the roadmap, and collect feedback.
While I believe the main hook is the simple control of the headphones via Mac: I honestly like the AI Auto-EQ Feature a lot! It's so simple and really increases the quality and depth of music I listen to. It's unique (nothing similar seen so far) and makes a difference. Try it out!
@deniz_aytac1 Awesome Product Deniz!
AI Auto-EQ that actually reads as unique is a bold claim.
What's it analyzing to tune that, the track itself or your headphone's known response curve?
ANCBuddy for Bose QC Ultra
Thanks@yashekbote!
Today, ANCBuddy is at the metadata-aware layer: it reads the artist, title, and album from Now Playing, uses that context to generate a three-band Bass/Mid/Treble profile, and applies it directly to the QC Ultra over BMAP. It doesn’t currently inspect the waveform or compensate against a measured headphone response curve, and no audio is captured or uploaded.
I see some exciting layers beyond that: preserving and learning the listener’s preferred baseline, incorporating model-specific response data and eventually optional on-device signal analysis with the audio remaining local.
So today it’s automatic track-aware tuning. The later layers could make it genuinely adaptive and personalized.
Happy to get more context on your perspective here!
Congrats on the launch. QC Ultra supports Bluetooth multipoint - paired to two devices at once and switching audio between them. Does the menu bar state (ANC mode, battery) track correctly when the active device flips, or is it scoped to whatever Mac you're on regardless of which device the headphones are actually talking to right now?
ANCBuddy for Bose QC Ultra
Thanks@omri_ben_shoham1 quite exciting as it's my first time launching. To your question:
ANCBuddy is headset-scoped, not audio-source-scoped: whenever you open the panel, it queries the QC Ultra itself over Bose’s BLE/BMAP control channel for the current ANC mode and battery level. Those values describe the headphones, regardless of whether the Mac or the second multipoint device currently has the audio stream.
Example of a possible use case: You could open the panel and adjust the headphones settings on Mac, while music is playing from your iPhone.