MicSwitch VS Keka

For the Mic mute there are a few free programs which can do that. One is called MicMute and another is called MicSwitch. At least one of them can use a hotkey.

I don’t think you can natively, but there are apps that will do it. This one looks promising.

Finally, the last program I used is called MicSwitch. This program is actually something I had used before buying the 5-inch display, I just used a hotkey instead. This lets me mute or unmute my microphone using one of the dock's buttons. I used MicSwitch's overlay function to have an updating indicator on the dock. I just placed it over the button.

**Applications:** [Stats](https://github.com/exelban/stats) \- macOS system monitor in your menu bar [Maccy](https://maccy.app/) \- macOS clipboard manager [micSwitch](https://github.com/iXab3r/MicSwitch) \- mute/unmute your system microphone [MonitorControl](https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl) \- Control your external display's brightness & volume on your Mac [Rectangle](https://rectangleapp.com/) \- Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas [Background Music](https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic) \- set individual apps' volumes [Transmission](https://transmissionbt.com/) \- Free BitTorrent Client [Discord Canary](https://discord.com/api/download/canary?platform=osx) \- native M1 Discord app (direct download link)

micSwitch - mute/unmute your system microphone

Even if you dont have a switch, you can still mute your mic using MicSwitch, which in my opinion is arguably better as it allows you to set your own hotkeys, and choose between toggling your mic and push to talk/mute. Certainly, any way of mic muting is the way to go here.

I basically use the system-wide mute/unmute toggle via this app. https://github.com/iXab3r/MicSwitch - its very reliable... you can also assign your own hotkey in the app itself

Just a friendly heads-up that a program called MicSwitch exists. It lets you bind mic muting to a key, gives you a sound when you go on/off mute, and lets you customize an overlay that shows you if you're muted or not.

Here are two, which work pretty good. Pick one. You can download the binaries for Windows from the Release Pages. AHK MicMute and MicSwitch. First one maybe needs AutoHotkey installed.

Keka isn't open source. It's not even source-available! https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d0281...

> The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on [email protected] or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome.

While not identical in functionality, I highly recommend Keka: https://www.keka.io

Keka - Price: Free File archiver for macOS that supports many file formats, including ZIP, RAR, and 7-Zip.

Since RAR decompression is listed, I'll assume you mean compression:

https://github.com/aonez/Keka/wiki/Rar-compression

Sounds like it is a licensing issue more than anything? People still compress to RAR?

Step 3: Right click the duplicated EXE and click Open With> and select the extraction program of your choice. If you do not have one, I recommend Keka, which can be downloaded here https://github.com/aonez/Keka/releases/latest for free or purchased on the Mac App store if you would like to support the developer (https://mas.keka.io/)

Or course it may not be what you wanted, since you may download RAR files other than videos; and you may want to change the default application to RAR utilities, such as The Unarchiver or Keka.

- In an app called Keka: https://github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/1177

Keka is an awesome unarchiver

Textual¹ is open-source but sells the precompiled app. Keka² has the app available for free on GitHub but charges for it on the Mac App Store, to support development.

¹ IRC client for macOS: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual

² Un/archiver for macOS: https://github.com/aonez/Keka

Keka is a really good archive tool on macOS