PlayCover
PlayCover is a project that allows you to sideload iOS apps on macOS (currently arm, Intel support will be tested) (by iVoider)
BackgroundMusic
Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. (by kyleneideck)
| PlayCover | BackgroundMusic | |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 84 | |
| 3,908 | 15,155 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.2 | 6.4 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 13 days ago | |
| Swift | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PlayCover
Posts with mentions or reviews of PlayCover.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-30.
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Finally get RLSS to run natively on M1 Mac, it’s beautiful to play at bigger screen.
Install PlayCover, choose 1.0.1, do NOT use the latest version, it doesn't work with RLSS. https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover/releases
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Is it possible to play purchased iOS game on Macbook? (Stardew valley and Deadcells)
You could install PlayCover and run the iOS version of the game. https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover
- Best Emulator That Runs On M1 Macs
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Being able to run the iOS apps on ARM based macOS is a godsend.
There's a utility called PlayCover in development that aims to work around this, but not all iOS app work for some reason, hopefully that keeps improving.
- uYouPlus crashing at startup on M1 - libcolorpicker.dylib issue
- Is there a way to play 7DSGC on Mac with M1 chips ?
- Android Emulator For M1
- Mac Studio (Ultra) Performance Question
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Bests FPS games for M1 MacBook Air?
https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover if you use this you can play some ios games, 0.9.2-0.9.4 you will be able to play CoD mobile. It is actually pretty good when you keymap it
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Hi, friends 💕. Please could you guys sign and share with your friends to increase the chances of Genshin coming to Mac? https://chng.it/WNJPx8RpVX
If your friends have M1 macs they can try playing through PlayCover. This will sideload IOS version and allow to map keyboard/mouse to touch controls (all though I recommend using ps4 controller).
BackgroundMusic
Posts with mentions or reviews of BackgroundMusic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
- Output different audio streams to two separate devices
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MBP16 M2 + Dell u3419w
For controlling a software defined volume like Windows has, try https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
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HOW TO: Record Audio and Screen at the same time on a Mac for FREE!
Download Background Music: LINK (free and open-source) Once downloaded, run it and you'll see it as an icon in your menu bar
- Free Screen Recorder With System Audio
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MacOS Audio API
Thanks for the comment. I checked out Rogue Amoeba's SoundSource, and BackgroundMusic. I think they're using some sort of virtual audio device or something to intercept applications' audio data, control each application's volume, and then send it to the speakers (or another output device).
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Old sound output app still shows up in the Sound menu bar menu
I had an app called Background Music that I deleted a few days ago, but it still shows up as an audio output in the Sound menu bar menu as well as in Settings.
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Looking for a volume mixer app
you can check BackgroundMusic : https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
- IOS Sound Control Panel
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App to automatically pause Spotify/Apple Music when YouTube video starts playing
Tried https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic before. But didn't work for me.
- As someone who works from coffee shops often, I WISH the MacOS volume glyph would reflect a connected device like iOS does
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PlayCover and BackgroundMusic you can also consider the following projects:
KeyMapper - **DEVELOPMENT STOPPED**.📱 An Android app that change what the buttons do on your devices!
eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
Watusi-for-WhatsApp - Your all-in-one tweak for WhatsApp Messenger!
osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
BlackHole - BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
ios-signer-service - ✒ A free, self-hosted, cross-platform service to sign and install iOS apps, all without a computer [Moved to: https://github.com/SignTools/SignTools]
Scroll-Reverser - Per-device scrolling prefs on macOS.
PlayCover vs KeyMapper
BackgroundMusic vs eqMac
PlayCover vs Rectangle
BackgroundMusic vs Dozer
PlayCover vs OpenEmu
BackgroundMusic vs Rectangle
PlayCover vs Watusi-for-WhatsApp
BackgroundMusic vs osxfuse
PlayCover vs HomeBrew
BackgroundMusic vs BlackHole
PlayCover vs ios-signer-service
BackgroundMusic vs Scroll-Reverser