Mac audio tools that start by listening to the room with a microphone, not by turning a knob. Measuring it is the only thing that changes it.
Before
±9.4dBAfter
±3.1dB
third-octave bands
to measure your room
headphones already measured
drivers to install
Why they exist
Good speakers in an ordinary room sound like an ordinary room. The wall behind you throws the bass back, the desk reflects the mids, and you turn it up thinking the file is at fault.
You measure in REW, calculate in Excel, draw on the printed floor plan and quote in Excel again. Two transcriptions by hand, and not one of the four is a Mac app.
It measures your room in twenty-four seconds and corrects what your speakers swallow. You join a call and it switches to Voice; you hang up and Music comes back. And whatever plays lands at the same level, wherever it comes from.
For treating rooms with numbers instead of guesswork. It measures against ISO 3382-2, diagnoses, proposes the material with its price and builds the report under your own brand.
What they share
Pink noise through the speakers, a microphone listening, and the correction comes out of the difference. It is the engineering-school experiment, done with what the Mac already has.
No Electron, no Java. It launches like any other system app.
There is no cloud to ask and no server that can go down.
Ekhio uses the macOS 14.4 process tap. Nothing to authorize in Security.
A license, not a subscription. The version you bought stays yours.
Ekhio matches level using ITU-R BS.1770 loudness —the one broadcasters use— and measures the room against ISO 3382-2, same as Verberio.
Questions
Because they are two trades. Someone who wants their Mac to sound good does not need an ISO report, and whoever signs off a report charges for an assessment does not want their app changing the equalizer on its own. Together they would get in both their ways.
Akouvara ships audio tools for the Mac. If one of them is useful to you, I will let you know when the next one is out. One email per release, nothing else.