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Lyra
Shipping · v1.7F-key volume control for Universal Audio interfaces - with native Shortcuts, Spotlight, widgets, Focus Filters, and a lyra:// URL scheme.
Audita
Shipping · v1.3A menu-bar SPL meter for monitoring discipline and hearing protection - pin your monitor to a calibrated reference and track hearing dose at once.
Specula
Shipping · v1.0A pro-grade audio analyser for macOS - full EBU R128 loudness, FFT, stereo and phase, and sample-accurate A/B of up to six masters.
About
Headroom is a one-person studio making small, focused tools for macOS. I've spent most of my life around audio - live sound first, then recording and production, and eventually into software. These days I work in software quality at a major professional audio company, while my home studio stays busy with personal projects. Guitar has been the constant through all of it, and I've been steadily picking up drums and bass.
I build the apps I was always missing. Tools that do one thing well, feel native to macOS, and stay out of the way. Clean design isn't a nice-to-have - it's the point.
Why aren't these apps free? Building and maintaining software properly takes real time and investment. A one-time purchase makes that sustainable without subscriptions, ads, or eventually abandoning the project. You buy it once; I keep it working.
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Specula 1.0
Pro audio analysis for macOS: EBU R128 loudness, speech-gated LUFS, FFT and spectrogram, six-file compare with A/B residuals, non-destructive editing, and a 22-target compliance catalog. Universal (Intel + Apple Silicon).
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Lyra 1.6
Interactive widgets, a Settings window, UA Mixer Engine auto-start/quit, and a universal binary that runs on Intel Macs.
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Audita 1.3
Six desktop widgets, post-trial test sessions, reliability and security hardening, and a corrected EU weekly exposure (L_EX,w) calculation.
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