Use your own sounds to give your Mac a personality.

With sonorOS you can assign your own sounds to any of 36 common macOS system events. Customize alerts, modifier key presses, mouse clicks, window dragging and a whole lot more to play whatever sounds you like. Drag your .m4a, .mp3, .wav or .aif sound file onto an event in sonorOS and it will play every time that event occurs, for as long as the app is running unobtrusively in the background.

Tweak the noises coming out of your Mac to suit your tastes. Tinker to your heart’s content and create as many different sound profiles as you like, switching between them according to your mood. Always envied those futuristic blips and bleeps the computers in cheesy cyberpunk movies make? sonorOS has you covered.

Change sounds, add sounds and get useful audio cues.

In addition to injecting some personality into your computer, sonorOS can give you useful audio cues for important events that may happen when you’ve wandered away from your machine.

Why not set sonorOS to shout a warning that your MacBook needs charging when the battery level drops below 10%? Or how about telling it to play a sound to alert you as soon as Safari finally completes a lengthy download and deposits the file in your Downloads folder?

Perhaps you’ll load up your own grandfather clock sounds to help you keep track of the passage of time. You could set them to chime loudly on the hour while you contemplate the fragility of existence and the ephemeral nature of simple human pleasures.

36 macOS system events. Endless possibilities

Bored of the generic, anodyne Mac noises you’ve been listening to day in, day out for years? You can use sonorOS to play your own custom sound effects for any of these 36 system events – many of which are otherwise completely silent:

  • An alert sound occurs
  • Battery needs charging
  • Clock strikes :00
  • Clock chimes the hour
  • Clock strikes :15
  • Clock strikes :30
  • Clock strikes :45
  • Safari download(s) begin
  • Safari download(s) ended
  • You plug in your laptop
  • You unplug your laptop
  • You pull down a menu
  • You exit a menu
  • You press SHIFT
  • You release SHIFT
  • You press CAPSLOCK
  • You release CAPSLOCK
  • sonorOS starts up
  • Mouse is dragged
  • Mouse is clicked
  • Mouse is released
  • Your Mac wakes up
  • Your Mac is idle
  • An application launches
  • An application quits
  • An application activates / deactivates
  • An application hides / unhides
  • You press fn
  • You release fn
  • You press ctrl
  • You release ctrl
  • You press alt/option
  • You release alt/option
  • You press cmd/command
  • You release cmd/command
  • You quit sonorOS

Support

Help is at hand should you need it. If you can’t find an answer to your problem in the sonorOS Help or FAQ, get in touch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions? We’ve got answers. Whether it’s a technical hurdle you’d like to overcome or you’re after basic info, check the sonorOS FAQ.

System Requirements

sonorOS requires a 64-bit Mac running at least macOS 10.14 (Mojave).