Chirpy press kit
Chirpy is a native Mac menu bar app that plays a chosen sound when a matching notification banner appears. It covers Slack channels, individual senders, keywords, and any app that posts to Notification Center, so you can tell #incidents from a Notion comment without looking at the screen. I'm Danilo Znamerovszkij, and I build it on my own in Barcelona. The numbers below are the current ones. A different price or macOS version somewhere else is out of date.
Licence for coverage: the screenshots and the app icon on this page are free to use in articles, videos, newsletters, and reviews, edited or cropped as you need. No permission required. A link back to chirpy.pro is appreciated.
Fast facts
| Product | Chirpy — a macOS menu bar app, current version 3.0.1 |
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| What it does | Plays a different notification sound per Mac app, Slack channel, sender, or keyword, with AND/OR matching, rule priority, and per-rule volume. |
| Maker | Danilo Znamerovszkij, solo developer, Barcelona, Spain |
| Requirements | macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Universal Binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, notarized by Apple, 7.8 MB. |
| Price | $19.99 USD, one-time. No subscription, and all future updates are included. |
| Trial | Free 3-day trial of the full app, no credit card. |
| Refund | 30-day money-back guarantee. |
| Licence | Per person, covering the Macs you personally use. Teams buy one licence per person. |
| How to get it | Direct download from chirpy.pro. Gumroad is the merchant of record for checkout and licence keys. Updates ship through Sparkle. Not on the Mac App Store, because the Accessibility API it depends on is incompatible with App Store sandboxing. |
| Sounds | 72+ built-in sounds, plus your own MP3, WAV, or CAF files. |
| Permissions | Accessibility only, never Screen Recording. Chirpy reads the text already visible in Notification Center banners and matches it against your rules on the Mac. It doesn't talk to the Slack, Teams, or Discord APIs, and notification content never leaves the machine. |
| Sales and coverage | 426+ sales through Gumroad. Chirpy 3.0 was featured on Product Hunt. The guide directory documents the notification settings of 118 Mac apps. |
| Press contact | [email protected] |
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Chirpy is a native Mac menu bar app that plays a chosen sound when a matching notification banner appears.
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Chirpy is a native Mac menu bar app that plays a chosen sound when a matching notification banner appears. Rules match on the app, the Slack channel, the sender, or a keyword, so
#incidentsand a Notion comment don't sound the same. Matching happens on the Mac, with no messaging APIs involved. macOS 13 or later, $19.99 once, made by one developer in Barcelona.
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Chirpy is a native Mac menu bar app that plays a chosen sound when a matching notification banner appears. macOS lets you change one system-wide alert sound and mute an app, but it has no per-app sound setting; Chirpy adds that layer. Rules match on the app, Slack channel, sender, or keyword, and each one gets its own sound from 72+ built-ins or your own MP3, WAV, or CAF file. It reads the text already visible in notification banners through the macOS Accessibility API and matches it locally, so nothing leaves the Mac. macOS 13 or later, $19.99 once with all updates included, built by Danilo Znamerovszkij in Barcelona.
Story hooks
- macOS still has no per-app notification sound setting. You can change the one system alert sound and you can mute an app. You can't give Slack one sound and Calendar another. Apple Community threads have asked for it since 2016 and the answer is still no.
- It's a focus feature that happens to use sound. Hearing that the ping was #prod-alerts and not a Notion comment means you don't look at the screen, and looking costs you whatever you were holding in your head.
- I audited the notification settings of 118 Mac apps. Which apps expose a sound setting, which only offer on or off, which ignore Do Not Disturb. Six of the 118 have real sound controls. The guide directory and the per-app page are both built on that spreadsheet.
- Solo developer, pay once, everything on-device. One person writes the code and answers [email protected]. $19.99 once, no subscription, no accounts, and nothing about your notifications ever leaves your Mac. There are no investors, so Chirpy stays alive by people buying it.
One framing note for a review. Chirpy is about a quiet Mac with two or three sounds that mean something, not about making notifications louder — the setups people keep are the restrained ones.
The audit sits behind the per-app notification sound page and the 118 app-specific guides. If you want the raw per-app findings for a piece of your own, email me and I'll send them.
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- Social card (
/static/images/banner-v2.png) — PNG, 1350×650. The page's own og:image. - App icon (
/logo.png) — PNG, for use next to the product name. - App icon, alternate (
/logo2.png) — PNG, the second icon treatment. - Guide directory screenshot (
/guide.png) — PNG, the 118-app directory.
Review licences
Reviewing Chirpy? Email [email protected] and I'll send you a licence key, no conditions attached and no copy approval asked for. The free 3-day trial is the full app if you'd rather start there. I'll also answer technical questions about how the Accessibility matching works, including the parts that don't work.
Elsewhere on the site
- About: who builds Chirpy and how it's funded.
- Pricing: the canonical licence, refund, and reseller terms.
- Download: version, size, requirements, install steps.
- Per-app notification sounds on Mac: what macOS can and can't do natively.
- Guides: the 118-app directory.