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Loopback is a great tool for anyone working with audio on the Mac

Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback for macOS is a useful tool for enabling audio routing between applications and audio devices on your Mac. In just a few clicks, you can easily pass audio directly between apps.

Loopback’s virtual audio devices will be instantly familiar to those who’ve used the open-source tool Soundflower in the past, but Rogue Amoeba’s app offers more. It can capture audio from just one app — or a whole set of apps and devices, all with just a few clicks to configure.

Loopback is a great tool for anyone working with audio on the Mac, from podcasters to gamers, Internet radio hosts to regular folks chatting via Skype. Here are just a few examples of what Loopback can help you: play audio to all podcast guests; create screencasts; combine multiple hardware devices; live stream a podcast; and record gameplay videos: 

Loopback requires macOS 10.9 or higher, with a free fully-functional demo version available on the Rogue Amoeba site. While in trial mode, the quality of audio passing through Loopback’s virtual devices will be degraded after 10 minutes. Loopback costs $99.

Apple World Today Rating (out of 5 stars): ★★★★★

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.