Comparison

OmniMac vs FineTune

FineTune does one thing (Sound). OmniMac does it and adds six more modules in the same app. Here are the facts, no adjectives: usage measured on the same Mac, what each does better and when to pick one or the other.

The facts

FineTune 1.9.0OmniMac 0.5.1
What it doesPer-app audio control: individual volume, an equaliser with saved presets, routing to devices and correction profiles for headphones.Seven modules: keep awake, ⌘Tab by windows, dynamic notch, window shortcuts, clipboard, tools (OCR, colour, keyboard, microphone) and sound
Price and codeFree (donation-supported)Free, open source (MIT), no accounts, no telemetry
Memory at idle (RSS)116 MB86 MB (33–37 MB of real physical memory)
CPU at idle0.000 %0.017–0.033 %
Size on disk11 MB16 MB
Threads at idle66
RequirementsmacOS (see its site)macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon and Intel

What FineTune does that OmniMac doesn't

  • AutoEQ correction profiles per headphone model, with a downloadable catalogue
  • Loudness compensation: lifts the bass at low volume
  • Locking the input device so macOS can't switch it on its own
  • A notice when a device disconnects, and media-key control
  • Saving and renaming your own equaliser presets

What OmniMac adds

  • A 10-band equaliser with nine ready-made presets, global or per app
  • Boost up to 400 % with a peak limiter
  • The mixer and the equaliser from the notch too, and standalone on ⌃⌥⌘V
  • Output priority: plug in headphones and they take over on their own
  • Plus the other ten features in the same process

When to pick each

How it was measured

Each app on its own on the same Apple silicon MacBook running macOS 26.5, on 9 September 2026, 50 s at idle with the cursor away from the notch after 15 s of startup. CPU = CPU time consumed divided by elapsed time (ps -o cputime); memory = RSS (ps -o rss); OmniMac's real physical memory (footprint) is 33–37 MB in the 0.5.1 measurement. One run: think orders of magnitude, not decimals. Full methodology and results in docs/PERFORMANCE.md (Spanish); the feature inventory in docs/COMPETENCIA.md.

Try OmniMac

Download OmniMac.pkgSee the code on GitHub

Free, no accounts. macOS 14.2 or later. Also brew install --cask BySergiMM/tap/omnimac.