Audio Hijack 4.4 Gains a New Installer-Free Setup

Big news: Audio Hijack has now been updated to provide our new installer-free setup on MacOS 14.4 and up. Just as we showed off last month with our recent Piezo update, you can now get started using Audio Hijack nearly instantly. There’s no need to restart your Mac, use Recovery mode, or even enter a password.
Just how fast is the new setup? See for yourself:

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In just seconds, you too can be recording audio on your Mac with Audio Hijack. It’s now incredibly easy to get started.
Additional Details

This update overhauls Audio Hijack’s audio capture backend, which was quite an undertaking. As a user, however, you shouldn’t see any differences when it comes to functionality. Audio Hijack is as powerful as ever, able to capture any audio on your Mac so you can create audio recordings, apply advanced audio effects, or even transcribe live audio to text.
Because the new backend requires MacOS 14.4, we’ve split Audio Hijack into two variants.1 But you don’t have to worry about a thing. The app automatically ensures you’re running the right variant for your version of MacOS, to make sure it just works.
Get the Latest Audio Hijack Now

If you’re already using Audio Hijack, just choose Check for Updates from the Audio Hijack menu to get the latest version for your system.
If you’re new to Audio Hijack, or haven’t used it recently, it’s simply never been easier to it try out. The Audio Hijack product page provides all the details, and enables you to download the free trial. As the video above shows, it’s a snap to get started recording any audio on your Mac.
Still More to Come

With this update, we’ve now brought installer-free setup to Piezo, Airfoil, and Audio Hijack. These apps now have our easiest first-run process ever. There’s still more to come, as we’re continuing to work on streamlining things for Loopback and SoundSource as well. Stay tuned for further updates!

Footnotes:

For MacOS 14.4 and higher, Audio Hijack 4.4.0 is the current version. On MacOS 11 through 14.3.1, Audio Hijack 4.3.3 is used. These two variants of the app function identically. ↩︎