What Just Pinged Me?

Find out what made that sound

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Something on your Mac just made a noise. What was it? What Just Pinged Me? sits in your menu bar and listens, so when a sound catches you off guard you can find out what caused it — and hear it again. WHAT IT TELLS YOU • Web pages — not just "Safari", but the title and address of the tab that actually played the sound. • Mac apps — the app responsible, even when it plays through a helper process you have never heard of. • System notifications — alert sounds and Notification Center pings, told apart from everything else. • Background processes — scripts and command-line tools, right down to the sound file they were told to play. PLAY IT BACK Every sound is recorded as it happens, so you can listen again instead of trying to remember what you heard. Repeats from the same source fold into a single entry with a count, so one chatty app cannot bury everything else. OUT OF THE WAY It lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon, starts listening the moment it launches, and stays quiet until you click it. YOUR SOUNDS STAY YOURS Recordings never leave your Mac. There is no account, no analytics, and no network connection of any kind — the app does not know how to talk to the internet. Clear the history whenever you like. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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The one question browsers refuse to answer, answered. • A new optional browser extension reports which tab is ACTUALLY playing sound, so web audio is named by the audible tab, not the tab in front. Safari's version ships inside the app — switch it on in Safari Settings → Extensions, nothing to install. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Chromium set up from the new "Browser extension" window. When the extension confirms a tab, the sound's details say so and its attribution reads Identified. • Sounds nobody can name are now at least recognised. The app remembers unidentified sounds between launches and says "the same sound as 25 earlier times, usually from the same app" — which, in testing against two days of real captures, explained every repeating mystery on the Mac. • The matcher now works for background processes, not just system alerts, and no longer refuses to answer when macOS ships the identical sound file under two different names. • "Check for updates" in the footer opens this page. Nothing leaves your Mac: the extension talks only to the app, and the app still makes no network connections of any kind.

The developer, KELLY DORNHAUS GAMES LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Provider
    • KELLY DORNHAUS GAMES LLC
    Size
    • 1.1 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Kelly Dornhaus Games LLC