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A green or red dot with a mic icon. The smallest option.
MuteDot mutes every microphone on your computer with one keyboard shortcut, and keeps a small indicator on screen that shows when your mic is on.
For Windows 10/11 and Linux
Demo: the MuteDot indicator shows LIVE in green. Pressing Ctrl, Shift and M flips it to MUTED in red.
Every call app has its own mute button, and none of them agree with each other or with your computer. That's how people get caught talking on a "muted" call.
MuteDot skips the apps and mutes the microphones themselves, at the system level. If a call app quietly picks a different mic, it gets silence too.
A green or red dot with a mic icon. The smallest option.
The dot with LIVE or MUTED written next to it. This is the default.
A larger version of the pill, easier to read from across a room or on a stream.
This is MuteDot's Settings window, with every option the app has.
Press the mute button on your headset or change it in system settings, and MuteDot catches up within half a second.
The rest lives in the system tray: your mic status, mute, show or lock the indicator, and Settings.
$ mutedot --status muted $ mutedot --toggle $ mutedot --status live
There's also --mute, --unmute and --settings. Bind them to a Stream Deck button or a desktop shortcut.
MuteDot v0.1.0Mutes every microphone, not just the default one.
MuteDot
$6once
Windows 10/11 · Linux (X11 and Wayland)
Yes. MuteDot mutes the microphone itself, so every app hears silence, including ones that aren't on that list.
The app's own mute button doesn't know about MuteDot, so it can say you're unmuted while MuteDot has the microphone muted. Nothing gets through. Go by the MuteDot indicator.
No. There's no account, no license key and no telemetry. It works completely offline.
All of your own. Buy once, download, and install it on every computer you use.
Yes, on both X11 and Wayland. Wayland doesn't let apps grab global keys, so you bind mutedot --toggle to a key in your desktop's settings. Push-to-talk isn't available on Wayland.
Yes. Within 30 days, no questions asked. See the refund policy.
No. The 30-day money-back guarantee covers you instead. If MuteDot isn't for you, you get your $6 back.