I use my AirPods with my iPhone and Mac extensively but was always disappointed that the "seamless switching" would not automatically pick the audio source to use with my AirPods. To ease the pain of manually switching bluetooth devices on Mac I created this small utility to allow to force connect to my AirPods on my Mac from a tap on the menubar.
About AirBar on Product Hunt
“Connect to your AirPods in a click”
AirBar launched on Product Hunt on October 5th, 2018 and earned 458 upvotes and 72 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. I use my AirPods with my iPhone and Mac extensively but was always disappointed that the "seamless switching" would not automatically pick the audio source to use with my AirPods. To ease the pain of manually switching bluetooth devices on Mac I created this small utility to allow to force connect to my AirPods on my Mac from a tap on the menubar.
On the analytics side, AirBar competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 765.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how AirBar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted AirBar?
AirBar was hunted by Rainer Selvet. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of AirBar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Rainer Selvet