Using Tutti

Download Tutti, double-click the DMG, and drag it into Applications — it's signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens straight away. Your free 7-day trial starts automatically the first time you open it, with every feature unlocked. No account, no card.

Tutti Pro is a one-time $12.99 — no subscription — and one license covers one Mac. It unlocks the features marked Pro throughout this guide (the full Free vs Pro comparison is on the home page). Checkout is handled by Dodo Payments, and your license key is emailed right afterward.

Once you have your license key, open Tutti's Settings → License, paste it in, and activate. You need to be online for this one step so it can verify with the payment provider; after that, Pro stays unlocked.

Your license covers one Mac at a time. To move it, open Settings → License on a Mac you no longer use and deactivate — that frees a slot instantly — then activate on the new Mac. There is no waiting period.

Not for you? Email within 14 days for a no-questions-asked refund; a successful refund releases your license automatically. Dodo Payments handles receipts and invoices — reply to your receipt email, or write in if you need a formal invoice.

Tick a few speakers in the menu bar panel and Tutti plays the same sound through all of them together — no Audio MIDI Setup, no configuration. Reach for this when you want music in the kitchen and the living room at once, or every speaker going at a party. Open the panel and click each device you want; click again to drop one.

Add or remove a speaker in the middle of a song and the sound keeps playing without a pause; a Bluetooth speaker that briefly drops out rejoins on its own. Use it when you carry a portable speaker from room to room, or when a flaky Bluetooth link keeps cutting out. There is nothing to switch on — just tick or untick devices while audio is playing.

Per-app output routes each app to a different speaker — keep a video call on the laptop while music fills the room from the big speakers. Use it when different apps belong in different places. Hover an app in the panel, open its output menu, and pick where it should play. Driver-free on macOS 14.4 and later.

Tell Tutti to leave certain apps alone — browsers, chat apps, anything you don't want cluttering the panel or being routed. Use it to keep the app list short and focused on what you actually control. Right-click any app in the panel and choose to ignore it; bring it back any time from the bottom of the list.

One master slider sets the level for everything at once, and each speaker gets its own slider underneath. Use it to pull one speaker down without touching the rest, or mute a single device while the others keep playing. Open the panel and drag the master at the top or any device's slider below it.

Give each app its own volume — turn a game down while you talk, or pull one app to silence without muting the rest. Use it when one app is drowning out the others. Hover the app in the panel and drag its slider. On macOS 14.4 and later this works with no audio driver to install.

Some monitors show a lock and won't let macOS change their volume; Tutti drives their built-in speakers directly with a real slider. Use it if your display's speakers were stuck at a fixed level. Find the display in the device list and use its slider like any other. (Apple-silicon Macs.)

The volume keys and mouse wheel adjust the whole selected group, while the HUD shows every output or display and its result. In Settings → Control → Adjustment Step, set a Default Step or give individual outputs and displays their own step; Shift+Option uses one quarter of it for fine adjustment. Hover one device, app, or microphone to scroll only that target. You can also turn scroll adjustment off without disabling sliders or keys.

Right-click Tutti’s menu bar icon and choose Mute All or Unmute All. Left-click the icon to open or close the full control panel.

Display Control is available on macOS 15 and later and appears in the panel by default. Click a display to add or remove it from the brightness group; at least one controllable display stays selected. Use the top slider for the group, or the slider below a display for that screen alone. If you hid the card, turn it back on in Settings → Panel. Its brightness engine builds on the open-source Crisp project, with thanks to didriksg and its contributors.

On macOS 15+, expand a display to choose resolution, existing HiDPI modes and refresh rate. Drag to preview resolution; release to apply. Keep the new mode within 15 seconds or Tutti restores the original; you can also restore manually. While confirmation or recovery is pending, mode and main-display controls are locked. Set as Main Display takes effect immediately. These controls are free and local only, without presets, Remote, shortcuts or automation.

At night, even minimum brightness can feel too bright. On supported displays with Brightness Upscaling turned off, drag the display’s brightness slider below 15% to use Extra Dim. At 0%, the image becomes fully black—for example, when you want a secondary screen dark while using your main screen. This does not power off or disconnect the display. To bring the image back, raise that display’s brightness. Before making your only screen black, set up and test its brightness-increase shortcut in Settings → Shortcuts. With another visible screen, you can also use the Tutti panel there to raise its slider. Availability depends on the display and connection. Extra Dim can affect HDR and color accuracy; return to 15% or above for color-critical work. Extra Dim and Brightness Upscaling cannot be enabled together.

Outdoors or beside a bright window, maximum brightness may still be hard to read. Brightness Upscaling uses available headroom on eligible displays to brighten the image. In Tutti 1.11.0 on macOS 15 or later, click the sun button beside a compatible display in the Displays card, then drag that display’s own brightness slider above 100%. Pro or an active trial is required. Each screen keeps its own enablement and level. 100% is Neutral; Extra Dim and Upscaling cannot be active together.

Tutti 1.11.0 retains the existing XDR compatibility list and also checks eligible built-in and external HDR displays for available EDR headroom. Testing includes visible gain on MacBook Neo and an R5 connected through a working Hub, plus XDR Gamma and Metal feedback. This does not certify every display, adapter or lifecycle scenario. Connections can change availability; no fixed physical brightness multiplier is promised. Built-in model identifiers: MacBookPro18,1–18,4; Mac14,5/6/9/10; Mac15,3/6/7/8/9/10/11; Mac16,1/5/6/7/8; Mac17,2/6/7/8/9. Recognized external displays: Pro Display XDR; Studio Display XDR (Apple 0x0610: 0xAE21, 0xAE22, 0xAE23, 0xAE2D, 0xAE2E, 0xAE2F, 0xAE42, 0xAE43).

Settings → Control → Advanced Display Settings chooses Gamma or Metal for compatible XDR displays only. Other eligible built-in displays automatically use Metal; eligible external displays use Gamma and may need HDR enabled. The XDR choice does not change those routes. Waiting for EDR is not HDR-content detection.

Save a preset with the display selected to remember its Upscaling switch and level, including enabled at 100% Neutral. Applying it restores the scene; a disconnected display keeps the scene until it reconnects. A newer display command takes precedence. Group brightness, brightness keys, direct brightness shortcuts, Remote, automation, Brightness Following and scrolling stay within 100%; only the display’s own slider or an explicitly saved preset restores the Upscaling range.

Upscaling can change HDR content and color accuracy. Tutti does not detect HDR content or turn Upscaling off automatically. For color-critical work, turn it off with the display’s sun button; returning the slider to 100% also restores Neutral. Turning Upscaling off or quitting Tutti removes its image adjustment.

Expand the built-in display and turn on Follow Built-in Display. Selected external displays then move by the same amount, keeping the brightness difference you set between them. This also lets them follow ambient-light changes when automatic brightness is enabled in macOS.

After Accessibility access is granted, the keyboard brightness keys control the displays selected in Tutti and show Tutti's progress HUD. Hover the group or one display and scroll to adjust that target; Shift+Option gives a finer key step. Custom brightness shortcuts are available with Pro under Settings → Shortcuts. If Tutti cannot safely take over a key press, macOS keeps handling it.

Presets save the selected displays and each brightness, then restore available displays when applied; a disconnected display rejoins when it returns. Tutti Remote 1.1.0 adds a Displays page for selecting displays and changing individual or group brightness from iPhone. Both require Tutti Pro, and Display Control must be enabled on the Mac.

Select at least two output devices, then click the stereo icon at the top of Tutti's panel to turn on Tutti Theater. The Output section opens automatically; use the L/R badge on each selected device to assign one speaker Left and the other Right. Tutti Theater turns separate speakers into one stereo pair, with the left and right channels playing from different devices instead of every device playing the same mix. Wired, display, and Bluetooth speakers all work. While the mode is active, macOS may show “Tutti Theater” as the current output; Tutti creates and manages it automatically, so you do not need to select it yourself.

If a speaker sits off to one side, lean its sound left or right with a per-speaker balance slider so the stereo image stays centered on you. Use it when your speakers aren't symmetric around your seat. Adjust the balance slider for that device; presets remember it, alongside latency tuning.

If one speaker plays later than the others, add delay to the faster outputs until they line up with it. Tutti can delay an output, but cannot make a slower Bluetooth path play sooner. Adjust each faster device by ear; Tutti remembers the setting. This may increase the overall audio delay relative to video. Tutti can compensate for a relatively stable time difference by delaying the faster output. It cannot make a slower Bluetooth speaker play sooner. Some Bluetooth devices may fall out of sync after a track change, pause/resume, reconnection or during continuous playback, even when the saved setting stays the same. If adjustment does not hold, try a wired connection or use one output. Neither restoring a saved setting nor a one-time calibration guarantees ongoing synchronization.

Some apps are simply too quiet; Turbo gives one app a 2× boost so it carries over everything else. Use it when a video or game is faint even at full volume. Hover the app in the panel and switch Turbo on. Driver-free on macOS 14.4 and later.

Shape bass, mids, and treble for any single app right in the panel, or apply a built-in preset. Use it to warm up thin laptop speakers or tame harsh audio from one app without affecting the others. Open the app's EQ in the panel and adjust the bands. Driver-free on macOS 14.4 and later.

When a video, meeting, or call starts playing sound, Tutti fades your music out and pauses it, then fades it back in exactly where you left off. Use it so you never have to scramble to pause your music when a call comes in. Turn it on once; it works with Spotify and Apple Music.

Bluetooth headphones normally drop to muffled call-quality audio during a meeting and stay that way; turn this on and Tutti uses your Mac's built-in mic instead, so your headphones keep full sound quality. Use it if music sounds flat after a video call. Enable it and Tutti handles the switch for you.

Apps and macOS sometimes change your output, mic, or volume. Device Guard restores your choices. Changes made in Tutti become the new choice; automatic switches when a device connects still follow output priority. Free and off by default.

Rank outputs under Lock output device. After an automatic switch, Tutti returns to the top available device. Put AirPods first to use them whenever connected; otherwise it uses the next device. To choose case by case, leave this lock off.

Lock input device stops meeting apps like Zoom from quietly switching your microphone mid-call, and Lock volume restores your level when an app cranks it up or drops it to zero. Each time Device Guard puts something back, a brief notice appears on screen so you know what happened; turn that off with "Show a notice when devices are auto-adjusted" in the Appearance tab.

Save a whole setup — which speakers are on, plus each app's volume and output — and recall it in one tap, switching freely between music, movies, and work. Use it to jump between a party setup and a focus setup instantly. Arrange the panel the way you want, then save it as a preset; each one gets its own emoji so they're easy to tell apart.

Control Tutti from the Shortcuts app, by asking Siri, or straight from Spotlight — switch presets, mute, or set the volume, and wire it into your own automations. Use it to trigger a setup from a hotkey, a routine, or your voice. Add Tutti's actions in Shortcuts, or just start typing a command in Spotlight.

Set hotkeys that fire in any app — no need to bring Tutti to the front. Bind keys for the panel, the master output, the playing app, any specific app or device, and individual presets. Use it to mute everything the moment a call starts, or nudge the music without leaving what you're doing. Open Settings → Shortcuts, click an action, and press the keys you want.

Use Raycast? Tutti's actions show up there too — set the volume, toggle mute, or apply a preset straight from Raycast, with no setup. Reach for it if Raycast is already your launcher. Just start typing an action like "Set Volume" and run it; it's the same set of commands Tutti gives Shortcuts and Spotlight.

Put your output status and devices on the desktop or in Notification Center, and adjust volume, mute, output, or presets without opening the app. Use it if you change setups often and want them one glance away. Add Tutti's widget from the widget gallery and pick the size you like.

Turn the panel's cards on or off and drag them into your preferred order. Outputs, Apps, Input, and Displays can each follow the Popup Size or stay fixed at One Line or Two Lines. Open Settings → Control, then use the layout button beside the card's visibility switch; the choice applies immediately and is kept separately for each card. While Settings is in front, the real menu panel appears beside it as a live preview when space permits. Switching to another app hides the preview and keeps Settings open; returning restores your editing context. Clicking the menu-bar icon returns to background Settings or closes the foreground Settings interaction.

Give any output a friendlier name and tuck away the ones you never use, keeping the list short. Use it when system device names are cryptic or you have outputs you never touch. Rename or hide from the device's menu; hidden ones come back any time from the bottom of the list.

Set a timer and Tutti pauses playback and gently fades every speaker to silent when it runs out — no music playing to an empty room all night. Use it to fall asleep to music without leaving it on till morning. Pick a duration in the panel and let it count down.

The default Tutti icon uses a sun and sound-wave design. Its waves reflect volume; mute uses the flat-wave shape in red. An unmuted volume of 0% does not turn it red. Choose the icon in Settings → Appearance. The default is free. Instrument icons unlock with multi-output listening time; Pro unlocks them all immediately.

First, skim the existing issues — someone may have hit the same thing. If it's a crash or odd behavior, open Settings → About, click the Tutti logo ten times to turn on Diagnostics mode (it records only device and runtime status, never any audio), reproduce the problem, then tap Export log file below and email the file to support. Send it by email rather than posting it in a public issue — the log can contain local file paths.

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