Beamhook — media keys, hooked to the app you meant

Hook media keys to:

Spotify

✓Spotify<br>✓Apple Music<br>✓Apple TV<br>✓Safari<br>✓Chrome<br>✓Brave<br>✓Arc<br>✓Vivaldi<br>✓VLC<br>✓VOX<br>✓QuickTime Player<br>✓Downcast

SpotifyHooked

Volume keys

SafariHook

＋ Add apps using AppleScript

Launch at login

Beamhook<br>Quit

Beamhook

Hook your media keys to a specific app.

Hook your Mac's media and volume keys to an app you choose – and prevent macOS from redirecting them to the random player it remembers.

Get the app<br>€5 · one time

The signed & notarized, ready-to-run app with all Beamhook 1.x updates. Same complete app as the source; your purchase supports continued development.

Get it on Gumroad

Or build it yourself<br>free · open source

The code’s open — you can see exactly what handles your keystrokes. Clone it and build in one step; the README has the details.

Found a bug, or an app you'd like supported? Please open an issue on GitHub — whether you bought the app or built it yourself.

Help<br>GitHub ↗<br>Issues ↗<br>GPL-3.0

macOS 14.0+ · tested on Tahoe 26.5 · Apple Silicon & Intel