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PlugTalk makes your Mac talk back when you plug things in.

PlugTalk is a tiny macOS menu bar app that plays a custom sound for every USB plug and unplug, and shows live USB speed, power draw, and storage usage at a glance. Built for Apple Silicon, one-time $6.99, free 7-day trial.

PlugTalk turns USB events on your Mac into sound. Plug in a drive, hear a pop. Pull a cable, hear a different pop. Eighteen built-in sound packs cover everything from retro arcade to clean modern UI clicks, and you can drop in your own MP3s. The menu bar popover shows every connected USB device and external display with live speed and power badges, an 8-segment storage usage bar, per-device mute and rename, and hub-aware grouping. Built natively for Apple Silicon, no Electron, idles at 0% CPU because it is event-driven through IOKit. One-time payment of $6.99, free 7-day trial, lifetime Sparkle updates.

PlugTalk is a macOS menu bar utility that makes the workspace around your Mac audible. Every USB or Thunderbolt plug and unplug triggers a sound, picked from eighteen built-in packs or your own MP3 uploads. It is a small joy that turns the otherwise silent ritual of cable management into something you actually look forward to. Underneath the playful surface, PlugTalk is a real diagnostic tool. The menu bar popover shows every connected USB device and external display, with live USB speed (USB 2.0, 3.x, 3.2 Gen 2x2) and power draw badges, an 8-segment color bar for storage usage, per-device mute, rename, and sound pack rules, and hub-aware grouping that collapses dock infrastructure into a single row. Per-device rules let you mute boring keyboards, name your favorite dock, or assign a unique sound pack to a specific VID:PID combination. A connection log keeps the last 50 events per device with timestamps. External displays plugged through HDMI, DisplayPort, or USB-C are detected and announced just like USB devices. PlugTalk is built natively in Swift for Apple Silicon, uses IOKit notifications so idle CPU is 0%, and ships with Sparkle for EdDSA-signed auto-updates. License storage lives in your Keychain, with no daily phone-home. One-time $6.99 buys lifetime updates for up to three Macs, with a 7-day free trial up front and a 7-day refund window after purchase.