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KIBA

KIBA is an $8.99 menu bar recorder for Mac. One click grabs anything your Mac plays, and a trimmer drops down so you can save a clean WAV or drag it straight into your DAW.

Fact sheet

Name: KIBA (牙, "fang" in Japanese)
What it is: Menu bar audio recorder and sampler for Mac
Price: $8.99 one-time · first 10 samples free · up to 2 Macs
Requires: macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Developer: Independent, based in Tbilisi, Georgia
Website: kibagang.com
Contact: Email address coming soon

Key features

One click: the menu bar icon records and stops. ⌥⌘R works from anywhere.
No routing: no virtual driver, no Multi-Output Device, and your sound output never changes.
Record one app: right-click the icon and pick any open app. ⌥-click opens KIBA.
Stays out of the way: a fixed-size icon that sits at the right of the menu bar, and an optional setting that pauses Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud the moment you stop recording.
Trim in place: silence auto-trimmed, pinch to zoom, play and loop the selection, drag the edges, 3 ms fades on every cut (adjustable).
WAV out: 48 kHz, 24-bit by default (16-bit or 32-bit float in Settings), peak normalized to −0.3 dB.
Drag and drop into your DAW or the Finder; recent samples one click away.
Private: no account, no analytics. Audio never leaves the Mac.

Descriptions

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KIBA is an $8.99 menu bar recorder for Mac. One click grabs anything your Mac plays, and a trimmer drops down so you can save a clean WAV or drag it straight into your DAW.

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KIBA is a menu bar recorder for Mac. Click the icon to record anything your Mac plays, from a video, a website or any app, with no BlackHole or routing. Click again and a trimmer drops down with the silence already cut. Save the WAV or drag it into your DAW or the Finder. $8.99 once; the first 10 samples are free.

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Sampling from your own Mac usually means installing a virtual audio driver, building a Multi-Output Device and recording inside your DAW. KIBA replaces all of that with one click in the menu bar. It records everything your Mac plays, or a single app, using the audio capture built into macOS, so nothing is installed and your sound settings never change.

When you stop, a trimmer drops down right under the menu bar. Silence is already trimmed and the peak is set to −0.3 dB. Pinch to zoom, loop the selection, drag the edges, then press Return to save or drag the waveform straight into your DAW or the Finder. Recent samples sit in the same panel, ready to drag, copy or reveal in the Finder.

KIBA costs $8.99 once (the first 10 samples are free) and runs on macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.