Budsy — Galaxy Buds controls for your Mac

A lightweight, native macOS menu-bar app for Samsung Galaxy Buds. Connect over Bluetooth and control noise cancellation, ambient sound, the equalizer, touch gestures, find-my-earbuds, and more — without leaving your menu bar.

Budsy was previously called "Galaxy Buds for Mac" — same app, new name.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Samsung. "Galaxy Buds" is a trademark of Samsung Electronics.

Screenshots

Menu bar quick panel	Settings
Sound & ANC	Earbud controls

Features

• Menu-bar quick panel — battery for each earbud, listen mode (Off / Ambient / Adaptive / ANC), ANC strength, and equalizer at a glance.
• Sound & ANC — ANC strength, ambient volume, custom ambient (per-side level + tone), detect conversations, sidetone, ambient during calls.
• Earbud controls — touch-and-hold action per side, noise-control cycle, touchpad lock.
• Find My Earbuds — ring both buds, mute one side while you search.
• Firmware — checks the community archive of Samsung's official builds and installs a newer one over Bluetooth.
• About / Diagnostics — software version, serial numbers, earbud fit test, and a copyable connection log for bug reports. The app also logs to the unified log under the com.nivorbit.budsy subsystem (Console.app).
• Auto-connect when the buds connect, and Launch at login.
• Localized in 11 languages — follows your Mac's language.

Supports Galaxy Buds through Buds4 Pro.

Install

Homebrew

brew tap vedatkilic/tap
brew trust vedatkilic/tap   # Homebrew requires trusting third-party taps once
brew install --cask vedatkilic/tap/budsy

Manual

1. Download the latest Budsy-<version>.dmg from Releases.
2. Open it and drag Budsy into Applications.
3. Launch it. The earbud icon appears in your menu bar.

First launch (unsigned app)

The app is open-source and not signed with an Apple Developer certificate, so macOS Gatekeeper blocks it the first time. To allow it:

• Right-click the app → Open → Open, or
• System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the message about "Budsy", and click Open Anyway.

You'll also be asked to allow Bluetooth access — required to talk to the earbuds.

Build from source

Requires Swift 6 / Xcode Command Line Tools on macOS 14+.

git clone https://github.com/vedatkilic/budsy.git
cd budsy
bash build.sh        # builds Budsy.app (ad-hoc signed)
open Budsy.app

Package a distributable disk image:

bash package.sh 1.0.0   # → dist/Budsy-1.0.0.dmg

Xcode project (signing, App Store)

The Xcode project is generated from project.yml with XcodeGen and isn't committed:

brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate     # → Budsy.xcodeproj

Two configurations: Release (Developer ID, hardened runtime, full feature set) and AppStore (sandboxed, APPSTORE flag — the firmware updater is left out of the Mac App Store build). The Budsy scheme archives for the App Store; Budsy (Developer ID) archives for direct distribution. Set your team under Signing & Capabilities.

For App Review, open budsy://demo puts the app in a demo mode with a stand-in connected device so every screen can be exercised without Galaxy Buds.

How it works

The app speaks the Galaxy Buds SPP/RFCOMM control protocol directly over IOBluetooth. All UI is SwiftUI; the menu-bar item and windows are AppKit. No third-party dependencies.

Privacy & transparency

• Fully open-source (MIT) — the entire codebase is in this repository.
• No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry, no network calls. The app only communicates with your earbuds over Bluetooth.
• One permission: Bluetooth, required to talk to the buds. Nothing else.
• No account, no ads, no paid tiers — it's free.
• Built by an independent developer; not affiliated with Samsung.

License

MIT