Most audio routing tools let a user send sound to multiple devices but treat every one of them the same way.
Re-Q takes a different approach. The menu bar tool for macOS lets users route audio to multiple outputs at once while giving each output its own EQ, resampling, and effects chain, rather than applying a single blanket setting across every connected device.
Solving a problem people just live with
Anyone who has plugged headphones into one output and speakers into another knows the tradeoff: whichever EQ curve or effect gets applied has to work for both, even though headphones and speakers rarely need the same treatment. Re-Q removes that compromise by treating each output as its own independent signal path, so a user can shape headphone audio one way and speaker audio another, at the same time, from the same source.
The tool lives quietly in the menu bar, which keeps the control surface out of the way while still making per-output adjustments accessible whenever they are needed.
Re-Q recently climbed the Product Hunt rankings, drawing attention from users who route audio across multiple setups and have grown used to picking one output and sticking with it because switching, or compromising on sound quality, was the only other option.
Keegan, the founder behind Re-Q, built the tool around that specific gap: audio routing software that assumes every output should sound the same is easy to find, but software that treats each output as worth shaping on its own terms is not. Re-Q was designed to close that gap directly, giving users control at the level where it actually matters, the individual output, instead of the system as a whole.
For anyone working across multiple audio devices, whether that is switching between headphones and monitors, streaming to one output while monitoring on another, or managing a more complex multi-device setup, the ability to independently EQ and process each destination changes how much manual adjustment is needed day to day. Re-Q is available at req-audio.com.
