Afinar
Download Afinar.
Free for fourteen days, everything unlocked, no account and no card. It’s a normal Mac app: notarized, self-contained, and it updates itself.
macOS 14.4 or newer · Apple silicon and Intel
What you need.
A Mac on macOS 14.4 or newer, and something to play. That’s the whole list. Afinar for iPad is on the way.
A USB audio interface is what unlocks the good part, because it’s how your instrument gets in and how you hear yourself through an amp while you play. Anything class-compliant works. If you don’t own one yet, the built-in mic records real takes and gives you the whole loop to try before you spend money on gear.
What happens the first time you open it.
It opens ready to browse, and asks for nothing. Nothing runs in the background, and no permission is requested until the moment it’s actually needed.
The first time you set up recording there’s a short guided setup. It explains what it needs before macOS asks for anything, then measures your interface so your playing lands exactly where you played it instead of a fraction behind the music. That’s a one-time thing. Screen and system audio get asked for separately, the first time you record along to something playing in the browser.
Where your recordings live.
In a folder on your Mac that you can open from Settings. There’s no Afinar account, nothing syncs, and nothing is uploaded. If you want a recording somewhere else, you export it yourself.