NoNoise Mac vs SoliCall Noise Firewall

NoNoise Mac is a free macOS menu-bar app that reduces microphone background noise and room echo in real time. It uses DeepFilterNet3 compiled to CoreML, with audio processing on the Apple Neural Engine and Metal. Meeting, Podcast, Tutorial, and Custom modes provide suppression and voice-polish controls. Optional Broadcast Voice adds presence and de-essing, while Mouth Noise targets plosives and clicks.

The app sends cleaned microphone audio through its NoNoise Mic virtual microphone for use in apps such as Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBS, Slack, and QuickTime. Clean Incoming / Guest can denoise system audio, but requires macOS 14.4 or later. The project says audio stays on the Mac, with no telemetry or account. It supports built-in, USB, and XLR microphones via an interface, along with global hotkeys and a bundled CLI for local audio-file cleanup. NoNoise Mac requires an Apple Silicon Mac such as M1 or newer; Intel Macs are not supported. Its installer is not notarized and may require approval in macOS Privacy & Security settings.

SoliCall Noise Firewall is software for call centers and other crowded workspaces that reduces ambient noise and nearby voices so customers are less likely to overhear other conversations. It can remove background voices from agents and supervisors as well as other ambient sounds. SoliCall says the noise reduction can improve transcription and other voice analytics accuracy. The product correlates audio across calls to produce a Noise Map and statistics for finding noisy agents and monitoring call quality. A browser-based dashboard provides live call statistics and aggregated statistics for completed calls. Deployment can be centralized or distributed, and the product can run on-premise without a cloud connection; SoliCall says monitoring data stays on-premise rather than being sent to its cloud servers. SoliCall Connect works with Windows softphones and browser-based softphones, including WebRTC options. PBXMate for Call Centers connects to telephony infrastructure over SIP as a phone proxy or PBX trunk. Pricing is available by contacting SoliCall, which invites prospective customers to request an evaluation version of PBXMate for Call Centers.