Smart Mute
Listen to audio one tab at a time.
Tired of juggling multiple tabs blasting audio at the same time? Mute Background Audio Automatically with Smart Mute. Smart Mute ensures only one tab plays sound at a time, giving you full control over your browsing experience. Whether you're listening to music, watching videos, or working in silence, Smart Mute keeps your audio clean, focused, and interruption-free.
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🚨 Important Notes
> Smart Mute does not pause media--it only mutes tabs.
> Keyboard shortcuts and right-click controls are not available yet but are under consideration for future releases.
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🔊 Key Features
😎 Core Functionality - Mute Background Tabs Automatically
Never deal with overlapping audio again. Smart Mute lets only your active tab play sound while automatically muting all others. It's the easiest way to control audio playback across multiple tabs.
🔇 Silent Mode - Block All Browser Audio
Need complete silence? Silent Mode mutes all tabs in your browser, giving you a distraction-free environment. Perfect for work, study, or late-night browsing. Combine with the Whitelist feature to allow audio only from trusted sites.
📌 Exclude Pinned Tabs - Keep Essential Tabs Playing
Always want music or chat apps running in the background? Enable Exclude Pinned Tabs to allow pinned tabs to play sound--even when they're not in focus.
👍🏼 Whitelist - Let Favorite Sites Always Play Audio
Add trusted websites like YouTube, Spotify, or podcast platforms to your Whitelist. These sites will always be allowed to play audio, regardless of which tab is active.
🚫 Blacklist - Mute Annoying Sites by Default
Sick of websites that autoplay ads or videos? Add them to your Blacklist to ensure they stay muted every time you visit.
🚧 Remember Last Tab (Beta)
When your active tab stops playing audio, Smart Mute can automatically unmute the last tab that had sound. This intelligent feature improves your audio flow and ensures seamless transitions between tabs.
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⚙️ How Smart Mute Works
Smart Mute uses tab activity and real-time audio detection to manage which tab can play sound. It doesn't pause content--it simply mutes or unmutes audio based on your settings.
🔐 Privacy & Permissions
To enable Whitelist and Blacklist functionality, Smart Mute needs access to website URLs. This is used in real time only to compare against your configured list. No data is collected or stored.
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🔧 Additional Permissions Required
To enable Whitelist and Blacklist functionality, Smart Mute needs access to website URLs. This is used in real time only to compare against your configured list. No data is collected or stored.
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🤩 Why Users Love Smart Mute
✅ Prevents audio overload from multiple tabs
✅ Simple, intuitive controls
✅ Works seamlessly with YouTube, Spotify, and more
✅ Keeps your focus intact while multitasking
Latest reviews
I use this for Soundcloud and WhatsApp Web. It works perfectly when I listen to a voice message on WhatsApp, it automatically mutes the SoundCloud tab after the voice message is complete, it unmutes the SoundCloud automatically
Love it! It works well,and works seamlessly very nice would recommend,to those who just mute their tabs throgh right clicking on it,this might be a slightly faster way to mute them :)
I find the Smart Mute extension to be exceptionally well-designed, and its core functionality regarding audio management across multiple browser tabs is truly impressive. The ease of use and the overall effectiveness of the extension have significantly improved my browsing experience, making it a valuable tool for managing audio in a multi-tab environment.
I've enjoyed this extension so far. With the new update, however, there have been bugs with the new beta "remember last tab" feature. I have it off but it keeps trying to play the audio from my last tab. So whenever I pause youtube a twitch tab audio will begin playing even with the "remember last tab" feature turned off. Otherwise it's a great extension!
I love that I don't have to mess with anything. The tab unmutes or mutes when you click in and out of it. Love how simple that is! It's something you didn't know you needed :) Edit 5.9.25 -- Almost a year later and I'm still loving this extension so much. I had added a volume control extension and it did not work well with this extension, so I tried to see if there were any other ones that it would work with. I couldn't find any that were as amazing as this one so I just ended up removing the sound extension. Seriously this extension is perfect. YOU DONT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. You just download the extension and THATS IT. If, like me, you have multiple tabs open watching videos (for me its twitch), you literally just go to the tab you want to watch and the other tab automatically mutes. You dont have to click on the extension each time you switch tabs. What more could you ask for??
do we really have to pay for this?
Sorry to say, but the first sign, for me of a "bad app", is an application that immediately askes for (notedly a good review) but a review immediately, and so my question for ALL of you (corporations included) how can any one expect to get and therefore supply real reliable honest views about "said companies product" when dealing with a company who's first question to it's newest user (5 mins after sign up) is "How about giving us a great review?!" Based on... what? How politely you begged for the review? Because company's that ask immediately they don't want honesty; however, If they were, asking for an honest review I mean, they would give new user a chance to use the app first, wouldn't they!? 5 stars all the way! #weak
good app
I'm gonna try it soon but it should work .. | -
On Call Days, i can use Smart Mute to have silence.
This is pretty sweet.
its an absolute must have extension for people who use multiple tabs at a time...works smoothly
Smart Mute works as intended. There are a few times that it gets confused, but overall it's great.
must try for easy from typing.
Total must have
why is this application tracking what video files are played on different applications other than the browser. weird asf. can't play video files on non-browser apps whilst playing something in chrome. smfh
I love you
Been using Smart Mute for years and love it. Works great for when I have multiple Twitch streams open.
cool
5+ Stars!
Just installed this app...it is perfect, so far! A feature I would recommend, is to mute any other tabs when I click on the microphone symbol on Google Search (to do a Voice Search.) Thank you for this great extension!
5+ Stars! This "smart mute" extension is pure magic! I never knew how much I needed this until I had it. I'm the type of person who always has 50+ tabs open, and it used to drive me crazy trying to find the one playing music or a video so I could mute it and focus. The global media controls in Chrome helped, but this extension takes it to the next level. It's so seamless and intuitive – now I can mute tabs with a single click without even having to think about it. If you're like me and constantly battling tab overload, this extension is an absolute must-have!
Good! For future features, I would add something like: When you unmute a video, for example on Twitter/X, and then you manually mute the video, the tab with sound unmute again. This is specially good when you have a tab pinned with a radio/music background, and then you have to see a video/audio on your socials.
Incredible app! Been using it for years and is the best muting app there is. Thanks!
EDIT*** Version 6.0.6 seem to work like a charm!!! *** Firstly thanks for your great work, I've subscribed to a recurrent donation each month, you deserve it.11 I'm on 6.0.3, I'll try to give you the most information about my issue, I use 3 screen and keep running stream to monitor them and other reasons. When audio is playing in a tab, and I open another tab on another instance and get to a website that have audio, sound play for a second, then get muted and the last tab I was on get unmuted. This one is sketchy, it happens when I uncheck the "Enable Smart Mute" in the option, When I have audio playing on 3 twitch stream, if I manually mute them all and minimize the window. When I maximize the windows all audio tab from twitch get unmuted.
Hi, so far ver. 6.03 is working just fine. I appreciate your efforts. Thank You.. Oh, I had to delete my last review to post this. It seems if you already have a past review you can't post an update or comment or follow up. Anyway, thanks for your efforts.. Bany Ver 6.06 seems to work fine
Thank you for your transparency it's very helpful as a user and the updates are fine.
Unfortunately, everything stopped working recently and I've updated to the latest version 6.0.3. I added some websites to the blacklist by their domain but after I refresh the page, I expect the sound to be muted but it still plays. The domain I added was YouTube but any website has this issue. I have some pinned tabs, some grouped tabs and many normal tabs if that helps. Also, I blacklisted the website in which I am actively on. Update 29 May 2024: It's back to normal again. Thank you so much!
Bug Fixes have corrected the issues, and any other issues are currently being looked in. Good plug in for switching between tabs with audio streams being played.
Genius app! Thanks for the update.
After an update the tabs are getting muted even there is nothing playing in other tabs
These guy's are awesome l love the way they got on It and got me straight with no hesitation yall are number 1....
Even with the few glitches over the years; this is hands-down my favorite extension installed.
Very helpful. Thank you very much!
Awesome for when you open a couple of YT tabs.
Not working
This is a great extension and did what is supposed to do until it stopped working.
This is a great extension and did what is supposed to do until it stopped working.
Amazing and so much helpful extension for youtube.
Great extension! Thank you! It works again. Chromium based browsers bug was fixed. Thanks to T B (Avatar) for letting us know about the bug.
Doesn't work with the current bug affecting Chrome based browsers where muting affects all sites (eg. muting 1 twitch tab when you have 2 open mutes them both)
It's awesome when an extension does exactly what it's supposed to do. 5 stars!
Love this extension, but it would work even better if it could unmute the previously muted tab i have a habit of watching something in one tab and scrolling through twitter/facebook/reddit in another and i would sometimes play clips in those other tabs, it would be great if it would then unmute the other tab again for me :D
not sure what is happened, but its not work (latest chrome version). You need to go extension settings and turn it off and again then it maybe works.
For now, seems to be working great! Keeps only one recently audible tab unmuted.
For now, seems to be working great! Keeps only one recently audible tab unmuted.
Best extension th !!!
Best extension th !!!
Please make a Firefox version!!
Please make a Firefox version!!
