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MuteDeck is a desktop app that puts one set of mute, camera, and share controls on top of every meeting app: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, and a dozen more. The controls live on a global hotkey, an always-visible indicator, a Stream Deck or Loupedeck, or your phone. Same buttons, same place, every meeting.
It exists because "hey, you're on mute" is still a daily event twenty-plus years into video calling. Every app hides its mute button somewhere else, and none of them work when the meeting window isn't focused.
MuteDeck is built by one person, sold as a one-time perpetual license in a subscription-fatigued market, and runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no meeting data leaving your computer.
- Used by 8,300+ professionals
- Works with 13+ meeting apps, including Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack, and Discord
- Controls: global hotkeys, Stream Deck, Loupedeck, Touch Portal (phone/tablet), Home Assistant, busylights, and a local REST API
- Pricing: one-time perpetual license per computer, 7-day free trial, no account required
- Privacy: everything runs locally, nothing goes to a cloud
- Platforms: Windows 10+ and macOS 11+, with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari extensions for browser meetings
- Made in the Netherlands by a solo founder
Martijn Smit
Martijn builds MuteDeck solo from the Netherlands: the desktop apps, the integrations, the website, and the support inbox. Before MuteDeck he spent years in enterprise networking and cloud infrastructure. He is happy to talk about building a perpetual-license business in a subscription world, running a one-person software company on automation, and why meeting controls are still broken in 2026.
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- The anti-subscription bet. A one-time license with an optional $10/year update plan, in a market where everything is a subscription.
- Local-first by design. MuteDeck reads and controls meeting apps without any cloud in the loop. The privacy stance is an architecture decision, not a settings page.
- A one-person software company. Product, support, and an automated marketing operation, run solo. What that actually looks like day to day.
- Why "you're on mute" still happens. Every meeting app hides mute state in its own window and breaks its own shortcuts when focus moves. The bug is structural, and nobody owns it.
Email [email protected] and you get the founder, not a press office. Based in the Netherlands (CET), usually same-day replies. Interviews, review licenses, and screenshots in other configurations are all easy to arrange.