AirBuddy is described as 'Brings the same AirPods experience you have on iOS to the Mac. With AirBuddy, you can open up your AirPods case next to your Mac and see the status right away, just like it is on your iPhone or iPad' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to AirBuddy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Android, Linux, Windows and Flathub apps. The best AirBuddy alternative is CAPod, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AirBuddy are LibrePods, PairPods, SoundShare - Audio Sharing and AirPodsDesktop.
AirPods allow for "Seamless switching" to keep them connected to both our iPhones and Macs. However we are still required to manually select a bluetooth device to direct audio to AirPods when switching from iOS to MacOS.
AirPods don't show battery level on your Android smartphone by default, however, you can change this, and bring your experience closer to iPhone users
A Bluetooth manager and Bluez front-end. With it, you can pair devices, connect to and remove devices, turn Bluetooth on and off, and more. Bluejay is powered by the Qt6 graphical toolkit and KDE Frameworks.
A very simple plugin that show if an earplug or an audio device is connected and show relevant information via the popup.
The Surface Audio app is the companion to Surface Earbuds and Surface Headphones. Update your earbuds and headphones, and customize settings to get the most out of them.
Surface Audio is the most popular iPad alternative to AirBuddy.
Airpod Battery Monitor is a Gnome Extension to report Airpod/Beats headphone battery level, using indicator icons as battery meter in system tray and message tray, or using Panel button with PopupMenus.
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