Volwheel Alternatives
Volwheel is described as 'VolWheel is a little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on. It is written in Perl/Gtk2 and works both for ALSA and OSS. You can configure it quickly through its configuration interface' and is an app in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Volwheel for Windows, Linux, Mac, Windows S and KDE. The best alternative is EarTrumpet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Volwheel are Volume2 (Free), Background Music (Free, Open Source), Volumouse (Free) and Easy Volume Control (Free).
- Volume Icon aims to be a lightweight volume control that sits in your systray. It is often used in conjuction with the lightweight tint2 panel/taskbar.
- Volume Scroll lets you control your main volume by hovering with your mouse cursor over the top menubar and scrolling up or down to change your volume.
- iVol is a program you can use to adjust the sound volume of your computer in an extremely easy way. Just press your mouse wheel and scroll it up or down. You do not even have to move your hand! In addition, it also supports Shift+Wheel as an alternative.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 3.4c, released in August 2007, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine
- Volctl - Volume Control per application from System Tray for Linux Volctl is a free and opensource app for Linux writen in python and gtk+ and that can be used to control volume per application and for enabled pulseaudio outputs from the system tray.
- SoundBunny allows you to control the volume level for all open applications on your Mac.
- Power Mixer is a complete Windows volume control replacement. It includes audio mixer, scheduler, hot keys support, command line support, the ability to store and recall different presets.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows