SlapWindows 🖐️💻

Slap your desk. Hear a sound. That's it.

SlapWindows listens to your microphone, detects desk slaps using frequency analysis, and plays satisfying sound effects in response. Built with Tauri, React, and Rust.

Features

• 🎤 Real-time microphone monitoring with FFT-based slap detection
• 🔊 Multiple sound packs (classic, meme, cid, and more)
• 📦 Import your own custom sound packs
• 🎯 Adjustable sensitivity, slap filter, and cooldown
• 🔄 Cycle, random, or single playback modes
• 🖥️ System tray with slap counter
• 🚀 Auto-launch on startup
• 🎨 Terminal-themed hacker UI

Download

Grab the latest release from the Releases page:

Windows

• .msi — Standard installer (recommended)
• .exe — NSIS installer

Linux

• .AppImage — Universal, runs on any distro (recommended)
• .deb — For Debian/Ubuntu (sudo dpkg -i slapwindows_x.x.x_amd64.deb)
• .rpm — For Fedora/RHEL (sudo rpm -i slapwindows-x.x.x.x86_64.rpm)

Linux Note: Make sure your user has microphone permissions. On some distros you may need to add yourself to the audio group.

Build from Source

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• Rust (stable)
• Tauri CLI (npm install -g @tauri-apps/cli)

Windows

npm install
npm run tauri build

Linux

Install system dependencies first:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  libappindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev \
  patchelf \
  libasound2-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libsoup-3.0-dev \
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev

# Fedora
sudo dnf install -y \
  webkit2gtk4.1-devel \
  libappindicator-gtk3-devel \
  librsvg2-devel \
  patchelf \
  alsa-lib-devel \
  gtk3-devel \
  libsoup3-devel \
  javascriptcoregtk4.1-devel

Then build:

npm install
npm run tauri build

Build output will be in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Data Locations

Platform	Config	Custom Sounds
Windows	%APPDATA%\slapwindows\config.json	%APPDATA%\slapwindows\sounds\
Linux	~/.config/slapwindows/config.json	~/.local/share/slapwindows/sounds/

Releasing a New Version

1. Update the version in package.json and src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
2. Commit your changes
3. Create and push a git tag:

   git tag v0.2.0
   git push origin v0.2.0

4. GitHub Actions will automatically build for both Windows and Linux and create a Release with all installers attached

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Tauri + rust-analyzer