FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited.



FamiTracker is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is FamiStudio, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to FamiTracker and ten of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to FamiTracker are MilkyTracker, Furnace Tracker, Schism Tracker and DefleMask.
FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited.



MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker...






Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.








Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MIDI equipment.





Prototracker is a fakebit chiptune tracker that uses a single-oscillator synth with 256 preset waveforms. Macros are used to create instruments and keyboard shortcuts are similar to the familiar Protracker.

Arkos Tracker is the ultimate musical tool (or "Tracker") for 8/16-bit computers from the 80's, such as Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Oric, Apple 2, Vectrex, and SHARP MZ-700!




ChibiTracker is not currently in development but downloads are still available from Freecode (http://freecode.com/projects/chibitracker) & SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/chibitracker.berlios).



Pata Tracker is a simplified music tracker to compose chiptune. A tracker file (also called an Album) contain a collection of instruments and songs. A maximum of 93 instruments can be created per synthesizer (currently, there are 7 different synthesizers).




Core tracker features, but with lots of extra, modern, affordances