Open Source Soundflower AlternativesTop Audio Routers & Audio Recorders like Soundflower

The best open source alternative to Soundflower is JACK Audio Connection Kit. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Soundflower and eight of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Soundflower are BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver, Synchronous Audio Router, qpwgraph and PulseMeeter.

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  1. JACK Audio Connection Kit icon

    JACK Audio Connection Kit

     54 likes

    JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. The API can be used through either JACK1 or JACK2.

    21 JACK Audio Connection Kit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    JACK Audio Connection Kit vs Soundflower Comments
    David
    Positive
    3

    JACK Audio is much more complicated and requires actually starting up the server for routing to take effect but it fundamentally addresses the same issue of routing which Soundflower does.

    Guest
    Negative
    12

    jack is much too complicated. soundflower was so simple, just so buggy. how has nobody made a good copy of it yet...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    -2

    jack audio doesn't seem to stream screen sharing audio

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • JACK Audio Connection Kit is Free and Open SourceSoundflower is also Free and Open Source
    • JACK Audio Connection Kit is LightweightSoundflower is not according to our users
  2. BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver icon

    BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver

     23 likes

    BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

    21 BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver alternatives

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    • Mac
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    BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver vs Soundflower Comments
    David
    Positive
    1

    Blackhole takes off where Soundflower left off and supports modern macOS. Development is live and active.

    Guest
    Positive
    2

    It is basically the same thing as Soundflower, but it works for Catalina. Nothing new to learn.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver is Free and Open SourceSoundflower is also Free and Open Source
  4. Synchronous Audio Router icon

    Synchronous Audio Router

     3 likes

    Synchronous Audio Router is a software-based audio routing driver for Windows. You can create any number of Windows audio endpoints, either playback or recording, and route them using any digital audio workstation software which supports ASIO, all with low latency.

    17 Synchronous Audio Router alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. qpwgraph icon

    qpwgraph

     5 likes

    qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flatpak
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  7. Helvum icon

    Helvum

     4 likes

    GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Home Rec icon

    Home Rec

     1 like

    Home Rec is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that captures system audio output and saves it as high-quality WAV files (48kHz/16-bit stereo). Built with SwiftUI and Apple's ScreenCaptureKit framework, it provides a simple one-click recording experience without requiring...

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    • Mac
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