Soundflower Alternatives for Linux

Soundflower is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is JACK Audio Connection Kit, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Soundflower and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Soundflower are qpwgraph, PulseMeeter, Helvum and OBS Audio Monitor.

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  1. JACK Audio Connection Kit icon

    JACK Audio Connection Kit

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    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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    Platforms

    • 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
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    qpwgraph

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

    7 qpwgraph alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flatpak
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