Free AirPlay Alternatives
The best free alternative to AirPlay is WiFi Audio Wireless Speaker. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to AirPlay and 12 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to AirPlay are Airfoil (Freemium), Gnomecast (Free, Open Source), SoundWire (Freemium) and Stream What You Hear (Free, Open Source).
- Utility for turning your Android smartphone or tablet into a wireless speaker. View 11 alternatives to WiFi Audio Wireless Speaker
- Send any audio to the AirPort Express. Send any audio to AirPort Express units, Apple TVs, and even other Macs and PCs, all in sync! View 15 alternatives to Airfoil
- Chromecast local files from Linux - supports MKV, subtitles and 4K!. View 7 alternatives to Gnomecast
- SoundWire lets you send any music or audio ("what you hear now") from your Windows or Linux PC to your Android mobile devices. View 11 alternatives to SoundWire
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Raspberry Pi
- Stream What You Hear (SWYH) is a Windows application to broadcast the sound of your computer (ie: “what you hear”) on an UPnP/DLNA device such as TVs, amps, network receivers... View 14 alternatives to Stream What You Hear
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Stream What You Hear vs AirPlay
About 5 seconds delay but works great. Even works if the streaming PC is muted. - Barco’s ClickShare product is a game changing way to collaborate, making meetings more productive, spontaneous and efficient. View 2 alternatives to ClickShare
- MacOS tray app to control Sonos speakers ecosystem. View 15 alternatives to Ses
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- TuneBlade - Stream audio to Airport Express, Apple TV, AirPlay compatible speakers and HiFi Receivers. Free version limitation: streaming stops every 10 minutes. View 7 alternatives to TuneBlade
- Watch the latest news, live sports events, YouTube and music videos on TV. Requires only phone/tablet and an optional connected TV. Supports Samsung TV, LG TV, Sony TV, Apple TV, XBox, Chromecast... and of course your mobile screen. View 24 alternatives to Flipps
- This is a Java application to use the speaker connected to other computer on the network. It transfers audio in uncompressed PCM format and uses 172 kilobyte per second bandwidth. View 8 alternatives to SpeakerShare
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.0, released in January 2014, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux