AudioKit Alternatives

Apps similar to AudioKit include OpenAL Soft, which is free and open source. Other options are JUCE, PortAudio, RtAudio and FMOD Ex. In total there are seven Software Frameworks like AudioKit for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and self-hosting.

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    OpenAL Soft is an LGPL-licensed, cross-platform, software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API. It's forked from the open-sourced Windows version available originally from openal.org's SVN repository (now defunct).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Android
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  2. JUCE icon
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    JUCE is a wide-ranging C++ class library for building rich cross-platform applications and plugins for all the major operating systems.

    19 JUCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. PortAudio icon
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    PortAudio is a cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library. It provides a very simple API for recording and/or playing sound using a simple callback function.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    RtAudio is a set of C++ classes that provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across Linux, Macintosh OS-X and Windows operating systems. RtAudio significantly simplifies the process of interacting with computer audio hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. FMOD Ex icon
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    FMOD is a proprietary audio library that plays music files of diverse formats on many different operating system platforms, used in games and software applications to provide audio functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. SoLoud icon
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    SoLoud is portable - the c/c++ code base is written in portable way, and the code has been used on various platforms including windows, osx, linux, as well as android and even ps4. (I'm not responsible for many of the platforms, though, and for licensing reasons, ps4 code is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. KFR icon
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    KFR is built for developers who need a powerful toolkit for audio and DSP applications. The framework is packed with ready-to-use C++ classes and functions for various DSP tasks from high-quality filtering to small helpers to improve development speed.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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