sfxia is a tiny chip-style sound generator for Windows that lets you easily create retro, 8-bit sounds by tweaking sliders or hitting a Generate button to randomly generate a new sound.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux

Explodomatica is described as 'This program is an attempt to automatically generate explosion sound effects for use in video games, etc' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to Explodomatica for Web-based, Linux, Windows and Self-Hosted. The best Explodomatica alternative is sfxia, which is free. Other great apps like Explodomatica are bfxr, SFXR, ChipTone and Power Station Industrializer.
sfxia is a tiny chip-style sound generator for Windows that lets you easily create retro, 8-bit sounds by tweaking sliders or hitting a Generate button to randomly generate a new sound.

Bfxr is an online version of sfxr, a chiptune sound effects generator. The interface is more or less the same as sfxr. Some additional features have been added to this version such as 5 new waveforms, 3 new filters, a mixer, and more.


Sfxr is a program that specializes in making chiptune sound effects for video games. Its interface consists of sliders that change the shape of the wave as well as the envelope and pitch. It has the ability to export to WAV for use in other programs.


ChipTone is a free, online tool for generating sound effects, primarily for games. With a vocoder feature in the works, ChipTone is a fantastic tool for game developers who do not want to learn a DAW.

Industrializer is a program for generating percussion sounds for musical purposes. This program is great for generating new techno and industrial sounds. It also can produce chimes, bubbles, gongs, hammer hits on different materials and so on.

Jfxr is a browser-based tool to generate sound effects, for example for use in games. It was inspired by bfxr, but aims to be more powerful and more intuitive to use.

wafxr is a sound effect generator in the tradition of as3fxr, bfxr, jfxr, and others. But where such tools normally generate static files, this one plays sounds dynamically via Web Audio. Supports oscillators, FM synth, tremolo/vibrato, and various other filters and effects.
