GarageBand Alternatives

GarageBand is described as 'Full-featured music studio offering sound library, virtual drummers, and instrument presets available on Mac and iOS. Ideal for all skill levels' and is a very popular music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GarageBand for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, Linux and Android apps. The best GarageBand alternative is LMMS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GarageBand are FL Studio, REAPER, Walk Band and Ardour.

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  1. Bespoke Synth icon
     32 likes

    Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Cubase icon
     91 likes

    Definitive desktop DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for professional mixing, mastering, music production and sound design.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Zrythm icon
     39 likes

    Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Carla icon
     40 likes

    Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like automation of parameters via MIDI CC (and send output back as MIDI too) and full OSC control.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Sound Forge icon
     90 likes

    Comprehensive audio editing software offering high-resolution multi-channel recording, advanced mastering and restoration tools, non-destructive editing, VST support, batch processing, disc burning, 1-click cleaning, and export to broadcast or streaming formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. KiraStudio icon
     13 likes

    Lightweight music creation studio for desktop and mobile with full automation tools, modular instrument design, piano roll composing, flexible effects, SoundFont and synthesis support, MIDI import/export, and audio export, designed for projects from sketches to completion.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Soundtrap icon
     9 likes

    Soundtrap is a freemium online cross-platform digital audio workstation for browsers that allows users to create music or podcasts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    I don't know it just seems to be a good app of garageband.

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    the drums in there are total abominations. double-time swing is impossible. apart from that, it is awesome for dubstep, lo-fi hiphop and everything besides jazz and other genres better portrayed live than imitated.

    • Soundtrap is Freemium and ProprietaryGarageBand is Free and Proprietary
  8. Avid Pro Tools icon
     59 likes

    Pro Tools makes music creation fast and fluid, providing a complete set of tools to create, record, edit, and mix audio. Get inspired and start making music with a massive collection of plugins, instruments, and sounds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Melodic Mind icon
     12 likes

    Mobile-first platform with integrated DAW, stem separation, songwriting, synthesizer, real instruments, music theory, practice toolkit, vocal training, chromatic tuner, progress tracking, and unique gamification inspired by anime quests, all in a free public beta.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. FamiStudio icon
     28 likes

    FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Wine
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • iPhone
     
  11. Studio One icon
     50 likes

    Studio One is an advanced digital audio workstation for Mac and Windows featuring a bevy of powerful composition, editing, mixing and mastering tools on top of standard multi-track DAW features. Highly praised for its intuitive chord track that lets users drag and drop both...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Qtractor icon
     53 likes

    Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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