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, Linux, Android and iPad apps. The best GarageBand alternative is LMMS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GarageBand are FL Studio, REAPER, Ardour and Walk Band.

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GarageBand alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps, but if you're looking for Digital Audio Workstations or Audio Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Android, Online, Linux, Free, Mac + Free and Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to GarageBand.
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  1. LNX Studio icon
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    LNX_Studio is a Digital Audio Work Station created in the SuperCollider language. It has a powerful set of tools for creating music, all of which can be networked. Co-location gigs or real-time collaborations don't have to be in the same room.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Open Octave icon
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    Open Octave Midi is a Linux based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to give musicians the tools needed to make composing on a computer possible, and even fun! The project is focused on orchestral and film writing and recording.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Swar Studio icon
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    Swar Studio is a low-cost, high functionality, 64 bits Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that will help you create professionally-sounding songs with minimal additional gear. It comes with 41 virtual instruments, 17 of them Indian, which makes it particularly adapted for music of...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Tabletop is the first modular audio environment designed from the ground up exclusively for iPad. It features interactive devices and instruments that sound amazing and are fun to play. Each device has its own characteristics and personality — from classics like drum...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
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    The Microncode Audio Tools is an app for Windows desktop which allows you to do many operations on audio (and video) files, fast and easily. You can convert, join, split and cut multimedia files, record audio from any source in your PC, set the ID3 tags of many types of...

    106 Microncode Audio Tools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. MidSequer icon
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    MidSequer is a piano roll style music sequencer. Let's make a music on your phone! -16 tracks -128 GM Instruments + 1 Drumset (*Android built-in MIDI tones).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    Drum Pad Afro beat is an amazing afro beats music mixer. Make music with this DJ app with simple taps. Be an afro beat maker, mix loops and record your own melodies with the pads on the drumpad. Use your imagination to discover a new world of afrobeat tracks by this beatbox...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. Tape It icon
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    Record with incredible stereo quality, mark the best moments of your session, and stay on top of your library with Tape It. Made by musicians, for musicians.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
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    Record your song ideas and demos on this 4-track recorder. The J4T is a 4-track recorder, great for recording your song ideas and demos.

    Features:

    • Four tracks
    • Export to wav or mp3 for sharing or desktop editing.
    • Import music files (wav and mp3).
    • Adjustable samplerate.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. openDAW icon
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    openDAW is a next-generation web-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to democratize music production and to resurface the process of making music by making high-quality creation tools accessible to everyone, with a strong focus on education and data-privacy.

    51 openDAW alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Node.JS
     
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