Free Loopback Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to Loopback for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is JACK Audio Connection Kit, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Loopback and six of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Loopback are BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver, Soundflower, VB-Audio Virtual Cable and Source-Nexus Suite.
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Loopback alternatives are mainly Audio Routers, but if you're looking for Audio Recorders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac + Free and Mac + Open Source and Windows + Audio Router and Mac + Audio Router. 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 Loopback.- Audio Recorder
- Paid • Proprietary
- 19 JACK Audio Connection Kit alternatives
JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. The API can be used through either JACK1 or JACK2.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
United States
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Comments about JACK Audio Connection Kit as an Alternative to Loopback
- 18 BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver alternatives
BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
United States
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- Mac
BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver Features
Comments about BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver as an Alternative to Loopback
ikeIt redirects audio between application just like Loopback. It is a little more complicated but on the up side it have no recording limit.
It doents have an interface
- 20 Soundflower alternatives
Soundflower is a Mac OS X system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
United States
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- Mac
DiscontinuedThe project seems no longer developed. Last version, 2.0b2, released in December 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Soundflower Features
Comments about Soundflower as an Alternative to Loopback
Ian DorfmanSoundflower offers extremely similar functionality to Loopback, including audio passthrough, audio stream connecting, and recording. It is also free and open source.
At least it's free, and works extremely well for streaming. Sadly I can't hear my output without a multi-output device.
- 23 VB-Audio Virtual Cable alternatives
VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows Audio Driver working as a Virtual Audio Cable. After installing the VB-CABLE driver, a new playback device appears in the audio device list and can be set as default device. VB-CABLE can be set as the default device, just like any regular audio device.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
France
EU
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- Mac
- Windows
VB-Audio Virtual Cable Features
Comments about VB-Audio Virtual Cable as an Alternative to Loopback
Ian DorfmanThough only available on Windows, VB-Audio Virtual Cable offers equivalent functionality to what Loopback offers macOS, with support for audio signal routing and passthrough, recording, and multichannel support.
Multi-function creative suite for Mac and Windows including direct-routing with AAX, VST, and AU plugins, high-quality browser based sessions for music and video collaboration, a virtual remote-production studio, desktop routing with virtual drivers, and much more.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- 17 SoundDesk Virtual Devices alternatives
The SoundDesk Virtual Devices are connectors that you can use to route audio across apps.
SoundDesk Virtual Devices Features
super lite and opensource, also paying attention to latnecy