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nuclear

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nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, more.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Window Manager  [https://snapcraft.io/nuclear](https://snapcraft.io/nuclear)
  • Flatpak  [https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.js.nuclear.Nuclear](https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.js.nuclear.Nuclear)
  • Homebrew  [https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/nuclear](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/nuclear)
  • Chocolatey  [https://chocolatey.org/packages/nuclear/](https://chocolatey.org/packages/nuclear/)
4.1 / 5 Avg rating (17)
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Music Downloader
  3.  Playlists
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Stream audio
  6.  Music Library
  7.  Visualizer
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  MP3 Downloader
  10.  No registration required
  11. Spotify icon  Spotify integration
  12.  Streaming
  13.  Built-in Equalizer
  14. SoundCloud icon  SoundCloud Integration
  15.  User Rating
  16.  Lossless Audio
  17.  Personalized Recommendations

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  • Developed by

    nukeop
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.1 (17 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    70 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Czech
    • Azerbaijani
    • Kurdish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Ukrainian
    • Italian
    • Polish
    • Belarusian
    • French
    • Spanish
    • Croatian
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • German
    • Korean
    • Bengali
    • Danish
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Japanese

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Audio & MusicVideo & Movies

GitHub repository

  •  13,173 Stars
  •  1,109 Forks
  •  144 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 9 comments and reviews about nuclear, and it has gotten 94 likes

nuclear was added to AlternativeTo by Belsima on May 17, 2018 and this page was last updated Apr 23, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
liwopix327
Aug 19, 2020
2

Great alternative to google or spotify, it takes music from youtube and let you listen without being tracked. It has a lot of bugs or bad UI but i'm sure opening issues in github isn't a problem

Top Negative Comment
AdinanCenci
Jan 13, 2022
3

It is a very nice idea, but at its current state it is horribly slow, it takes forever to start playing when it plays at all.

Merlin9
Mar 9, 2025

I agree with the slowness, its 2025. I am on a M2 Max Apple Silicon Mac everything should be done in 1 - 3 seconds or less. At least should a progress bar show me that something is happening.

Merlin9
Mar 9, 2025
0

you gotta do "xattr -cr" in terminal on MacOS if you want to run the Application or it claims the program is "corrupt", it also takes over your whole MacOS to basically say all .mp4's need to be played with "nuclear" doesn't prompt me if I wanted to do that in the first place. I tried using it for 30 mins which is a good shot but its strangely slow so when I click play on a song I want to hear it takes 45 Sec to about 1 min and 30 secs before I can hear any audio and jumping around. I have no idea if can point it to play my local library of already downloaded music. This music player to me seems like someones personal project that needs more work and refinement I don't like it just going in and it setting itself as default for all media from music to videos.

anarchy1923
Aug 7, 2024
0

Cool little app. Just what you'd think (and more)!

Nasch Dax
Apr 22, 2024
0

i̶t̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶d̶. greedy corpos like alphabet destroy the internet. nuclear is not working anymore. tried several versions. time to ditch any american service really.

João Lourenço
Jun 7, 2023
2

love the concept but would be nice if it worked. for instance, vimusic for android has the same logic and works flawlessly

Guest
Oct 27, 2021
1

Still in pre-release stage but has potential,

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What is nuclear?

nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, more.

If you know mps-youtube, this is a similar music player but with a GUI. It's also focusing more on audio. Imagine Spotify which you don't have to pay for and with a bigger library.

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