Free Soundflower AlternativesTop Audio Routers & Audio Recorders like Soundflower

The best free alternative to Soundflower 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 Soundflower and 14 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Soundflower are VB-Audio VoiceMeeter, BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver, VB-Audio Virtual Cable and Synchronous Audio Router.

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  1. JACK Audio Connection Kit icon

    JACK Audio Connection Kit

     54 likes

    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.

    21 JACK Audio Connection Kit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    JACK Audio Connection Kit vs Soundflower Comments
    David
    Positive
    3

    JACK Audio is much more complicated and requires actually starting up the server for routing to take effect but it fundamentally addresses the same issue of routing which Soundflower does.

    Guest
    Negative
    12

    jack is much too complicated. soundflower was so simple, just so buggy. how has nobody made a good copy of it yet...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    -2

    jack audio doesn't seem to stream screen sharing audio

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • JACK Audio Connection Kit is Free and Open SourceSoundflower is also Free and Open Source
    • JACK Audio Connection Kit is LightweightSoundflower is not according to our users
  4. BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver icon

    BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver

     23 likes

    BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

    21 BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver alternatives

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    • Mac
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    BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver vs Soundflower Comments
    David
    Positive
    1

    Blackhole takes off where Soundflower left off and supports modern macOS. Development is live and active.

    Guest
    Positive
    2

    It is basically the same thing as Soundflower, but it works for Catalina. Nothing new to learn.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver is Free and Open SourceSoundflower is also Free and Open Source
  5. VB-Audio Virtual Cable icon

    VB-Audio Virtual Cable

     41 likes

    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.

    26 VB-Audio Virtual Cable alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Virtual cable device in Windows audio settings
     
  6. Synchronous Audio Router icon

    Synchronous Audio Router

     3 likes

    Synchronous Audio Router is a software-based audio routing driver for Windows. You can create any number of Windows audio endpoints, either playback or recording, and route them using any digital audio workstation software which supports ASIO, all with low latency.

    17 Synchronous Audio Router alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. MIXLINE icon

    MIXLINE

     3 likes

    MIXLINE is an audio mixing software that performs audio routing, mixing, and streaming. All bundled into a beautiful User Interface!.

    27 MIXLINE alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Wave Link icon

    Wave Link

     3 likes

    Wave Link is the audio mixing software for the Elgato Wave microphones. Together with the Wave microphone, up to eight other audio sources can be mixed together and two separate outputs; a monitor mix and a stream mix are created.

    6 Wave Link alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    qpwgraph

     5 likes

    qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.

    7 qpwgraph alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flatpak
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