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The best AudioKit alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to AudioKit, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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AudioKit

A Swift toolkit for making, processing, and analyzing sound in Apple-platform apps.

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    Tone.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.9k

    A JavaScript framework for making interactive music and synths in the web browser.

    Best for: Developers adding interactive sound or music to a web page; Musicians who want to prototype synths or sequences in the browser

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    SwifterSwift

    Open source · MIT · ★ 15.3k

    A library of over 500 ready-made Swift extensions that add handy helper methods to common types.

    Best for: Swift developers building iOS or macOS apps who want common helper methods ready to use; Teams that want to pick only the extension groups they need, such as UIKit or CoreLocation

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    SVProgressHUD

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.4k

    A simple progress and status overlay for iOS and tvOS apps, written in Objective-C.

    Best for: iOS developers who need a quick loading indicator for a blocking task; Developers maintaining Objective-C codebases that want a drop-in HUD

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to AudioKit. We don't take payment for placement.