Indie alternatives to GarageBand

Local Music Organizer

Sergey Belenky

A macOS toolkit for managing big local music libraries. Find duplicate and missing tracks, inspect metadata, compare playlists, normalize gain and convert formats.

StageMate: Sheet Music Reader

军 王

Bring in your own scores as PDFs or images and flip pages hands-free with a blink or head turn. Add fingerings and build setlists.

TempoTrellis: Music Coach

Rob Rightmyer

Added 12 days ago

Build a routine that fits the minutes you have, practice with precise tools, and use your own evidence to plan the next session. Practice on iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. Adaptive layouts keep your active Practice Room together as available space changes. On roomier layouts, read the current plan and block beside your timing, notes, and practice tools. TRY THE COMPLETE LOOP Arrange a warmup,…

Open Music Player

Vasiliy Tatarli

A private player for audio files you choose yourself. Add single files or folders, then browse by songs, albums, artists and playlists.

PatchRig FX Workstation

Rob Rightmyer

Added 12 days ago

PatchRig FX turns sound ideas into playable, editable effects rigs for guitar, bass, keys, vocals, drums, and reference audio. Start with 500 generated pedalboards, 500 generated pedals, 60 super pedals, built-in audition performances, and 31,777 bundled song-tone profiles. Create a board from a sound description, a song-title trait profile, or an imported recording/reference loop. Then audition…

PatchRig FX

Rob Rightmyer

Added 12 days ago

PatchRig FX turns sound ideas into playable, editable effects rigs for guitar, bass, keys, vocals, drums, and reference audio. Start with 500 generated pedalboards, 500 generated pedals, 60 super pedals, built-in audition performances, and 31,777 bundled song-tone profiles. Create a board from a sound description, a song-title trait profile, or an imported recording/reference loop. Then audition…

Sonari: MIDI Controller

Shubhra Saha

Added 3 days ago

Make music with your hands in the air. Sonari turns movement into sound with low latency gesture control, nearly 10,000 built-in instruments and expressive MIDI output. Your Mac camera follows your hands. Choose a sound and start playing, or control instruments in your music software. No extra controller or music app is needed to hear your first note. LOW LATENCY. LIVE EXPRESSION. Move a hand…

Record Scanner - Vinyl & CD

ARTUR DROZDZ

★ 4.82.1K

Scan a record's cover or barcode to identify it and check the price. Discogs integration. Stream identified albums straight to Spotify.