Open-source media software
2773 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged media, ranked by how closely media is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2773 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| SpotiFLAC SpotiFLAC is a cross-platform desktop application (built with Wails and TypeScript) that downloads Spotify tracks in true FLAC lossless qua… | 81 | 1879 | active |
| giantpinkrobots/varia Varia is a GTK4/libadwaita download manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS that handles regular file downloads, torrents, and video/audio st… | 92 | 1878 | active |
| nolanx-ai/nolanx.ai NolanX is an open-source multi-modal agent platform for AI filmmaking that orchestrates text, image, audio, and video models into long-runn… | 49 | 1877 | active |
| bootchk/resynthesizer A suite of third-party plugins for GIMP implementing the Resynthesizer algorithm for texture synthesis and transfer among images. It enable… | 64 | 1876 | active |
| andrewrabert/jellium-desktop Jellium Desktop is an unofficial cross-platform desktop client for the Jellyfin media server, built in Rust on top of CEF (Chromium Embedde… | 61 | 1873 | active |
| descriptinc/descript-audio-codec Descript Audio Codec (.dac) is a high-fidelity neural audio codec based on improved RVQGAN that compresses audio at roughly 90x compression… | 58 | 1873 | stable |
| eritislami/evobot EvoBot is a Discord music bot built with TypeScript and discord.js that plays music from YouTube via URLs, search queries, and playlists. I… | 23 | 1871 | active |
| keshavdv/unifi-cam-proxy A Python proxy that lets non-Ubiquiti RTSP-enabled cameras appear as native cameras in UniFi Protect NVR. It supports live streaming, full-… | 77 | 1869 | active |
| joelibaceta/video-to-ascii A Python package and CLI tool that plays video files in the terminal by rendering frames as ASCII characters, with optional ANSI color and … | 39 | 1867 | active |
| yaoxieyoulei/mytv-android A native Android video player app for watching IPTV live television channels on Android TV and mobile devices. It supports custom m3u/tvbox… | 10 | 1866 | active |
| OpenEXR OpenEXR is the specification and reference C/C++ implementation of the EXR file format, the professional high-dynamic-range image storage f… | 98 | 1865 | stable |
| LagradOst/QuickNovel QuickNovel is a free, ad-free, open-source Android app for downloading novels from many web novel sites, which also functions as an EPUB re… | 98 | 1864 | active |
| CoderLine/alphaTab alphaTab is a cross-platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library available for JavaScript, .NET, and Android. It loads sc… | 89 | 1863 | active |
| nexrender Nexrender is an open-source, data-driven render automation framework for Adobe After Effects, built on Node.js. It lets you define render j… | 82 | 1861 | active |
| HITsz-TMG/VideoClaw VideoClaw is an AI director system that turns a one-line idea or story synopsis into a fully automated video production pipeline, covering … | 64 | 1861 | active |
| audiamus/AaxAudioConverter A free, open-source Windows application that converts Audible's proprietary .aax (and older .aa) audiobook files to plain MP3 or M4A/M4B fo… | 23 | 1861 | active |
| Jellify-Music/App Jellify is a free, open-source, cross-platform music player client for Jellyfin Media Server, built with React Native for iOS and Android. … | 91 | 1859 | active |
| NeteaseCloudMusicApiEnhanced/api-enhanced A Node.js API service providing comprehensive access to NetEase Cloud Music (网易云音乐) endpoints, a half-refactored and enhanced fork of the p… | 81 | 1855 | active |
| mltframework/mlt MLT is an LGPL multimedia framework for authoring, managing, and running multitrack audio/video compositions, originally built for televisi… | 88 | 1852 | active |
| leslievan/semi-utils A Python CLI tool that batch-adds EXIF watermarks (camera model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter, ISO, shooting time, brand logo) to … | 46 | 1852 | active |
| FBReader FBReaderJ is the official repository behind FBReader, a long-running e-book reader application for Android written in Java. It supports for… | 32 | 1848 | active |
| VienLi/CcClip A pure frontend audio/video editing application built with Vue 3 and FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. It provides a multi-track timeline edi… | 32 | 1845 | active |
| media-kit/media-kit A cross-platform video and audio playback library for Flutter and Dart applications, built on libmpv with native platform bindings. It prov… | 64 | 1844 | active |
| Macast Macast is a cross-platform menu bar application that turns your computer into a DLNA Media Renderer using mpv as the playback engine. It le… | 23 | 6939 | maintenance |
| openaudible/openaudible OpenAudible is a cross-platform desktop application for downloading, cataloging, and converting Audible audiobooks to MP3 or M4B formats. I… | 87 | 1840 | active |
| durdraw/durdraw Durdraw is a terminal-based ASCII, Unicode, and ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems, inspired by classic DOS editors like TheDraw and Pab… | 86 | 1839 | active |
| FuzzyIdeas/Clop Clop is a macOS menu bar application that automatically optimises images, videos, and PDFs as soon as they are copied to the clipboard, min… | 99 | 1838 | active |
| muaz-khan/RecordRTC RecordRTC is a server-less, client-side JavaScript library for recording WebRTC audio, video, screen, and canvas media streams directly in … | 23 | 6919 | maintenance |
| rRemix/APlayer APlayer is a free, open-source music player app for Android built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It plays local music files and WebDAV st… | 96 | 1833 | active |
| m-ab-s/media-autobuild_suite A Windows batch/powershell script suite that sets up a MinGW-w64 (MSYS2) compiler environment and automatically builds FFmpeg and related m… | 77 | 1832 | active |
| futo-org/grayjay-android Grayjay (PlatformPlayer) is an Android media app by FUTO that aggregates multiple video websites as configurable sources, letting users sea… | 74 | 1831 | active |
| chenmozhijin/LDDC LDDC is a cross-platform desktop application for searching, downloading, and matching precise word-by-word (karaoke-style) lyrics from musi… | 67 | 1829 | active |
| Automattic/pocket-casts-ios The open-source iOS (and watchOS) client for Pocket Casts, a full-featured podcast player app by Automattic. It is a native Swift applicati… | 95 | 1827 | active |
| whotto/Video_note_generator A Python tool that converts video URLs into polished Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) notes and blog articles. It downloads videos, transcribe… | 40 | 1819 | active |
| Inochi2D Inochi2D is a D-language library and SDK for realtime 2D puppet animation, deforming layered 2D artwork meshes at runtime to create the ill… | 67 | 1817 | active |
| protonemedia/laravel-ffmpeg A Laravel package that wraps PHP-FFMpeg to provide an elegant, testable API for video and audio processing, with deep integration into Lara… | 66 | 1815 | active |
| SchneeHertz/exhentai-manga-manager A Windows desktop application for managing and reading locally downloaded ExHentai manga with tag-based organization. It extracts covers fr… | 87 | 1814 | active |
| MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID Phoniebox (RPi-Jukebox-RFID) is a contactless jukebox application for Raspberry Pi that plays local music, podcasts, web radio, streams and… | 76 | 1814 | active |
| zhanglun/lettura Lettura is a free, open-source RSS/feed reader desktop app built with Tauri, Rust, and TypeScript. It offers a clean, distraction-free read… | 78 | 1813 | active |
| RAVE RAVE is the official PyTorch implementation of a realtime audio variational autoencoder for fast, high-quality neural audio synthesis. It s… | 51 | 1811 | active |
| pencil2d/pencil Pencil2D is a free, open-source desktop application for creating traditional 2D hand-drawn animations using both bitmap and vector graphics… | 87 | 1806 | active |
| loki-47-6F-64/sunshine Sunshine is a self-hosted Gamestream host server for the Moonlight streaming client, implemented in C++. It captures the screen and streams… | 23 | 1803 | active |
| kejichangqing/QingMusic QingMusic is a free, ad-free local music player for Android devices. It ships as a shell player without built-in audio sources but supports… | 84 | 1802 | active |
| real-zony/ZonyLrcToolsX ZonyLrcToolsX is a cross-platform lyrics download tool built in C#/.NET that fetches lyrics from sources like NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Mu… | 71 | 1799 | active |
| openvideodev/react-video-editor OpenVideo Editor is a client-side web video editor built with React, Next.js 15, and the OpenVideo engine (PixiJS/WebCodecs), serving as a … | 61 | 1797 | active |
| freestylefly/director_ai An AI-powered mobile application for creating comic-style short dramas, generating scripts, storyboards, and composed videos from a single … | 49 | 1797 | active |
| LMS-Community/slimserver Lyrion Music Server (LMS, formerly Logitech Media Server/SlimServer) is an open-source streaming audio server written in Perl that powers S… | 77 | 1795 | active |
| chenfan0/fideo-live-record Fideo is an Electron-based desktop application for recording live streams from platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Bilibili, Douyin, an… | 22 | 1795 | active |
| TotallyNotChase/glitch-this A Python library and command-line tool that applies customizable glitch effects to images and converts images into glitched GIFs. It offers… | 23 | 1793 | stable |
| BLeeEZ/amperfy Amperfy is a native iOS/iPadOS/macOS music player app written in Swift that streams and plays songs from self-hosted Ampache or Subsonic se… | 83 | 1791 | active |
| LearnPrompt/ai-news-radar AI News Radar is an automated 24-hour AI/tech news aggregator that fetches sources, deduplicates stories, and scores headlines with three p… | 78 | 1788 | active |
| wseemann/FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever A reimplementation of Android's MediaMetadataRetriever class backed by FFmpeg, providing a unified interface for retrieving frames and meta… | 81 | 1787 | active |
| 2swap/swaptube SwapTube is a C++ framework for programmatically rendering YouTube videos, built on FFMPEG with custom graphics code above the encoding lay… | 75 | 1787 | active |
| linkedin/ambry Ambry is a distributed object store from LinkedIn designed to store and serve trillions of small immutable objects (50K-100K) as well as bi… | 68 | 1787 | active |
| AimesSoft/NipaPlay-Reload NipaPlay-Reload is a modern cross-platform local video player built with Flutter and Rust, supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and i… | 82 | 1786 | active |
| pixop/video-compare A split-screen video comparison tool written in C++ that uses FFmpeg libraries and SDL2 for interactive playback. It lets users visually co… | 94 | 1784 | active |
| leoding86/webextension-pixiv-toolkit Pixiv Toolkit Next is a WebExtension (Chrome/Firefox) that adds a download and content-management toolkit to Pixiv, letting users download … | 23 | 1783 | active |
| lklynet/aurral Aurral is a self-hosted web application that acts as a companion to Lidarr for music discovery, recommendations, and playlist automation. I… | 80 | 1782 | active |
| HFrost0/bilix bilix is a lightning-fast asynchronous download tool for bilibili and other sites, usable via a CLI or as an extensible Python library. It … | 23 | 1781 | active |
| VideoTogether/VideoTogether VideoTogether is a browser extension that synchronizes video playback across devices so friends and family can watch videos together remote… | 62 | 1779 | active |
| x007xyz/flycut-caption FlyCut Caption is an AI-powered video subtitle editing tool built as a React component and web/desktop app, offering speech recognition wit… | 73 | 1773 | active |
| pablostanley/yoinks yoinks is a terminal-based video downloader TUI built with Ink (React for the terminal) that wraps yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube, … | 51 | 1773 | active |
| vexorian/dizquetv dizqueTV is a self-hosted web application that creates simulated live TV channels from media on your Plex servers. It exposes channels via … | 82 | 1768 | active |
| zonemeen/musicn Musicn is a Node.js command-line tool for searching, playing, and downloading music from Migu, Kugou, and NetEase Cloud Music public APIs. … | 23 | 1767 | active |
| character-ai/Ovi Ovi is a video-plus-audio generation model from Character AI that simultaneously generates synchronized video and audio from text or text+i… | 38 | 1763 | active |
| itaybre/CameraController A macOS application for controlling USB (UVC) camera settings like exposure, zoom, and focus without vendor software. Built in Swift with S… | 26 | 1763 | active |
| PromyLOPh/pianobar pianobar is a free, open-source console-based client for the Pandora personalized online radio service, written in C. It supports station m… | 10 | 1763 | active |
| linuxmint/hypnotix Hypnotix is a Python-based IPTV streaming application from Linux Mint that plays live TV, movies, and series from M3U playlists, Xtream API… | 100 | 1762 | active |
| tsurumeso/vocal-remover A Python command-line tool that uses deep neural networks to separate vocals from instrumental tracks in songs. It includes pretrained mode… | 65 | 1761 | stable |
| quodlibet/quodlibet Quod Libet is a cross-platform music player and library manager with flexible metadata editing, searching, and streaming/podcast support. I… | 66 | 1756 | active |
| kushview/element Element is a free, open-source modular audio plugin host that loads AU, VST, VST3, LV2, CLAP, and LADSPA plugins. It lets users build effec… | 92 | 1754 | active |
| DialmasterOrg/Youtarr Youtarr is a self-hosted web application that automatically downloads YouTube channel and playlist content, organizes it with metadata for … | 93 | 1753 | active |
| cowtoolz/webcamize Webcamize is a command-line tool that turns almost any modern camera—DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, camcorders, point-and-shoots, and some smar… | 65 | 1752 | active |
| jacebrowning/memegen A free and open source REST API for programmatically generating meme images from URLs, built with Python, Sanic, and Pillow. It is stateles… | 77 | 1751 | active |
| mozmorris/react-webcam react-webcam is a React component that wraps the browser's getUserMedia API to display a live webcam video stream. It supports capturing sc… | 61 | 1751 | active |
| Auto Synced Translated Dubs A Python CLI tool that automatically translates video subtitles into multiple languages and generates AI voice dubbed audio tracks synced t… | 56 | 1744 | active |
| osmc/osmc OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source Linux-based media center distribution built on Debian and Kodi. It plays media fr… | 77 | 1741 | active |
| tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il Tizonia is a command-line cloud music player for Linux that streams from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Google Play Mus… | 66 | 1741 | active |
| phoboslab/jsmpeg JSMpeg is a JavaScript video player that decodes MPEG1 video and MP2 audio entirely in the browser, including an MPEG-TS demuxer, WebGL/Can… | 32 | 6496 | maintenance |
| LauZzL/doubao-downloader A browser extension and Tampermonkey userscript for batch-downloading watermark-free images and videos generated by the Doubao (Dola) AI ch… | 84 | 1740 | active |
| Liquidsoap Liquidsoap is a statically typed scripting language and runtime for building audio and video stream generators, widely used for internet ra… | 95 | 1736 | stable |
| muscriptor/muscriptor MuScriptor is a multi-instrument music transcription model by Kyutai and Mirelo that converts audio recordings into MIDI and sheet music. I… | 78 | 1732 | active |
| NZBHydra NZBHydra 2 is a self-hosted meta search application that aggregates results from newznab indexers and torznab trackers, merging, filtering,… | 93 | 1731 | active |
| Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi An Electron-based desktop application that runs the TIDAL web player with Hi-Fi (High & Max) audio quality enabled via Widevine DRM. It add… | 100 | 1730 | active |
| kushalpandya/Petrichor Petrichor is a free, open-source, native macOS music player for offline local music libraries, supporting over 20 audio formats including M… | 86 | 1728 | active |
| LargeModGames/spotatui spotatui is a fast, keyboard-driven terminal music player written in Rust with Ratatui. It natively streams Spotify and also plays YouTube,… | 80 | 1726 | active |
| Ottodix/Eole-foobar-theme Eole is a skin/theme for the foobar2000 audio player built with JavaScript (SMP/Spider Monkey Panel scripts) and Columns UI. It provides a … | 65 | 1725 | active |
| libsndfile/libsndfile libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled audio data, such as WAV and AIFF, through a single standard API.… | 64 | 1725 | stable |
| P2P Media Loader P2P Media Loader is an open-source JavaScript/TypeScript library that enables peer-to-peer delivery of live and on-demand HLS and MPEG-DASH… | 95 | 1724 | active |
| xtyxtyx/sorry A web application for creating custom captioned GIF memes (Chinese 'sorry 为所欲为' style) from popular video templates, with subtitle effect c… | 32 | 6418 | maintenance |
| jeanslack/Videomass Videomass is a free, open-source, cross-platform graphical user interface for FFmpeg written in Python with wxPython. It provides a multita… | 95 | 1722 | active |
| Threadfin/Threadfin Threadfin is an M3U proxy server for Plex DVR and Emby/Jellyfin Live TV, forked from xTeVe. It merges and filters external M3U playlists an… | 51 | 1722 | active |
| lanyeeee/jmcomic-downloader A multi-threaded GUI downloader for the 18comic.vip (jmcomic) manga site, built with Tauri (Rust backend, Vue frontend). It supports search… | 84 | 1721 | active |
| karolkozer/planby Planby is a React component library for quickly building EPG (electronic program guide), schedule, timeline, and planner UIs with a custom … | 82 | 1720 | active |
| niuhuan/daisy Daisy is a clean, ad-free comic and light novel reader client built with Flutter for the UI and Rust for networking and file system handlin… | 40 | 1716 | active |
| damongolding/immich-kiosk Immich Kiosk is a self-hosted web application that turns browsers and devices into highly configurable photo slideshows fed by an Immich se… | 86 | 1715 | active |
| saulsharma/netflix-ui A high-fidelity Netflix mobile UI clone built with React Native and Expo, featuring advanced animations, gesture interactions, and shared e… | 46 | 1715 | active |
| elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver A VA-API driver implementation that uses NVIDIA's NVDEC hardware decoder as its backend, written in C. It is primarily designed to enable h… | 89 | 1713 | active |
| xhongc/ai_story AI Story is a self-hosted platform that automates story video production: given a topic, it generates scripts, storyboards, AI images, came… | 60 | 1713 | active |
| lokesh/lightbox2 Lightbox2 is the original small JavaScript library for overlaying images on top of the current page, supporting single images and image set… | 63 | 6373 | maintenance |