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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| johnpolacek/BigVideo.js BigVideo.js is a jQuery plugin for adding fit-to-fill fullscreen background video (and images) to websites, built on top of Video.js. It su… | 32 | 2221 | abandoned |
| xinghongfei/LookLook LookLook is an Android news reading app that aggregates Zhihu Daily, news, and picture feeds with a polished user experience. It is written… | 32 | 2191 | abandoned |
| Shuttle Music Player Shuttle is an open-source local music player for Android written in Java, featuring an equalizer, sleep timer, folder browsing, scrobbling,… | 10 | 2173 | abandoned |
| maicong/music A PHP-based web application that aggregates music search across multiple Chinese music platforms (NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, Kugou, Kuw… | 10 | 2145 | abandoned |
| giorgisio/goav Go bindings for the FFmpeg multimedia libraries (libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter, etc.) built with cgo. The repository is explicitly n… | 23 | 2136 | abandoned |
| terrymun/Fluidbox Fluidbox is a jQuery plugin that replicates and improves Medium's minimalist lightbox module, opening linked images with smooth fluid trans… | 10 | 2133 | abandoned |
| mozilla/popcorn-js Popcorn.js is Mozilla's JavaScript library for building timeline-based interactive media experiences in the browser. It normalizes HTML5 au… | 10 | 2127 | abandoned |
| 1and2papa/CTAssetsPickerController CTAssetsPickerController is a highly customizable iOS Objective-C library that lets users pick multiple photos and videos from their photo … | 23 | 2123 | abandoned |
| AirSonos AirSonos is a Node.js server that adds Apple AirPlay support to Sonos speakers on a local network, letting iOS and macOS devices stream aud… | 10 | 2087 | abandoned |
| gilesknap/gphotos-sync A Python command-line tool that backs up Google Photos libraries to local storage using the Google Photos Library API, organizing media by … | 10 | 2083 | abandoned |
| kolber/audiojs audio.js is a drop-in JavaScript library that makes the HTML5 <audio> tag work across all browsers, using native audio where available and … | 23 | 2077 | abandoned |
| nurdism/neko n.eko is a self-hosted virtual browser that streams a remote desktop running inside a Docker container to multiple viewers via WebRTC, insp… | 10 | 2076 | abandoned |
| Airsonic Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer for personal music (and video) collections, forked from Subsonic via Libresonic. It supports o… | 10 | 2044 | abandoned |
| fregante/iphone-inline-video A small JavaScript polyfill that makes videos play inline on Safari on iPhone (iOS 8 and 9), preventing automatic fullscreen playback. It i… | 10 | 2040 | abandoned |
| zythum/mama2 MAMA2 is a browser bookmarklet/plugin project that replaces Flash video players on Chinese video sites (Bilibili, Youku, Tudou, Sohu, etc.)… | 32 | 2038 | abandoned |
| 36Kr-Mobile/KRVideoPlayer KRVideoPlayer is an Objective-C iOS video player library, similar to Weico's player, that supports fullscreen video playback while the devi… | 32 | 2036 | abandoned |
| pimusicbox/pimusicbox Pi MusicBox is a bootable SD-card image that turns a Raspberry Pi into a headless streaming music player based on Mopidy, supporting Spotif… | 10 | 2033 | abandoned |
| pierrre/imageserver A modular image server toolkit written in Go that provides HTTP serving of images with on-the-fly transformations such as resize, rotate, c… | 69 | 2029 | abandoned |
| anime-dl/anime-downloader A Python command-line tool for downloading and streaming anime episodes from various streaming sites and Nyaa. It supports batch episode do… | 23 | 2001 | abandoned |
| mafintosh/playback Playback is an open-source desktop video player built with Electron and Node.js. It plays MP4 and WebM videos and supports streaming from H… | 23 | 1998 | abandoned |
| geelen/x-gif x-gif is a web component (custom element) that provides flexible GIF playback in the browser. It decodes GIFs into individual frames and le… | 32 | 1984 | abandoned |
| PLPlayer PLDroidPlayer is Qiniu's free Android video player SDK built on a self-developed cross-platform playback kernel, offering rich features, st… | 37 | 1979 | abandoned |
| cDima/Aerial A Windows screen saver that reproduces the Apple TV aerial-view screen saver, streaming Apple's aerial videos of cities and landscapes. It … | 23 | 1979 | abandoned |
| timeshiftsauce/CeruMusic Ceru Music (澜音) is a cross-platform desktop music player built with Electron and Vue 3 that provides only a plugin runtime framework and pl… | 79 | 1953 | abandoned |
| mattgallagher/AudioStreamer An Objective-C class for streaming audio playback over HTTP on Mac OS X and iPhone OS, written by Matt Gallagher for his Cocoa with Love bl… | 32 | 1942 | abandoned |
| dzhang314/YouTubeDrive YouTubeDrive is a Wolfram Language (Mathematica) package that encodes arbitrary files into RGB videos which it uploads to YouTube, and deco… | 32 | 1937 | abandoned |
| mengkunsoft/MKOnlineMusicPlayer MKOnlineMusicPlayer was a web-based online music player UI built in JavaScript, originally backed by NetEase Cloud Music APIs. Following a … | 32 | 1930 | abandoned |
| flowplayer/flowplayer Flowplayer 7 is an open-source HTML5 video player for the web, built as a jQuery-based JavaScript library with customizable CSS skins and a… | 10 | 1913 | abandoned |
| iBaa/PlexConnect PlexConnect turns Apple TV 2 and 3 devices into Plex clients by hijacking the built-in Trailer app via a small DNS server and a web server … | 58 | 1908 | abandoned |
| slate/slate Slate is a desktop IRC client built with web technologies on node.js and node-webkit for OS X and Linux, designed to be minimal, CSS-themab… | 32 | 1904 | abandoned |
| liamxujia/linke An iOS live-streaming demo app implementing core features like local video capture, playback, beauty filters, gifts, and floating hearts. I… | 10 | 1864 | abandoned |
| Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker EZBlocker is a Windows desktop application written in C# that blocks and mutes advertisements in the Spotify client. It detects ads via win… | 23 | 1844 | abandoned |
| stfalcon-studio/FrescoImageViewer A customizable full-screen image viewer library for Android built on top of the Fresco image library, supporting pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to… | 32 | 1806 | abandoned |
| 1250422131/bilibilias BILIBILIAS was an open-source Android tool for parsing and caching Bilibili videos, built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Compose Multipl… | 10 | 1806 | abandoned |
| timschneeb/tachiyomi-extensions-archive A historical archive of removed manga source extensions for the Tachiyomi Android reader app. The repository was DMCA'd and erased, and is … | 10 | 1806 | abandoned |
| 4thline/cling Cling is a Java and Android library implementing the UPnP Device Architecture 1.0 specification, allowing applications to expose UPnP servi… | 23 | 1781 | abandoned |
| Mango Mango is a self-hosted manga server and web reader written in Crystal, supporting formats like CBZ, ZIP, CBR, and RAR with multi-user suppo… | 10 | 1775 | abandoned |
| Haptic-Apps/Slide Slide is an open-source, ad-free Reddit browser client for Android built on the Java Reddit API Wrapper (JRAW). It was distributed via Goog… | 10 | 1773 | abandoned |
| corbanbrook/dsp.js DSP.js is a JavaScript digital signal processing library providing FFT/DFT transforms, oscillators, window functions, ADSR envelopes, IIR f… | 32 | 1769 | abandoned |
| helloxz/imgurl ImgURL is a simple, self-hosted image hosting (image bed) application built with PHP and SQLite 3. It supports drag-and-drop, multi-image, … | 10 | 1760 | abandoned |
| gitsummore/nile.js nile.js is a JavaScript library for scalable peer-to-peer live video streaming built on WebTorrent and WebRTC. It provides Express middlewa… | 10 | 1757 | abandoned |
| Mangal Mangal is a cross-platform CLI/TUI manga downloader written in Go, with built-in sources (Mangadex, Manganelo, Manganato, Mangapill), exten… | 10 | 1743 | abandoned |
| alemangui/pizzicato Pizzicato is a JavaScript library that simplifies creating and manipulating sounds with the Web Audio API, supporting sounds from waveforms… | 33 | 1709 | abandoned |
| googlearchive/vrview VR View is a JavaScript library from Google for embedding 360-degree VR images and videos into traditional websites on desktop and mobile. … | 10 | 1707 | abandoned |
| Ayanaminn/N46Whisper A Google Colab notebook application that generates Japanese subtitle files from video using the faster-whisper speech recognition model. It… | 32 | 1705 | abandoned |
| przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl A Node.js wrapper library around the youtube-dl command-line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites. It exposes youtube-d… | 10 | 1683 | abandoned |
| B-Sides/ELCImagePickerController An Objective-C iOS library that clones UIImagePickerController using the deprecated Assets Library Framework to allow users to select multi… | 23 | 1639 | abandoned |
| OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv OpenELEC is a minimal embedded Linux distribution that turns a PC or single-board device into a Kodi-based home theater appliance. It boots… | 32 | 1617 | abandoned |
| oubowu/OuNews OuNews is an Android news reading client built in Java with news, picture, and video modules. It was written as a learning project demonstr… | 32 | 1600 | abandoned |
| jenly1314/KingTV KingTV is an Android app that clones the Quanmin TV (全民直播) live-streaming platform, built with MVP architecture, RxJava, Retrofit, OkHttp, … | 28 | 1599 | abandoned |
| githubwing/DragPhotoView An Android PhotoView library that lets users zoom images and drag them down to dismiss the activity, mimicking WeChat's photo viewer behavi… | 23 | 1596 | abandoned |
| Sioxas/vue-music A Vue.js demo web application for searching and playing music sourced from QQ Music. It supports playback controls, playlists, search for s… | 32 | 1592 | abandoned |
| generativefm/generative.fm A web platform for playing generative music in the browser, built with React, Redux, and Tone.js via the Web Audio API. It was the original… | 10 | 1587 | abandoned |
| guo-yu/douban.fm A tiny command-line music player for Douban FM built on Node.js, letting users stream radio channels, favorite songs, and view scrolling ly… | 23 | 1578 | abandoned |
| CharlinFeng/CorePhotoBroswerVC CorePhotoBroswerVC is an Objective-C library for iOS that provides a high-performance photo browser supporting both local and network image… | 32 | 1572 | abandoned |
| mikeal/roll-call Roll Call is a free, open-source voice chat service with multi-party audio calls and podcast-quality recording, built on WebRTC peer-to-pee… | 23 | 1557 | abandoned |
| crowforkotlin/pastemangax PasteMangaX is a third-party Android client for the CopyManga (拷贝漫画) manga and anime platform, built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose mixed wit… | 69 | 1556 | abandoned |
| Nuzair46/BlockTheSpot-Mac A shell-based patcher that blocks ads, logging, and skip restrictions in the Spotify desktop client for macOS. It is installed and managed … | 10 | 1508 | abandoned |
| artyshko/smd A Python application that downloads high-quality music from Spotify playlists, albums, and songs by fetching audio from sources like YouTub… | 23 | 1496 | abandoned |
| maxlicheng/luci-app-unblockmusic A LuCI plugin for OpenWrt/LEDE routers that runs UnblockNeteaseMusic (Node.js or Go versions) to unlock greyed-out and paid songs on NetEas… | 23 | 1494 | abandoned |
| Adblock Radio Adblock Radio is a Node.js library that detects and blocks advertisements in live radio streams and podcasts using machine learning and aud… | 10 | 1488 | abandoned |
| Richasy/BiliBili-UWP A beautifully designed third-party UWP client for BiliBili (a Chinese video platform), built in C# for Windows 10 desktops and tablets. It … | 10 | 1470 | abandoned |
| jgh-/VideoCore-Inactive VideoCore is a C++ library providing an audio and video manipulation and streaming graph for building live broadcast pipelines (camera/micr… | 10 | 1464 | abandoned |
| jagandeepbrar/lunasea LunaSea is a self-hosted software controller built with Flutter for managing media automation tools like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, SABnzbd, N… | 10 | 1461 | abandoned |
| 9p4/jellyfin-plugin-sso A Jellyfin server plugin that enables single sign-on (SSO) login through external identity providers such as Google, Microsoft, Keycloak, A… | 10 | 1455 | abandoned |
| Videogular Videogular is an HTML5 video player library and framework for AngularJS (1.x), wrapping the native video tag with bindable directives, them… | 23 | 1454 | abandoned |
| sayaka-sh/spmp SpMp is a YouTube Music client focused on customisable colours and song metadata, built with Compose Multiplatform for Android and desktop.… | 67 | 1451 | abandoned |
| EvilCult/Video-Downloader A Python-based desktop application that resolves the real video file URLs from Chinese video sites (Youku, Tudou, LeTV, Sohu, Bilibili, AcF… | 23 | 1450 | abandoned |
| yask123/Instant-Music-Downloader A Python CLI tool that downloads songs from the web given a song name, lyrics snippet, or artist, and embeds ID3 metadata (title, artist, a… | 23 | 1446 | abandoned |
| motianhuo/VCameraDemo An Android demo library wrapping FFmpeg to record short videos like WeChat's 6.0 small-video feature, with filters and MV themes. It serves… | 32 | 1441 | abandoned |
| liuling07/SimpleNews SimpleNews is an Android news client application built with Java, following the MVP architecture pattern and Material Design guidelines. It… | 32 | 1440 | abandoned |
| sc0ty/subsync A C++ tool that automatically synchronizes subtitle files with movie or TV audio using speech recognition. It detects spoken audio in the v… | 10 | 1425 | abandoned |
| manikandanraji/youtubeclone-frontend A YouTube clone frontend built with React and Redux as part of the PERN stack, featuring video uploads, likes, comments, subscriptions, and… | 10 | 1423 | abandoned |
| grobie/soundcloud2000 soundcloud2000 is a terminal-based client for streaming and browsing SoundCloud tracks, users, favorites, and playlists. It is a Ruby gem w… | 10 | 1407 | abandoned |
| sakana164/mytv-android A native Android (Kotlin) IPTV live-TV player designed for TV devices and remote controls. It supports m3u/tvbox subscription sources, mult… | 10 | 1404 | abandoned |
| dz0ny/leapcast Leapcast is a Python application that emulates a Google ChromeCast receiver, allowing any device to receive casts from Chrome browsers and … | 10 | 1400 | abandoned |
| PopcornTimeTV/PopcornTimeTV Popcorn Time client for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad that streams movies and TV shows via torrents. Written in Swift, it was maintained by a … | 10 | 1400 | abandoned |
| dxx/react-bilibili A high-fidelity clone of the Bilibili mobile web app built with React 16.8, TypeScript, Redux, and server-side rendering via Express. It is… | 69 | 1393 | abandoned |
| nining377/UnblockMusicPro_Xposed An Xposed module for Android that unlocks greyed-out (region- or license-restricted) songs in the Netease Cloud Music client by hooking the… | 23 | 1387 | abandoned |
| zpz1237/NirZhihuDaily2.0 An iOS client app that closely replicates Zhihu Daily (知乎日报), built in Objective-C/Swift against the community-documented Zhihu Daily API. … | 32 | 1383 | abandoned |
| AllToMP3 AllToMP3 is a cross-platform desktop application (built with Electron and Angular) that downloads and converts music from YouTube, SoundClo… | 23 | 1381 | abandoned |
| Trovebox Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto) frontend is a JavaScript web interface for photo sharing and photo management, designed to work with photos s… | 10 | 1376 | abandoned |
| xiaoyaocz/biliuwp-lite BiliUWP Lite is a third-party UWP client for the Chinese video platform Bilibili, written in C#. The project has been officially discontinu… | 10 | 1373 | abandoned |
| stewdio/beep.js Beep.js is a JavaScript toolkit for building browser-based synthesizers using the WebAudio API, with a batteries-included approach that let… | 32 | 1368 | abandoned |
| SamyPesse/tv.js A Node.js smart TV application that searches for movies via iTunes' API and isoHunt, then streams them over BitTorrent directly to a TV-con… | 32 | 1363 | abandoned |
| master131/BlockTheSpot BlockTheSpot is a Windows-only mod that patches the Spotify desktop client to block banner, video, and audio ads and unlock track skipping.… | 10 | 1362 | abandoned |
| MediaCrush/MediaCrush MediaCrush is a self-hostable website for uploading and sharing images, audio, and video via fast, shareable links. It is a full web applic… | 32 | 1330 | abandoned |
| LLhon/Android-Video-Editor An Android video editing project integrating several open-source frameworks to provide video recording, trimming, filtering, and compressio… | 32 | 1327 | abandoned |
| waynell/VideoListPlayer An Android library that plays videos inside ListView or RecyclerView items, similar to Instagram's feed video playback. It supports automat… | 23 | 1321 | abandoned |
| ukdtom/WebTools.bundle WebTools is a collection of utilities for Plex Media Server, including an Unsupported AppStore (UAS), subtitle finder, playlist manager, an… | 23 | 1307 | abandoned |
| GabrielAlva/Cool-iOS-Camera A customizable iOS camera view built on AVFoundation, written in Objective-C, that overlays on any view controller and returns captured ima… | 32 | 1304 | abandoned |
| almalence/OpenCamera A multi-functional open-source camera application for Android devices. It provides an alternative to stock camera apps with extended photo … | 32 | 1303 | abandoned |
| mov-cli mov-cli is a Python CLI tool that lets users search for and stream movies and TV shows directly from the terminal, using a plugin system to… | 51 | 1299 | abandoned |
| kaku2015/ColorfulNews ColorfulNews is an Android news-reading app built with Material Design, MVP architecture, Dagger2, RxJava, and Retrofit2. It aggregates new… | 32 | 1299 | abandoned |
| Ximalaya Downloader A desktop tool for one-click downloading of albums and individual tracks from the Ximalaya audio platform, including purchased and VIP cont… | 10 | 1299 | abandoned |
| grafov/m3u8 A Go library for parsing and generating M3U8 playlists used in Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), supporting master and media playlists, encr… | 10 | 1292 | abandoned |
| zhaoxianjin/91porn An unofficial Android client for the adult video site 91Porn, built with RxJava, Retrofit, RxCache, MVP, and Jsoup. It bypasses the guest l… | 32 | 1290 | abandoned |
| edankwan/The-Spirit The Spirit is a WebGL-based visual experiment by Edan Kwan that creates a smoky particle effect using curl noise and noise derivatives. It … | 32 | 1285 | abandoned |
| jansmolders86/mediacenterjs MediacenterJS is a self-hosted media center application built on Node.js that streams and plays your local movies, TV shows, and music thro… | 23 | 1277 | abandoned |
| frontend-collective/react-image-lightbox A React lightbox component for displaying images with zoom, keyboard navigation, and mobile touch support. The package is no longer maintai… | 10 | 1277 | abandoned |