The best JUCE alternatives

Source code for SonoBus, a real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool.

Choose sonobus if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports GNU General Public License v3.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need linux or low-latency

Shares aax, audio, audiounit, plugin with JUCE.

nih-plug

robbert-vdh/nih-plug

Rust VST3 and CLAP plugin framework and plugins - because everything is better when you do it yourself

Choose nih-plug if…

• you would rather work in Rust than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports ISC License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need clap or nih-plug

Shares framework, plugin, vst3 with JUCE.

Cardinal

DISTRHO/Cardinal

Virtual modular synthesizer plugin

Choose Cardinal if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports GNU General Public License v3.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need eurorack or lv2-plugin

Shares audio, plugin with JUCE.

clap

free-audio/clap

Audio Plugin API

Choose clap if…

• you would rather work in C than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need clap or daw

Shares audio, plugin with JUCE.

Qv2ray

Qv2ray/Qv2ray

:star: Linux / Windows / macOS 跨平台 V2Ray 客户端 | 支持 VMess / VLESS / SSR / Trojan / Trojan-Go / NaiveProxy / HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS5 | 使用 C++ / Qt 开发 | 可拓展插件式设计 :star:

Choose Qv2ray if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports GNU General Public License v3.0
• you want the more widely starred option (16.9k)
• you specifically need aur or cmake

Shares cpp, plugin with JUCE.

VirtualApp

asLody/VirtualApp

Virtual Engine for Android(Support 14.0 in business version)

Choose VirtualApp if…

• you would rather work in Java than C++
• you specifically need android or plugin-manager

Shares framework, plugin with JUCE.

cordis

cordiverse/cordis

Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability

Choose cordis if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you specifically need effect or nodejs

Shares framework, plugin with JUCE.

MelonLoader

LavaGang/MelonLoader

The World's First Universal Mod Loader for Unity Games compatible with both Il2Cpp and Mono

Choose MelonLoader if…

• you would rather work in C# than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need dll or dotnet

Shares framework, plugin with JUCE.

core

cheshire-cat-ai/core

AI agent microservice

Choose core if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports GNU General Public License v3.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ag-ui-protocol or agent

Shares framework, plugin with JUCE.

FunASR

modelscope/FunASR

Open-source speech recognition toolkit for training, inference, streaming ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diarization pipelines, and OpenAI-compatible/MCP serving.

Choose FunASR if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (20.9k)
• you specifically need asr or chinese

Shares audio with JUCE.

flower

flwrlabs/flower

Flower: A Friendly Federated AI Framework

Choose flower if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need ai or android

Shares cpp, framework with JUCE.

transformers

huggingface/transformers

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

Choose transformers if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (168.5k)
• you specifically need deep-learning or deepseek

Shares audio with JUCE.