Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Incredibox is a great way to make some amateur music launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Incredibox v4▲178

   Express your musicality, pump it up & chill

   2015 · incredibox.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Haxophone▲526

   I built this during Covid. When I released it, some of the parts went out of stock or skyrocketed in price, no longer making this an economic DIY project. Now that things are getting back to almost normal, I thought I'd share it here and request feedback. This is a very niche project for people who like the same things I do: saxophones, Rust, mechanical keyboards and the Raspberry Pi.

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   KRFT 1.5.0▲110

   A modular instrument for music production

   2017 · studioamplify.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Music Dawn▲91

   A recorder for musicians. Every idea sounds finished.

   12d ago · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Soundpaint▲71

   Make music beautiful

   2021 · soundpaint.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Musikcube▲107

   A fully functional terminal-based music player

   2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →

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   SoundSlice▲91

   The best way to learn music from your heroes

   2014 · soundslice.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   SoundBrush▲73

   Turn drawings into music

   2014 · getsoundbrush.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Sprunki Incredibox▲11

   Interactive Music Mixing Game | Create Unique Beats

   2024 · sprunki.com · its alternatives →

10. 10QA
    Qwerkey, a better way to play chords▲8

    2016 · some1else.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    An open source music grid you can play around and create short music▲9

    2020 · music-grid.surge.sh · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Ultimate Music Toy▲56

    A simple, fun tool for musical experimentation

    2014 · ultimatemusictoy.org · its alternatives →

13. 13OS
    Open-Source Music Streams Made with Loops and Randomness▲9

    2020 · celody.com · its alternatives →

14. 14AS
    A simple music maker using Roland TR-808 sounds▲5

    2020 · tr808-emulator.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

15. 15DS
    deepsing – See music – create machine generated visual stories of songs▲7

    2020 · deepsing.com · its alternatives →

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    Soundslice▲25

    Beautiful, interactive tabs & sheet music

    2014 · soundslice.com · its alternatives →

17. 17DA
    Deciso, a collaborative music player▲5

    2016 · deciso.audio · its alternatives →

18. 18HW
    How we gamified electronic music production▲6

    2018 · casestudies.okbye.io · its alternatives →

19. 19AM
    Alphabeat – Make music from text▲5

    2017 · epiqueras.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I've been posting a sound I made everyday day for the last year▲9

    Hi - I'm part composer, part engineer and big fan of reading blogs where people learn out loud or with the garage door up by sharing their notebooks or journals. I've been doing this in Moleskines for years (going back to the 80s) but made it a new year's in 2024 resolution to post SOMETHING everyday, so long as I created the sound. I have a big archive of demos and seeds of ideas, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to do something with those in the process. Being so steeped in programming for the last 30 years, a healty chunk of this material is made via coding with Csound, TidalCycles, some raw…

    2025 · listenfaster.com · its alternatives →

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    Sprunki Incredibox Music Game▲7

    Sprunki Incredibox - Create Your Own Sprunky Beats!

    2024 · sprunkiincredibox.com · its alternatives →

22. 22CM
    Customizable music loops for videos, games, podcasts▲8

    2019 · studio.awsm.st · its alternatives →

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    Tone.js▲7

    A framework for creating interactive music in the browser

    2017 · tonejs.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 24BB
    Band Blocks, visual music programming▲8

    2017 · marianoguerra.github.io · its alternatives →

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