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. Phase – Generate sounds from mathematical functions launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Phase▲2

   Generates sounds from mathematical functions.

   2020 · bafs.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   99% Invisible - 15: Sounds of the artificial world▲5

   Designing organic sounds for iInorganic things

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   99% Invisible - 43: Accidental music of imperfect escalators▲66

   How Imperfections In Products Make Them Lovable

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4UT
   Universal Tone Generator – A Generative Music Experience▲8

   Univeral Tone Generator.

   2020 · utg.ezralafleur.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Reasonably Sound - 1: The Ear▲55

   A discussion on sound and how we hear things

   2015 · americanpublicmedia.org · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Holoplot▲8

   Generate consistent sound across acoustically varying spaces

   2018 · holoplot.com · its alternatives →

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   Waveforms▲6

   An interactive, educational guide to the physics of sound

   2018 · waveforms.surge.sh · its alternatives →

8. 8BB
   Binaural Beat Player▲5

   Generated by synthetic sounds

   Dec 2025 · grigio.github.io · its alternatives →

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

   2020 · celody.com · its alternatives →

10. 10GP
    Generating Piano Music with Neural Networks▲6

    2017 · lawsonhe.com · its alternatives →

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    Imaginary Soundscape▲6

    Take a walk in the soundscapes imagined by AI

    2018 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Ting Ting – A piano in less than 100 lines of JS (using Phaser.js)▲9

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13AC
    A collection of phonetic algorithms written in JavaScript with live examples▲5

    2016 · yomguithereal.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Tone.js▲7

    A framework for creating interactive music in the browser

    2017 · tonejs.github.io · its alternatives →

15. 15BA
    BandFu, an experimental audio playground▲5

    2013 · bandfu.com · its alternatives →

16. 16UB
    Understanding Braids (digital audio synthesis 101)▲7

    2022 · weenoisemaker.com · its alternatives →

17. 17PL
    Pitch – Learn to sight read music▲6

    2015 · practicemakesperfect.education · its alternatives →

18. 18TP
    Tensor product analogy – functional currying▲8

    Mathematical Physics & Geometric Signal Processing

    2019 · jwkennington.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AG
    A gentle introduction to music theory (in ruby)▲6

    2014 · skillsmatter.com · its alternatives →

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    Ambicular▲6

    A fabulous ambient noise generator.

    2016 · ambicular.com · its alternatives →

21. 21DJ
    D3.js/HyperApp-powered interactive fractals▲5

    2017 · codepen.io · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Season's greetings from Attractor, a fractal graphing calculator▲6

    An interactive preset in Attractor, a tool to generate and animate fractals based on iterated functions of complex numbers

    2020 · attr.actor · its alternatives →

23. 23PS
    Patterns – Subliminal Messages with ControlNet▲8

    2023 · krea.ai · its alternatives →

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    Linum – The simple musical notation and synthesizer▲5

    The simple musical notation and synthesizer

    Feb 2026 · linum-notation.org · its alternatives →

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