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24 alternatives to Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ

I wanted to listen to music with friends who live far away. Not "watch a YouTube video together" - actually share what I'm hearing in real-time, like we're in the same room. Pulse is what came out of that. Anyone can host a live audio stream from their browser tab or system audio. Listeners join, music recognition identifies tracks automatically, and there's chat with 7TV emotes. No account required - you get an anonymous code and you're in. We're running demo rooms that stream NTS Radio and SomaFM 24/7 (indie project, not affiliated - we backlink to the original stations). There's also…

Pulse 2.0 is a browser-based platform for real-time shared listening with remote friends. Anyone can host a live audio stream from their browser tab or system audio, while listeners join via anonymous code without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://www.beatsync.gg/ The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stream live music from top venues

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Join this audio room

    2021 · jam.systems · its alternatives →

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    SUB/WAVE▲102

    Self-hosted radio with an AI DJ and one shared stream

    Jul 2026 · getsubwave.com · its alternatives →

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    Dabel▲111

    Live audio streams that listeners can ring in

    2019 · dabel.app · its alternatives →

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    Discover, listen in on and join live conversations

    2021 · about.fb.com · its alternatives →

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    Play This▲119

    Create a club and let people control your playlist

    2018 · playthis.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    we:fm▲148

    Listen to music together

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A new official mobile app built for SoundCloud creators

    2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    edmradio ▲107

    Unique streaming music service and community for EDM lovers

    2021 · edmradio.me · its alternatives →

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    Talk music, sports and culture live

    2021 · open.spotify.com · its alternatives →

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    LiveKit▲236

    The open source platform for real-time communication

    2021 · livekit.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲90

    Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

    Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →

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    Listen to the same music with friends, at the same time.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Nugget▲92

    Share and record audio with your friends

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲110

    Share, discuss, and collaborate asynchronously

    2021 · pulseasync.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲128

    A community for technology leaders to learn from each other

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I built TuneJourney to solve a specific annoyance: radio ads and DJ chatter. The core feature is an in-browser "AI Skip Talk" filter. The Tech: Instead of processing on a server, it uses the Web Audio API to capture the stream locally and runs a lightweight ML classification model directly in your browser. It estimates the music vs. speech probability in near real-time. If enabled, it automatically triggers a "next" command to hop to another station the moment an ad, news segment, or DJ starts talking. Features: - In-browser Inference: Entirely local and privacy-focused; no audio data…

    Apr 2026 · tunejourney.com · its alternatives →

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    I’m happy to announce the first release of Roc Toolkit, version 0.1.0! Roc provides a C API for real-time audio transport. The user just writes a stream to the one end and reads it from another end. Roc, in turn, performs encoding and decoding, and, more importantly, deals with the problems re

    2019 · gavv.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Listen to music together w/ your remote team

    2021 · presence.so · its alternatives →

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    Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.

    2018 · sametab.com · its alternatives →

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    Listen to Spotify with others in real time

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