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24 alternatives to Waveforms

An interactive, educational guide to the physics of sound

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Waveforms launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The Radial Sound Wave by SoundViz▲88

   A fresh new take on sound wave art

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Octave▲191

   A free library of UI sounds for your apps

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Soundation▲76

   Fun electronica creation for everyone

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4TJ
   Teoria.js - Music theory for JavaScript▲77

   2013 · saebekassebil.github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5PS
   Professional sound effects for UI projects▲166

   2014 · soundkit.io · its alternatives →

6. 6HG
   HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection▲218

   2014 · getinstinct.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   LightNote▲242

   An interactive site to learn the basics of music theory 🎶

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8HW
   Harmogram, Web Audio API + Canvas (Paper.js) FFT/Harmonograph▲105

   2012 · harmogram.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Wave▲73

   A fast, minimalistic gesture-based music player app

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10FM
    Flat – Music notation software: Web-based and Real-time collaboration▲207

    2016 · flat.io · its alternatives →

11. 11LT
    Libquiet – transmit data using sound▲127

    2016 · brian-armstrong.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    MTME▲102

    A new way to discover music

    2017 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Mindscapes▲90

    Stochastic background music generator

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14MA
    Muzoti – Algorithmic Music with Web Audio/Midi and VueJS▲93

    2018 · muzoti.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Flat for Education▲8

    Music learning app from theory to composition

    2017 · its alternatives →

16. 16SV
    Sound Visualizations with Pts.js▲7

    2019 · ptsjs.org · its alternatives →

17. 17
    KRFT 1.5.0▲110

    A modular instrument for music production

    2017 · its alternatives →

18. 18JA
    JAZZARI: A programmable band in your browser▲49

    2017 · jackschaedler.github.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Beep▲73

    Bringing Music To Every Room

    2014 · its alternatives →

20. 20SA
    Songturtle, a web app to help you learn music by ear▲7

    2019 · jakewilson.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21WA
    Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis▲77

    Hi, I'm the author of this little Web Audio toy which does physical modeling synthesis using a simple spring-mass system. My current area of research is in sparse, event-based encodings of musical audio (https://blog.cochlea.xyz/sparse-interpretable-audio-codec-pa...). I'm very interested in decomposing audio signals into a description of the "system" (e.g., room, instrument, vocal tract, etc.) and a sparse "control signal" which describes how and when energy is injected into that system. This toy was a great way to start learning about physical modeling synthesis, which seems…

    2025 · blog.cochlea.xyz · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Tone.js▲7

    A framework for creating interactive music in the browser

    2017 · its alternatives →

23. 23AV
    A virtual oscilloscope using Web Audio and live microphone input▲42

    2016 · academo.org · its alternatives →

24. 24WB
    Web based audio visualization on RGB LEDs▲48

    2018 · ashishdubey.xyz · its alternatives →

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