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Self-hosted alternatives to Guitar Buddha

50 self-hosted Music apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

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    Audiobookshelf

    Launch

    Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted server that allows you to manage and stream your audiobook and podcast collection from anywhere. It provides a robust and user-friendly interface to organize, stream, and enjoy your audio content seamlessly a

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Amberol

    Launch

    A RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. Note that as of January 9, 2026, the recentmost Windows version (3.14.2) lags noticeably behind the recentmost Linux ver

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Lidarr

    Launch

    **Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.** It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade th

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Mopidy

    Launch

    Extensible music server. Offers a superset of the mpd API, as well as integration with 3rd party services like Spotify, SoundCloud etc.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Black Candy

    Launch

    A self hosted music streaming server

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Snapcast

    Launch

    Synchronous multiroom audio server.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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mStream

Music streaming server with GUI management tools

Launch
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Pinepods

Podcast management system with multi-user support

Launch
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Feishin

A modern self-hosted music player

Launch
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Tdarr

Distributed transcode automation

Launch
11
M

musikcube

Streaming audio server with Linux/macOS/Windows/Android clients

Launch
12
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Downtify

Download Spotify music with album art and metadata. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Docker

Launch
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Polaris

Music browsing and streaming application optimized for large music collections

Launch
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gonic

Lightweight music streaming server. Subsonic compatible

Launch
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OpenReader

EPUB, PDF, DOCX, MD, and TXT file text to speech document reader

Launch
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S

Swingmusic

Swing Music is a beautiful, self-hosted music player for your local audio files

Launch
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Podsync

Turn YouTube or Vimeo channels, users, or playlists into podcast feeds

Launch
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mpd

Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize playlists

Launch
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S

slskd

Web app for the Soulseek file-sharing network

Launch
20
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Maloja

Self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics

Launch
21
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NeriPlayer

A native Android audio player that combines multi-source streaming, local…

Launch
22
M

moOde Audio

Audiophile-quality music playback

Launch
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Explo

Spotify's "Discover Weekly" for self-hosted music systems

Launch
24
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Multi Scrobbler

Scrobble plays from multiple sources to multiple clients

Launch
25
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PigeonPod

Listen to YouTube & Bilibili. Anywhere

Launch
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LMS

Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface

Launch
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Supersonic

A lightweight and full-featured cross-platform desktop client

Launch
28
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Koito

Koito is a modern, themeable scrobbler that you can use with any program

Launch
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S

SoulSync

Automated music discovery and collection manager

Launch
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I Don't Have Spotify

Effortlessly convert music links between streaming services

Launch
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Aurral

Streamlined artists requests for Lidarr

Launch
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JellyBoxPlayer

A native desktop and mobile music player for Jellyfin and Emby

Launch
33
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Metadata Remote

Edit metadata on headless servers (or anywhere else) via a clean web…

Launch
34
T

Tempo

An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic

Launch
35
D

DroppedNeedle

Music request and discovery for Lidarr

Launch
36
P

Podgrab

A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool

Launch
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Vocard

Vocard is a simple music bot

Launch
38
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Muse

a self-hosted midwestern Discord music bot that doesn't suck

Launch
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Audioserve

Simple personal server to serve audio files from directories

Launch
40
J

JcorpNomad

An extremely compact offline media server for Movies, Shows, Books, and Music

Launch
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L

LMS

Access your self-hosted music using a web interface

Launch
42
P

PodFetch

A sleek and efficient podcast downloader

Launch
43
S

Stretto

Music player with Youtube/Soundcloud import and iTunes/Spotify discovery

Launch
44
T

Tempus

An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic

Launch
45
O

Openclaw Nerve

Real-time web cockpit for OpenClaw: voice conversations

Launch
46
I

Its Mytabs

Open source, web based, self hostable guitar/bass tab

Launch
47
J

Jellyfin Rewind

Review Your Music of 2025

Launch
48
C

Cicada

A multi-user music service for self-hosting

Launch
49
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Mobile App

The (official) Music Assistant Mobile app is a cross-platform client application

Launch
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Octo-Fiesta

Subsonic proxy for integrating streaming providers as music sources

Launch

About Guitar Buddha

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Guitar Buddha

A quieter way to sit with your guitar

A quieter way to sit with your guitar. Every feature free, forever — no subscription, no account, no streaks. Learn songs, capture riffs before they fade, jam with a backing band. Everything stays on your device. - `SONGS` — learn the songs you love: transpose, capo, auto-scroll, simplify. - `IDEAS` — hum or play a riff; the chords and key are detected and kept.

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