BlackHole VS Soundflower

Compare BlackHole vs Soundflower and see what are their differences.

BlackHole

BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency. (by ExistentialAudio)

Soundflower

MacOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower works on macOS Catalina. (by mattingalls)
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BlackHole Soundflower
173 32
13,147 8,749
2.4% -
7.0 0.0
6 days ago about 3 years ago
C Objective-C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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BlackHole

Posts with mentions or reviews of BlackHole. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

Soundflower

Posts with mentions or reviews of Soundflower. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BlackHole and Soundflower you can also consider the following projects:

Soundux - 🔊 A cross-platform soundboard

eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧

obs-asio - ASIO plugin for OBS-Studio

SoundflowerBed - SoundflowerBed 2, a Soundflowerbed fork

proxy-audio-device - A virtual audio driver for macOS to sends all audio to another output

spy-spotify - 🎤 Records Spotify to mp3 without ads and adds media tags to the files 🎵

v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device

AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

r8125-esxi - Realtek RTL8125 driver for ESXi 6.7

pyvirtualcam - 🎥 Send frames to a virtual camera from Python

Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

tn40xx-driver - Linux driver for tn40xx from Tehuti Networks