Alternatives to cava
Console audio visualiser that draws a live frequency spectrum. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
cava
Console audio visualiser that draws a live frequency spectrum.
Also worth comparing
These listings name cava as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Friture
Visualize live audio with scopes, spectra and spectrograms.
cava draws a live spectrum in the terminal, but it is purely decorative rather than an analysis or measurement tool.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Spek
Drops an audio file on the window and draws its spectrogram, so you can see where the quality really stops.
Sonic Visualiser
Inspect the contents of audio files through waveform and analysis displays.
Easy Effects
A rack of audio effects for PipeWire on Linux: equaliser, compressor, limiter, noise reduction and thirty more.
Voxengo SPAN
Inspect an audio signal with a real-time spectrum analyzer plug-in.
ncmpcpp
An ncurses terminal client for Music Player Daemon, with a tag editor and visualizer.
