Alternatives to SoundCloud

A music streaming and audio sharing platform where independent artists upload tracks and listeners discover them. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • SoundCloud

    A music streaming and audio sharing platform where independent artists upload tracks and listeners discover them.

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Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as SoundCloud.

  • Spotify

    A music streaming service with a web player and lossless audio for Premium subscribers.

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    Spotify is a mainstream streaming service with lossless audio for Premium subscribers, but it lacks SoundCloud's open uploading for anyone to publish their own tracks.

  • Deezer

    A music streaming service with a free ad-supported tier and paid plans including FLAC quality.

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    Deezer also has a free ad-supported tier and adds FLAC streaming on its HiFi tier, with apps for Android and iOS, but it is not an open upload platform.

  • Funkwhale

    A self-hosted, federated platform for storing, streaming and sharing music and podcasts.

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    Funkwhale is an open-source, self-hosted and federated platform for sharing music and podcasts, with no tracking or ads, but you or someone else must run a server.

  • Pandora

    A music and podcast streaming service with radio-style stations, plus on-demand listening on paid plans.

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    Pandora offers free ad-supported radio-style stations plus podcasts, with on-demand listening only on paid plans and no way to upload your own music.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.