afterglow - A live-coding lighting controller, building on the Open Lighting Architecture with Clojure and bits of Overtone.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux lisp FLOSS audio

Alda - A music programming language for musicians.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

Atomiix - A re-implementation and re-invigoration of ixi lang. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux JavaScript FLOSS SuperCollider audio

Bacalao - A live-coding library for SuperCollider inspired by Tidalcycles syntax.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux SuperCollider audio

Bitrhythm - A dsl inspired by bitpatterns and tracker notation to make music with javascript, midi, vsts and webaudio.

Web | Windows | macOS javascript JUCE audio midi CC BY-NC-SA

Cane - A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio MIDI Jack

ChucK - Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

clive - Live-coding audio in C.

GNU/Linux C FLOSS audio

Conductive - A set of Haskell libraries for livecoding and real-time music applications. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux haskell SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Cyril - A programming language designed for fast prototyping of visualisations and livecoding visuals. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux openFrameworks FLOSS visuals

Extempore - (Previously Impromptu) A programming language and runtime environment designed to support 'cyberphysical programming'.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux lisp FLOSS audio

Facet - An open source livecoding environment in NodeJS with a text editor in the browser.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux NodeJS JavaScript midi Open Sound Control audio synthesis

FaustLive - FaustLive is an advanced self-contained prototyping environment for the Faust programming language with an ultra-short edit-compile-run cycle.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux faust llvm FLOSS audio DSP

Fluxus - A rapid prototyping, playing and learning environment for 3D graphics, sound and games.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux | Android | PS2 racket-lang lisp FLOSS visuals

FoxDot - Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider. See also the pitchglitch actively maintained fork.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Python SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Gibber - Creative coding for JavaScript.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS audio visuals

Glicol - A graph-oriented live coding language written in Rust.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web Rust JavaScript WebAssembly FLOSS audio visuals

gwion - 🎵 strongly-timed musical programming language Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

hydra - Live Coding networked visuals in the browser.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS visuals

Improviz - An environment for using and abusing primitive shapes and animated textures. (inactive/deprecated)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Haskell FLOSS visuals

Iannix - A graphical open-source sequencer for digital art

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux JavaScript FLOSS audio Open Sound Control visuals

ixi lang - An experimental project concerned with the creation of digital musical instruments and environments for generative music. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS SuperCollider audio

ossia score - An interactive sequencer that allows live programming of intermedia, inter-protocol artworks, through a custom visual language.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux C++ FLOSS audio

kilobeat - A collaborative web-based dsp livecoding instrument inspired by bytebeat and Gibber.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS audio

Krill - Tidal cycle like live coding in NodeJS / Browser. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux NodeJS Browser FLOSS midi

Limut - Live code music and visuals in a web browser.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox | Safari web JavaScript FLOSS audio visuals

line - A tiny command-line midi sequencer and language for live coding.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux c++ FLOSS midi audio

LiveCodeLab - A web-based language and environment for VJs, musicians and graphic artists. Allows for immediate and engaging run-as-you-type prototyping, also used in education. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux web FLOSS visuals audio

LocoMotion - A browser-based language for live coding dance, choreography, and 3D visuals (available in Estuary and as a standalone).

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web WebGL JavaScript FLOSS visuals

Max - A visual programming language for media.

Windows | macOS graphical-language Commercial audio visuals

Melrōse - a MIDI producing environment for creating (live) music

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux golang web midi MIT

Mégra.rs - A high-level, LISP-y live coding language implemented in Rust. Prominently features Markov chains.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio LISP rust

Mercury | Mercury Playground - A highly abstracted minimal language for the live coding of algorithmic music, designed to make code more accessible for both the performer and the audience. Runs in Max or the Browser.

Windows | macOS Chrome | Firefox audio visuals MaxMSP JavaScript

MicroBlocks - A stack VM-based, small, live and concurrent visual programming language for 32 bit microcontrollers inspired in Scratch and Snap!. It includes libraries for interacting with MIDI devices, as well as libraries for musical abstractions.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux | Chromebook | Chrome-based browsers FLOSS graphical-language microcontrollers midi audio

Moonlet - Lua live coding. (inactive)

Windows | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

Mosaic - An openFrameworks based Visual Patching Creative-Coding Platform.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS graphical-language audio visuals

Motifn - Code music in Javascript that plays in your DAW or browser

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript MIDI audio WebAudio

mutate4l - Live coding integrated into Ableton Live's session view.

Windows | macOS Max for Live C# FLOSS audio

Negasonic - Live coding in the browser with Ruby.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web Ruby FLOSS audio

ORCΛ - An esoteric live coding environment with two-dimensional syntax.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux audio FLOSS

OSCII - OSCII is a web software for drawing and live-coding textmode visuals and sounds.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS audio visuals

Overtone - An open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux SuperCollider lisp FLOSS audio FLOSS

PraxisLive - Hybrid visual IDE for live creative coding.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Java Processing GLSL graphical-language FLOSS visuals audio

Pulchra - Live coding language for 3D graphics.

Google Chrome | Microsoft Edge | etc. Web WebGL visuals

Punctual - Browser-based, zero-installation, audiovisual live coding language (available in Estuary and as a standalone).

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web WebGL JavaScript FLOSS visuals

Pure Data - An open source visual programming language that can be used to process and generate sound, video, 2D/3D graphics, and interface sensors, input devices, and MIDI.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux graphical-language FLOSS audio visuals

Re:code - Midi and Playback Samples Sequencer using MiniScript and unique MML(Music Macro Language)

Windows MiniScript Freeware audio midi

re<urse - A language for generating musical patterns. (inactive)

abandoned Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux TypeScript FLOSS audio

Renardo - A FoxDot fork bringing new features and functionalities

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Python FLOSS audio

Repetition.sc - A set of tools to build a SequenceableCollection of Events. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Regex - A VCV Rack live coding module generating intricated pitch and rhythm sequences.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux VCV Rack Modular FLOSS audio

Sardine A Python based live coding library (MIDI/OSC/SuperDirt).

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Python SuperCollider FLOSS audio midi Open Sound Control

sema - Sema – A Playground for Live Coding Music and Machine Learning. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux JavaScript FLOSS audio

serialist - A live coding environment that generates MIDI messages. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux JavaScript FLOSS audio

Skoar - A high-level language for coding music with SuperCollider. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux SuperCollider Python FLOSS audio

Sonic Pi - The Live Coding music synth for everyone.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Ruby SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Speccy - Live code 8-bit algorave in ClojureScript. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux web FLOSS audio lisp

Steno - Concatenative little metalanguage for live coding.

macOS | GNU/Linux SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Strudel - Live coding (Tidal-style) algorithmic patterns for the web.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS audio

SuperCollider - A platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

Syntə - A synthesis based live coding language and environment with integrated sound engine.

FreeBSD | GNU/Linux Go audio synthesis FOSS

synth-x - An experimental live coding environment for making music created with modern web technologies. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux JavaScript nodejs audio

TEXTOR - Textor is a textmode editor and live-coding environement for visuals and sounds.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS audio visuals

TidalCycles - Is a language for Live Coding pattern.

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linxux Haskell SuperCollider FLOSS audio

TimeLines - A modular synthesizer for live coding the flow of time. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS Haskell SuperCollider audio

tinyspec - A C++ live-coding environment for overlap-add (re)synthesis. (inactive)

GNU/Linux C++ FLOSS audio

Tinalla - Framework Regex based for language parsing written in javascript. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux FLOSS Javascript SuperCollider audio

Topos - Web-based live coding environment inspired by the Monome Teletype.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox FLOSS Javascript audio midi

Trane - Browser-based livecoding in Janet

Mozilla Firefox | Google Chrome web Janet MIDI audio WebAudio FOSS

Tweakable - Visual programming for music, sound and video, used by artists and musicians to make interactive art and music on the web.

Google Chrome | Microsoft Edge PWA web JavaScript MIDI audio visuals WebAudio

Vivid - Haskell synth live coding. (inactive)

Haskell SuperCollider FLOSS audio

Vuo - A realtime visual programming language for interactive media.

macOS visual-language FLOSS | Commercial visuals

vvvv - A hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development.

Windows visual-language Freeware | Commercial visuals

WASM-music - A live-coding environment for performance, composition and synthesis in the web-browser.

Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript MIDI audio WebAudio

Wulfcode - A Midi live-coding environment for performance or composition. (inactive)

macOS | Windows* | GNU/Linux* FLOSS audio

zeroone - Multi-instrumental, polyphonic, "DSLish" API for live coding music in C++.

macOS | Windows | GNU/Linux FLOSS audio

xi - A domain-specific language for Live Coding musical patterns in Ruby. (inactive)

Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux Ruby SuperCollider FLOSS audio