Snapcast
Synchronous multiroom audio server.
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Still maintained? Yes: 27 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.35.0 (Mar 2026).
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: Spotify alternatives, SoundCloud alternatives, Podbean alternatives.
At a glance
Snapcast quick facts
- Health score
- 80/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 8,038
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.35.0, Mar 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution. Audio is captured by the server and routed to the connected clients. Several players can feed audio to the server in parallel and clients can be grouped to play the same audio stream."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Snapcast scores 80/100, #15 of 28 in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: 27 commits in the last 90 days earn 31.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.35.0, 8 months ago) earns 22.5 of 25, 8,038 stars add 15.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 31.5 / 35
27 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 22.5 / 25
v0.35.0 released 8 months ago
- Stars 15.6 / 20
8k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 27
- Last 90 days
- 67
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 28 tools in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming by health , between Audioserve (#14) and BotWave (#16) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C++, deb |
| Latest release | v0.35.0 · 8 months ago |
| Stars | 8,038 |
| Open issues | 106 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | snapcast/snapcast ↗ |
Snapcast vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Snapcast (Media Streaming - Audio Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navidrome Music Server | 98 | 24k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Audiobookshelf | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| LMS | 93 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| multi-scrobbler | 92 | 1.3k | MIT | yesterday |
| Pinepods | 92 | 1k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Snapcast (this tool) | 80 | 8k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
Snapcast: common questions
Is Snapcast still maintained?
Snapcast had 27 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.35.0, is from 8 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.