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Sonic Pi

Code-based music creation.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its Winget manifest: accessibility features.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Accessible for blind and partially sighted people.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Sonic Pi is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its content is under a Creative Commons licence (MIT & CC-BY-SA-4.0+): check the attribution requirement and any non-commercial restriction.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. Simple enough for computing and music lessons. Powerful enough for professional musicians. Free to download with a friendly tutorial. Diverse community of over 1.8 million live coders. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical & Jazz to Grime & EDM.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
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  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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