Nuclear
- About
- Open-source desktop music player that streams from many sources. Open-source alternative to Spotify.
- Catalogue
- No. 327
- Category
- Media
- GitHub stars
- ★ 0

Overview
Nuclear is an open-source music player for Windows, macOS and Linux. You search for artists, albums and tracks, and it finds a stream for each song across multiple sources, with plugins adding more. There are no ads and no account to sign up for.
What it does well
Nuclear has artist pages with biographies and discographies, album pages, a queue with shuffle and repeat, favorites and playlists you can import from other services or JSON files. It shows synced lyrics, keeps a local listening history with stats, and lets you see which source a track is playing from and switch to another. A plugin store, custom CSS themes, phone control by QR code, MPD client support and an MCP server for AI agents round it out.
Why it’s in the collection
Nuclear gives you a Spotify-style library and player without a subscription or tracking, and its plugin system means the community can add sources as they come and go. It's AGPL-licensed.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Commits
- 0
- Repository
- nukeop/nuclear
Languages
- TypeScript 85.1%
- Rust 10.3%
- Astro 2.5%
- Other 2.1%
Compared with
SpotifyCommercial music streaming service on a subscription.
YouTube MusicGoogle's music streaming service.
NavidromeNo. 192Open-source server for streaming your own music collection.
See every open-source alternative to Spotify in the collection.



