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213 tools · 87 open-source · 126 SaaS

The best media & streaming tools. Ranked by real activity.

Every media & streaming tool on Enlisted, ordered by GitHub stars, growth and recent releases. Open-source and SaaS options side by side.

The top-ranked open-source media & streaming tool on Enlisted is yt-dlp (195k GitHub stars), followed by OBS Studio and FFmpeg. Among SaaS products, other tools on Enlisted are most often compared with InVideo, VEED and Spotify.

Enlisted lists 213 media & streaming tools: 87 open source and 126 SaaS. 83 of the open-source ones can be self-hosted on your own server or computer. The most common open-source licences here are GPL-3.0 (30 tools), AGPL-3.0 (22) and MIT (8). The open-source ones are most often listed as alternatives to Tidal, YouTube Music and Kobo.

Last updated October 3, 2026 · ranked by GitHub stars, growth and recent commits

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Media & streaming tools: questions

What is the best open-source media & streaming tool?
yt-dlp is the top-ranked open-source media & streaming tool on Enlisted, with 195k GitHub stars. It is followed by OBS Studio, FFmpeg and Jellyfin.
What are the best free media & streaming tools?
The top-ranked open-source media & streaming tools with a standard licence are yt-dlp (Unlicense), OBS Studio (GPL-2.0) and Jellyfin (GPL-2.0), so their code is free to use. 71 of the 126 SaaS products here have a free plan, including VEED, Descript and Opus Clip.
Which media & streaming tools can be self-hosted?
83 of the 87 open-source media & streaming tools on Enlisted can be self-hosted on your own server or computer; the top-ranked are OBS Studio, Jellyfin and Spotube.
How are these media & streaming tools ranked?
Open-source tools are ordered by a score built from GitHub stars, star growth over the last 30 days and how recently the code changed; 78 of the 87 had new commits or a release in the last 30 days. SaaS products have no public repository, so they get a fixed baseline score. GitHub data is refreshed daily, and nobody can pay to move up.