Software Alternatives & Reviews

Porthole VS AirPlay

Compare Porthole VS AirPlay and see what are their differences

Porthole logo Porthole

Play all audio from your Mac through multiple AirPlay speakers at the same time. iOS 11 and macOS 10. 13 High Sierra both add multi-room AirPlay support to the operating sytem, making Porthole redundant.

AirPlay logo AirPlay

AirPlay lets you stream music throughout your entire house — wirelessly.
  • Porthole Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-03
  • AirPlay Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-15

Porthole videos

Porthole Magic Review

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AirPlay videos

AirPlay 2: Everything You Need To Know!

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Porthole and AirPlay)
Audio
37 37%
63% 63
Audio & Music
40 40%
60% 60
Music Streaming
33 33%
67% 67
Tool
100 100%
0% 0

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Porthole and AirPlay, you can also consider the following products

Airfoil - This software is from the Rogue Amoeba company, built to run on Mac and Windows platforms. It’s an audio-based software that allows the computers sound to play over a network device. Read more about Airfoil.

AudioRelay - Listen to your PC audio, use your phone as a mic or stream audio from your phone

StreamToMe - Huge range of supported formats.

SoundWire - SoundWire does audio mirroring (audio cast). You can use any music player on your PC or laptop like Spotify, YouTube, or iTunes and stream low-latency live sound over WiFi directly to your Android device.

Stream What You Hear - Stream What You Hear.

RaopX - RaopX is software that is designed to stream any audio of your PC from your Apple devices by configuring both devices with their IP address.