Performous vs TKaraoke

Performous is free software combining karaoke, band games, and dancing on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its modes include vocals, lead, rhythm and bass guitar, drums, and dancing, with multiplayer support. Scored singing shows pitch so players can adjust their performance; karaoke mode displays lyrics without notes or scoring. The project says pitch detection works with laptop or webcam microphones. Controllers are autodetected, and the game can use a keyboard, microphones, USB guitars and drums, and dance pads. Supported song formats include Frets on Fire, UltraStar, SingStar XML, and StepMania. Composer edits and converts notes for music games, offering pitch analysis, zoomable timing, note synthesis, and format import and export. Composer lists SingStar XML, UltraStar TXT, and Frets on Fire MIDI formats. Free karaoke song packages are available under different libre and restricted license terms. The site says its free-song page does not yet include band-game or dancing songs. Performous is licensed under GNU GPL version 2 or later, with documentation, Discord, and a GitHub feedback page.

TKaraoke is a karaoke player that indexes thousands of songs and lets users search by song name, singer, songwriter, or lyric text. It can play YouTube content as if it were on a local hard drive. The Songbook controller app lets phones, tablets, or laptops control TKaraoke editions; Songbook 2 is available free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. On Android TV, TKaraokeUSB plays songs from an external USB drive without a song server on a computer. It supports 4K songs on capable devices, voice search in English or Vietnamese, and formats including MKV, MP4, VOB, AVI, M4V, and MPG. The TKaraokeUSB free version is limited to 1000 songs. TKaraokePro2 runs only on 64-bit computers running Windows 7 or newer. Its demo key costs $1, paid once and stops songs after two minutes; the full key costs $100, paid once and unlocks Pro features, with free lifetime upgrades stated. The product is listed for Android, iOS, and Windows.