OpenMeters is a fast and simple audio metering application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire. It’s in active development.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- General:
- Bar mode
- Places the application at the top or bottom of the screen, spanning the entire width
- (Relies on the wlr-layer-shell protocol; requires a Wayland compositor)
- Per-application capture
- Per-device capture
- Pop-out windows for individual visuals
- Adjustable background color & opacity
- Ability to enable/disable window decorations
- Bar mode
- Visuals:
- loudness
- LUFS (ITU-R BS.1770-5)
- Short-term
- Momentary
- RMS
- Fast
- Slow
- True Peak
- oscilloscope
- Channel selection (L, R, L+R)
- Stable mode — follows X cycles of the fundamental.
- Free-run mode — scrolls continuously through time, not triggered.
- spectrogram
- Reassignment and synchrosqueezing (sharper frequency resolution)
- Note & frequency tooltips
- Piano roll overlay
- Ability to zoom & pan vertically
- Mel, log, and linear scales
- Adjustable colormap
- spectrum analyzer
- Peak frequency label
- Averaging modes
- Exponential
- Peak hold
- None
- Mel, log, and linear scales
- Bar mode
- Adjustable colormap
- stereometer (X/Y vector scope, M/S goniometer)
- Correlation meter
- Single or multi-band
- Adjustable time window
- Two visual modes:
- Lissajous (draws lines between samples)
- Dot cloud (plots samples as points)
- Ability to flip L/R channels (for M/S monitoring)
- Adjustable scale (linear/exponential)
- Adjustable rotation
- Correlation meter
- waveform
- Channel selection (L, R, L+R)
- Adjustable scroll speed
- Adjustable colormap
- LUFS (ITU-R BS.1770-5)
- loudness
Website: github.com/httpsworldview/openmeters
Support:
Developer: Maika Namuo
License: MIT License

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