A powerful synthesizing tool that enables users to create and edit songs by inputting melodies and lyrics, adjusting pronunciations, applying effects like vibrato, and modifying vocal dynamics and tones for a realistic singing experience.


UTAU is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is VOCALOID. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenUTAU or Alter/Ego. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to UTAU and seven of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to UTAU are Synthesizer V, Emvoice, Cadencii and Chipspeech.
A powerful synthesizing tool that enables users to create and edit songs by inputting melodies and lyrics, adjusting pronunciations, applying effects like vibrato, and modifying vocal dynamics and tones for a realistic singing experience.


Synthesizer V is a vocal synthesizer developed by Kanru Hua, aiming for "artistic perfection of artificial voices".

The voices are very limited in style and you can't add your own ones.
it produces very nice English Vocals, it has a bit of a learning curve. It is better if you want English vocals but as of November 2, 2018 there aren't any Japanese vocals or any other languages.


Almost everyone thinks Synthesizer V is a great UTAU alternative.
OpenUtau is an open source editing environment for UTAU community with modern user experience.


Alter/Ego is based on the award winning technology featured in chipspeech but instead of targeting Vintage voice technology, it focuses on more ‘modern’ (1990+) singing synthesis algorithms and research.


We're building a Text-to-Voice engine that can sing and speak expressively. We're giving music producers access to the only virtual instrument they lack: the human voice.



Cadencii is a program that allows cross-importation of vocal MIDI, VSQ, UST, and VSQX files. It supports both UTAU and Vocaloid voice banks.

It supports Vocaloid voicebanks as well as UTAU ones already making it a better alternative. It also has the Vocaloid 2 interface which makes it easier to use. If you want an easier interface to use your UTAU on, this is one. The only downside is that it has a bit of an obnoxious metallic noise for some voicebanks.


chipspeech is a vintage-style speech synthesizer which recreates the sound of famous 80's voice synthesis chips. It features 12 different voices, each with its own characteristic timbre. It is specially tailored for musical needs – simply type in your lyrics, and then play...
It has a perpetual free trial, the engine/resampler is on par with Vocaloid's quality, and it's easy to use - you don't have to learn about a lot of technical things like you do with UTAU. As of April 2019, it now supports English, Japanese and Chinese.