Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!

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It’s capable of much more than a mere audio editor (for example, non-destructive editing and realtime effects), but it also is lacking some key features which DAWs traditionally have (MIDI editing and virtual instruments). The gap towards being a full DAW is being rapidly closed, with each release bringing new features that make Audacity ...

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Audacity is tested on Windows 10 & Windows 11, and may also work on Windows 8.1, 7 and Vista. Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions are available.

Audacity

multi-platform open-source digital audio recording and editing application

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Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. As of December 6, 2022, Audacity is the most … Wikipedia

Ratings

4.6 / 5.0

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288 votes

Factsheet

Developers Muse Group
The Audacity Team

Initial release May 28, 2000; 25 years ago (2000-05-28)

Stable release 3.7.7 (11 December 2025)

Factsheet

Developers Muse Group
The Audacity Team

Initial release May 28, 2000; 25 years ago (2000-05-28)

Stable release 3.7.7 (11 December 2025)

Wavacity

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Wavacity | Online Audio Editor Based on Audacity

Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.

Discussions

Online version of Audacity - Windows - Audacity Forum

Hi, is there anyone that provides online version of Audacity (type TwistedWave) for editing. I have tested TwistedWave, and it surely feels (and looks) like Audacity. As good as some of the online version are today, the problem is that they run on a server somewhere. More on forum.audacityteam.org

forum.audacityteam.org

January 31, 2017

Any good alternative to Audacity for audio EDITING?

I feel the same way about Audacity and it's terrible. I'm not sure how it even happened - how can an open source project be acquired by a company? But to answer your question: no, that was it. There isn't an alternative. That's what we have. I do the same as you, I just use older versions for my editing and samples. More on reddit.com

r/linuxaudio

April 5, 2024

Any good, free, alternatives to Audacity?

Alright man, Reaper was a great suggestion. It's primarily a DAW (digital audio workstation). I never even knew it had any video functionality. It's a very popular audio editor for a reason, so your response to that was totally unnecessary. If you're looking for something that is a bit more simple like Audacity as opposed to a full-blown DAW, I've had good luck with ocenaudio: https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/startpage . I would definitely give this one a try. More on reddit.com

r/audio

April 19, 2023

Audacity - Why You Should Use it, and Some of the Basics

Audacity is a great application, though if you have a video editor (Sony Vegas/Adobe Premiere) that supports advanced filters like Noise Gates, Equalizers, and other options - I'd strongly recommend you use those over Audacity. I say this because you can literally cut out the middle-man and drag and drop your clips into the editor. Once the clips are dropped in - bam! All the required tweaking/Noise Removal/Equalization and other effects are added on the fly with so little as a click for you to do. If I was still in the business of using Audacity, I'd have to split the audio from my video, apply each effect sequentially (or use a macro), then export the track out back into my video. As of late, all audio editing is now is dropping my clips in and cutting my videos to length. Also: Linked this article in the audio quality tutorial under User-Submitted info. More on reddit.com

r/letsplay

April 6, 2013

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