Audacity - The World's Most Popular Audio Editing and Recording App

Audacity The World's Most Popular Audio Editing and Recording App

What is Audacity?

Audacity is a user-friendly, multi-track audio editor and recorder compatible with Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This free and open-source software allows users to work with all major audio formats, facilitating conversions between WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg, and more.

Audacity supports a wide variety of third-party plugins, including VST3 and Nyquist, significantly expanding its capabilities. Users can also perform in-depth audio analysis through the Spectrogram view for visualizing frequencies or utilize Vamp analyzers for detailed scientific analysis.

Features

Cross-platform: Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Import, export, convert: Supports all major audio formats (WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg, etc.).
Plugin support: Compatible with various third-party plugins (VST3, Nyquist, etc.).
Deep audio analysis: Spectrogram view for frequency visualization and Vamp analyzer support.

Use Cases

Podcast production
Voice-over recording
Music recording and editing
Audio format conversion
Audio analysis and research
Recording memos

FAQs

Who is Audacity for?

Audacity is for anyone who wants to get creative with sound. It’s also the perfect tool for anyone who needs to quickly edit or export audio, for any reason.
Is Audacity open source?

Audacity is proudly open source. This means its source code remains open to anyone to view or modify. A dedicated worldwide community of passionate audio lovers have collaborated to make Audacity the well-loved software it is today. Many third-party plugins have also been developed for Audacity thanks to its open source nature.