Open Source Audacity Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Audacity is Tenacity. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Audacity and 18 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Audacity are KWave, DarkAudacity, Spek and AudioMass.
Audacity alternatives are mainly Audio Editors but may also be Audio Recorders or Music Production Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Audacity.Tenacity
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
- Audio Recorder
- Digital Audio Workstation
87 Tenacity alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems.
- - Tenacity is the most popular Open Source alternative to Audacity.
Tenacity Features
Comments about Tenacity as a Alternative to Audacity
Trevor VanceIt's a fork of Audacity started when they added some questionable privacy policy changes.
6RemovedUserA good alternative to Audacity as it is just a fork that removes any privacy concerns.
5Arkl1teHas no downloadable build release for Windows
-1stevetfTenacity appears to be a dead fork of Audacity.
2It is the audacity fork made after audacity was bought and started to have bullshit put in by a company.
0KWave
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
- Audio Recorder
27 KWave alternatives- Linux
Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment.
With Kwave you can record, play back, import and edit many sorts of audio files including multi-channel files. Kwave includes some plugins to transform audio files in several ways and presents a graphical view wit.
KWave Features
Comments about KWave as a Alternative to Audacity
It's extremely limited in functionality
0DarkAudacity
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
- Audio Recorder
121 DarkAudacity alternatives- Windows
DarkAudacity is a build/fork of the the well known free sound editor, Audacity, customized with a darker, more modern theme - and a few small tweaks. The audio engine underneath is the same audio engine. The same code powers it. Like Audacity, it is completely free.
DarkAudacity Features
DiscontinuedThe project seems no longer developed since 2019. Last version, 2.3.2, released in May 2019, can be still downloaded from FossHub. The GitHub page shows an older version (2.1.3) that dates back to 2016.
Comments about DarkAudacity as a Alternative to Audacity
Danilo_VenomAs a fork of the original Audacity, DarkAudacity can read mogg MultiTrack files too
0Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.
Spek Features
Comments about Spek as a Alternative to Audacity
Audacity is an audio editor. Calling Spek an alternative to Audacity would be like calling a tire an alternative to an automobile.
4This isn't an audio editor.
0Not an audio track editor.
0It's not an audio editor!
0audacity is a full-blown audio track editor, spek is just a mere spectrum analyser
14AudioMass
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
117 AudioMass alternatives- Online
- Self-Hosted
AudioMass lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx.
- - AudioMass is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Audacity.
AudioMass Features
Sneedacity
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
- Audio Recorder
- Digital Audio Workstation
109 Sneedacity alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Sneedacity (named after Sneed's Feed and Seed from The Simpsons episode, "E-I-E-I-D'oh") is a free (libre), open source, and privacy-respecting audio recording and editing suite forked from Audacity.
Sneedacity Features
Comments about Sneedacity as a Alternative to Audacity
stevetfAnother dead fork of Audacity.
2Wavacity
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo50 Wavacity alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Audio Editor
- Online
Wavacity is derived from the open source Audacity and modified to run in the web browser.
Wavacity Features