Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems.


There are many alternatives to Audacity for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is Tenacity. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Audacity and 11 are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Audacity are Sneedacity, Kwave, AudMonkey and Ecasound.
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems.


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.
Kwave is a sound editor that can record to, play, open, and edit many file formats. Kwave makes it simple to edit audio in many ways.


"The free and open source audio editor" is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It is a fork of Audacity that respects your privacy and the GNU License.

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

Vocalis provides a simple and modern interface that provides a straight-forward way to record and play audio. It allows you to do basic editing, and create voice memos.


Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more. The goal of Frinika is to be a complete platform for making music with your...





GTK Wave Cleaner is a GUI application to remove noise (hiss, pops and clicks) from audio files in WAV and similar formats.

A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.




Hmmm I'll need to check this, considering Audacity can send data to China now :/ So sad...