Audacity Alternatives

Audacity is described as 'Free open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with 32-bit float processing. Supports many formats and plugins for Windows, macOS, Linux' and is a leading Audio Recorder in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Audacity for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Audacity alternative is Ocenaudio, which is free. Other great apps like Audacity are Tenacity, WavePad, Adobe Audition and MixPad.

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  1. Every track includes real time equalization and dynamics processing to sweeten and fine tune your mix. This is in addition to your six real time track effects, making Fairlight far more powerful than other digital audio workstation software!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Wavosaur icon
     40 likes

    Wavosaur is a cool free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.

    50 Wavosaur alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Wavosaur vs Audacity Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    best 4 chop loop & clips. no multi track.

    • Wavosaur is Free and ProprietaryAudacity is Free and Open Source
    • Wavosaur is an Audio Editor Audacity is an Audio Recording
  3. AudioMass icon
     14 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Mastering is one of the most important parts of the music production process. It is a unique art and, for 25 years, WaveLab has been the number one choice for mastering professionals. WaveLab is a complete mastering solution, with every tool that you will ever need to cover your...

    48 Steinberg WaveLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. Audio recorder with custom recording folder, nice recording volume indicator, recording notification, recording lock screen activity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  6. DarkAudacity icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Discontinued

    The 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.

    DarkAudacity vs Audacity Comments
    Danilo Venom
    Positive
    0

    As a fork of the original Audacity, DarkAudacity can read mogg MultiTrack files too

    • DarkAudacity is Free and Open SourceAudacity is also Free and Open Source
    • DarkAudacity is an Audio Editor Audacity is an Audio Recording
    • DarkAudacity is Privacy focusedAudacity is not according to our users
  7. Sneedacity icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Discontinued

    The latest version (2022.03) is from March 2022.

    Sneedacity vs Audacity Comments
    stevetf
    3

    Another dead fork of Audacity.

    • Sneedacity is Free and Open SourceAudacity is also Free and Open Source
    • Sneedacity is an Audio Editor Audacity is an Audio Recording
    • Sneedacity is Privacy focusedAudacity is not according to our users
  8. Soundop icon
     2 likes

    Soundop is a Windows-based audio editing software with features for recording, editing, mastering, and mixing audio. It offers waveform and spectral editing, and supports unlimited audio and bus tracks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Kwave icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • KDE Plasma
    • Haiku
     
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    Kwave vs Audacity Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    It's extremely limited in functionality

    • Kwave is Free and Open SourceAudacity is also Free and Open Source
    • Kwave is an Audio Editor Audacity is an Audio Recording
  10. Fission icon
     14 likes

    With Fission, audio editing is no longer a chore. You can join files, crop and trim audio, and rapidly split up long files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Surco icon
     2 likes

    Convert, tag, check audio quality and organize DJ tracks in one app — what used to take five apps, in seconds.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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