Audacity

Great program for something that is free, although I did have a hard time trying to do what I wanted to and found it just a bit too complicated for my taste.

Audacity is a powerful free and open source app, but the interface is clunky in my opinion. I find Adobe Audition so much better, but it's also very expensive..

These days, the only thing Audacity has going for it is that its open source. Its a shame I haven't found an open source competitor to really step up to the plate.

The interface is clunky and clashes with most modern OS theming designs (I personally think Audacity's design fits best in MacOS Tiger from 2005 https://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/21000/21255/audacity-16.jpg )

Some other complaints: No smart snapping, you have to eyeball pretty much everything. Uses an ancient version of ffmpeg on Windows, which I understand why you have to download, but they have you download from a very sketchy looking website.

And some compliments: It has a lot of good effects that I am happy are in audacity, overall it has a good set of features.
Also stable. I haven't had it crash on me yet.

So I am rating this two stars because I'm using a dark GTK and KDE theme, which means my text is white, but the settings in audacity are also white. I can't see the text. I also can't see some other options because... like I said theming is bad. There is no simple fix besides switching to a theme that uses black text.
I will be using Ocenaudio.

While I use it regularly, the UI is lacking (if not outdated). Effect selection is tedious.
It gets the job done in the end, but it could do with an upgrade.

I've used Audacity for a long long time, everything from editing early music attempts, to podcasts, to interview audio. It's definitely not the most powerful software in the world, but for the price of free, it does plenty.