Free GoldWave Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to GoldWave for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Audacity, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to GoldWave and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to GoldWave are Tenacity, Ocenaudio, WavePad and Wavosaur.

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  1. Audacity icon
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    Audacity, a free open-source multi-track editor, enables high-quality audio processing across platforms. Supports diverse formats, plugins, and scripting languages, offering robust features like batching, visual tools, and accessibility.

    125 Audacity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AppImageHub
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
     
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    • Most users think Audacity is a great GoldWave alternative.

    • Audacity is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to GoldWave.

    • Audacity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GoldWave.

    • Audacity is Free and Open SourceGoldWave is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Tenacity icon
     108 likes

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

    87 Tenacity alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Haiku
     
  3. Ocenaudio icon
     142 likes

    Ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.

    47 Ocenaudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. WavePad icon
     46 likes

    Comprehensive audio editing software for Windows and macOS, offering recording, editing tools like cut, copy, paste, effects, batch processing, file format support, integration with MixPad, spectral analysis, text-to-speech, and audio restoration. Export to video or audio.

    56 WavePad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
     
    • WavePad is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to GoldWave.

    • WavePad is Freemium and ProprietaryGoldWave is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Wavosaur icon
     39 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Sneedacity icon
     5 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
     
  7. DarkAudacity icon
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    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
     
  8. AudMonkey icon
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    "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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Zynewave Podium icon
     12 likes

    Podium is a modern digital audio workstation (DAW) for Windows. It supports recording and editing of audio and MIDI, and hosts VST instrument and effect plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Wave Corrector offers an integrated solution to record, clean-up and convert your music to digital audio formats. The program uses advanced digital processing to remove noise from old analogue recordings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. WaveShop icon
     20 likes

    WaveShop is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7. WaveShop is fast, lightweight, and bit-perfect, meaning samples aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched.

    72 WaveShop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  12. Power Sound Editor is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data.

    59 Power Sound Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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