Tenacity
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Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Haiku
- FreeBSD
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Updated 10-2-2026
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The official website (github repo) has no downloadable release for Windows.
EDIT: Reading through the readme from their github repo, you can find nightly builds with installers. Worth it!
This is now a positive comment. (I can't change it nor delete it)
There is Windows builds now.
Tenacity is basically Audacity before it turned to crap. It's less buggy (at least on my machine). And, it doesn't have Audacity's "playback looping" feature that I find infuriating because I keep accidentally enabling it while editing, and there is no provision to turn it completely off.
been using this since the big audacity data farming issue. ui is simple and user friendly. scales nicely.
It's a very good fork of Audacity
I want to give this a positive review. It works well on my Windows machines, but on my main Linux machines, there's no repo or appimage. I attempted to compile using their detailed steps, but it keeps failing, likely because they're requiring an outdated wxWidgets.
Tenacity is available as a Flatpak via Flathub.
I appreciate that, but I'm not comfortable installing another repository for a single app.
Not comfortable using a Flatpak? Alrighty then.... If it was a Snap package, I could kind of understand not wanting to use it.
not sure what to think about, downloaded from Codeberg, got a warning from Windows Defender what for me not happend on Open Source Software in a while, so i checked it the latest and 3 previous versions on Virustotal. "tenacity-win-v1.3.1-x86_64.exe" 1 Detection: Bkav Pro - W32.AIDetectMalware "tenacity-win-v1.3-beta3-x86_64.exe" 1 Detection: MaxSecure - Trojan.Malware.121218.susgen "tenacity-win-1.3.0-x86_64.exe" 0 Detection "saucedacity-1.2.1-win-x86_64.zip" 0 Detection so can anyone tell me if in the latest version its just a false positive?
False positives there are over 56 engines, all detect nothing expect 3. And even of those 3, 2 state unsafe so nothing detailed and when run on any.run you can see no external connections.
Mirrors on Github https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity\
Downloadable pre-built files from the release.(Saucedacity) https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases\
I think it's a good fork.