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.

filter to find the best alternatives

Audacity alternatives are mainly Audio Editors, but if you're looking for Audio Recorders or Audio Converters you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Android, iPad, Open Source, Mac + Free, Online and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Audacity.
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Alternatives
Get a badge for your siteAudacity alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
    |
    1
  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.

    120 AudioMass alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Good alternative?
     
  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
    |
    1
  6. 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
    Good alternative?
     
  7. Wavacity icon
     7 likes

    Wavacity is derived from the open source Audacity and modified to run in the web browser.

    55 Wavacity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  8. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
    |
    1
  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • KDE Plasma
    • Haiku
    Good alternative?
     
    |
    1
  10. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
    Soundop screenshot 1
    Good alternative?
     
  11. 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.

    34 Fission alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Fission screenshot 1
    Good alternative?
     
  12. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
You are at page 2 of Audacity alternatives