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Audacity

Name: Audacity
Author: Muse Group / Audacity Team

Free audio editor and recorder

Not rated yetUpdated last monthv3.6.4

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Audacity is distributed by Muse Group / Audacity Team. The button opens audacityteam.org — we do not host or repackage this program.

About Audacity

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for the jobs that come up constantly: record from a microphone or line input, trim and rearrange, remove noise and hum, normalise levels, and export. It edits destructively on a waveform, which is exactly the right model for cleaning up a recording rather than producing music.

The effect set covers noise reduction, click removal, compression, equalisation, pitch and tempo change independent of each other, and spectral editing for surgical fixes. It supports 32-bit float processing, LADSPA/LV2/VST plugins, and Nyquist scripting for batch work through macros.

Free software under the GPL. Third parties may host and redistribute it.

Key features

Multi-track recording and destructive waveform editing
Noise reduction, click removal and hum removal
Independent pitch and tempo change
Spectrogram view with spectral editing
32-bit float processing and LADSPA / LV2 / VST plugin support
Macros and Nyquist scripting for batch processing

Screenshots

Placeholder artwork from the development seed — not captures of the real program.

System requirements

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) / macOS 10.15 or newer / Linux

2 GB RAM

About 300 MB of free disk space plus room for recordings

Changelog

v3.6.4Jul 15, 2026
Catalog entry updated for Audacity 3.6.4. Official release notes are published by Muse Group / Audacity Team at https://www.audacityteam.org.
v3.5.1Jun 21, 2026
Previous version tracked by this catalog entry.