Free WavePad Audio Editing Software

WavePad Audio Editing SoftwareStudio Audio Editing Software Anyone Can UseThis audio editing software is a full-featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files, you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings, and then add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav or mp3 editor, but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg, and more.
Whether you’re a professional sound engineer or just want to manipulate audio files for home use, WavePad offers the powerful tools and features you need to create your own custom soundtrack. Download WavePad today and hear the difference!
Whether you’re a professional sound engineer or just want to manipulate audio files for home use, WavePad offers the powerful tools and features you need to create your own custom soundtrack. Download WavePad today and hear the difference!
Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Free software is not just free of cost (like "free beer"). It is free as in freedom (like "free speech"). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it and share it with others. For more information, visit the Free Software Foundation.
Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
We welcome donations to support Audacity development. Anyone can contribute to Audacity by helping us with documentation, translations, user support and by testing our latest code.
Ohloh has statistics on the value of Audacity development. The Ohloh "badge" at the bottom of each page on this site shows updated summary values. We set up the Ohloh pages about Audacity so the statistics show only the values of Audacity-specific development, excluding the third-party code libraries Audacity uses.
Comments from those who selected Audacity
Free software is not just free of cost (like "free beer"). It is free as in freedom (like "free speech"). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it and share it with others. For more information, visit the Free Software Foundation.
Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
We welcome donations to support Audacity development. Anyone can contribute to Audacity by helping us with documentation, translations, user support and by testing our latest code.
Ohloh has statistics on the value of Audacity development. The Ohloh "badge" at the bottom of each page on this site shows updated summary values. We set up the Ohloh pages about Audacity so the statistics show only the values of Audacity-specific development, excluding the third-party code libraries Audacity uses.
Comments from those who selected Audacity
- “open source Audio editing in an easy way.” Andreas Busing
- “fabulous free software for recording podcasts” Don Taylor
- “One of the best (free) audio tools out there” B J Schone
- “Audio is a versatile option for an elearning. With the free Audacity tool it is easy to produce, edit and publish audio as an MP3 or other file formats.” Steve Rayson
- “Though I use iTunes to manage my music, this is only because it works well with my iPod. And I use an iPod only because my iRiver was smashed and can’t be replaced. My real audio application – the tool I use to create, edit and convert audio files – is Audacity. What I like is the ability to work in multiple file formats, to record long chunks of content, easy editing and content filtering (including noise removal) and to output in small MP3 files.” Stephen Downes
- “while there are other great audio programs, you cannot beat the functionality for the price!” Audrey Williams”A robust sound recording/editing tool and it is open source.” Guy Boulet
- “In the past I used Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge, but Audacity does everything I need. The large library of plugins add all the functionality I think I might ever need. It’s free and open source too.” Charles Jennings
- “This easy to use FREE audio editing software is easy to use for podcasting and editing audio files. You will need the LAME Mp3 encoder if you want to export your audio files at MP3 instead of WAV – but it’s easy to download and install.” Colette Cassinelli
- “I adore free stuff – this is a sound recorder and precision editor – nothing more, nothing less” Phil Green
- “easy, functional audio recording tool for podcasting” Nick Hood
- “a tool that is free and easy to download and use to record students” Ramona Dietrich
- “A free tool from SourceForge.net, I use this to edit podcasts and convert audio files” Michael McVey
- “Educational content delivery is greatly simplified when one does not have to worry about the receiver’s ability to open it. With .pdf, I know that students will be viewing my files precisely the way I want the content viewed.” Britt Watwood
- “still simple, still perfect” Patrick Higgins
- “Simple audio editing for recording and editing audio for courses and podcasts” Seaghan Moriarty
- “Easy to use, free audio editor” Mike Taylor
- “i never imagined i’d be able to edit audio files, especially on the run – this program can be run from a portable drive, eg usb stick, or even from the iRiver that recorded audio with internal microphone .. open source.” Michael Chalk
- “I am a big believer in open source tools and this one does everything the expensive programs do.” Susan Quinn