Ardour
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Audacity
Record, trim, mix, and process audio in a multitrack desktop editor.
GPL-3.0 · Downloads from github.com
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- audacity
- Verified
- 2026
About Audacity
Audacity offers a timeline for recording voices or instruments, editing clips, and combining tracks. Effects and analysis tools help clean up or reshape a recording.
Use it for podcast edits, voiceovers, and other audio projects that benefit from seeing individual tracks and waveforms.
Information
- Source code
- audacity/audacity
- License
- GPL-3.0-only
- Website
- audacityteam.org
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Media
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/audacity/audacity
- github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/README.md
- github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
- icon.png: Audacity contributors. GPL-3.0-only; project trademarks remain with their owners.
License and artwork notices
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