Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software.

Supported platforms

Audacity is a fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for:

• Windows 7 and later

• Macintosh OS X 10.6 and later

• Linux/Unix and other *.nix-based systems

For older versions of Audacity that support older operating systems, see https://audacityteam.org/download/#legacy.

Features

For a fuller list of Audacity’s features please see the Features page of our Audacity website.

Supported file formats

Audacity supports several digital audio file formats with support for 24-bit and 32-bit sample formats as well as 16-bit. Supported formats include:

• WAV

• AIFF

• OGG

• MP3

Sound manipulation and analysis

For sound analysis you may use the spectrogram mode or a spectrum analyzer window. Also Audacity has built-in effects and supports the following plug-ins (providing additional effects and processing):

• Audio Unit plug-ins

• LADSPA Plug-ins

• LV2 Plug-ins

• Nyquist Plug-ins

• VST Plug-ins

• Vamp Plug-ins

All plug-ins except Nyquist and Vamp support real-time preview.

Advanced features

Advanced features include:

• Envelope editing

• Mixing of tracks

• Recording overdubs while playing previously recorded tracks

- Scrubbing

• quickly navigate the waveform to find a particular event of interest

• Spectral editing