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Audacity
Best for: Free multi-track audio recording and editing.
- Best for
- Free multi-track audio recording and editing
- Developer
- Audacity Team
- Price
- Free (open source)
- Our testing
- Not yet hands-on tested
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Pricing options
Audacity
Free
Open source
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Features
- Multi-track audio recording and editing
- Noise reduction and effects
- Plugin support (VST3, LV2 and more)
- Wide format support
- Spectrogram view
Benefits and disadvantages
Benefits
- Free with no watermark
- Good for podcasts and voice editing
- Cross-platform
- Large tutorial base
Disadvantages (cons)
- Dated interface
- Destructive editing by default
- Limited MIDI and music production
- Telemetry controversy in the past drove some users to forks
Who should use Audacity
- Podcasters on a budget
- Students and teachers
- Anyone needing quick audio edits
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