Released in September 2026, Audacity 4 is the biggest renovation in its 25-year history, from the UI to clip-based editing.

Launched in 2000, Audacity is one of the world’s most popular apps for audio editing and recording, having accrued hundreds of millions of downloads over its 26-year lifespan. It’s not hard to see why ...

Audacity released its Version 4.0 update today, bringing a fresh coat of paint and a number of new features for the popular free and open-source audio editor. This is the biggest update since Version ...

Audacity 4.0 brings a fundamentally new Qt-based interface, a new clip model, and the .aup4 format. Some functions are still missing.

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Audio editing tools -- much like photo editors -- can be both incredibly expensive, and tremendously complex. Audacity has long served as an alternative to such apps, and with the release of Audacity ...

In recent years, recorded audio has undergone a renaissance thanks to the breakthrough of podcasts. It’s now easy to record audio and share it online, and things that used to require access to a ...