Best Free Sound Effects // Top 5 Online Sound FX Libraries

These are the 5 best libraries I've found for sound effects, whether you're looking for individual sounds or entire libraries. They're completely free, for personal or commercial use.

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Disclaimer: I'm not sponsored by any of these companies, but some of the links above are affiliate links. They won't cost you any extra, but I get a small commission if you use them.

[RyanGreen]

Any favourite resources that I missed?

[ilikemovies]

This is the exact video I was looking for. Thank you.

[CharacterMatter]

This is so helpful, thank you! Sometimes google searching these things can be unnecessarily tedious and dangerous since some websites out there titled "free" feel quite sketchy haha

[wesisaac]

You've been a great help bro, I'm a college student currently earning my degree in recording arts. I'm one of only a few other students (that I know of) looking to make a career in sound design for film/TV/video games, thank you for helping me find some high quality sounds to begin building my own personal library!

[sdfhsdfghsd]

is it eoungh if i write their name in youtube description? or i have to put in credits in the video?

[petersz]

Ok, I dont know why this is not the top at the search on yt, because the other videos have sponsored or paid sites. Thanks for the good info.

[zakark]

Thanks alotttt man! I kinda dig the format of your videos. You deserve more subs :(

[juanvlogz]

Who who’s what sound affect that is in the beginning with the song with that delay

[bernios]

This is etremely useful and helpful, thank you for putting this together. I mean THANK YOU.

[ajhernandez]

Great Video! You're straight to the point and very informative. You've Earned a SUB from me. Keep Up the great work!

[mania]

@Ryan Green Thanks, Very helpful, one question is what if you download the sound effects from youtube itself from somebody else youtubers? Is that safe to use for youtube monetization? A lot of sound effects on youtube say royalty free in their title or description. So i was wondering if these are safe to use in your videos which you want to upload on youtube for monetization?

Second question is what if you made your own with an music instrumental like a keyboard or a piano and then use it for youtube monetization? the concern here is how to proof you made it if a copyright claim rises up as all keyboards will give exact the same sound for a certain button when playing piano for instance.

Thank you

[Abby_walks]

Great content v helpful. Thanks for not saying ''sign up for Epidemic sound'' like lots of other videos do

[DONK]

Thanks for referred links, I used a few and after signing up with email I was able to download them and apply to video. Cheers!

[dingos_girl_gt]

Thank you for this video, you are the first one that doesn't go "thanks to this sponsor you can access to the audios I will show here" :)

[ithinkaboutthings]

Nice video. I appreciate the info. I use YT Studio for music & completely forgot sound effects were there, too. I’ve looked previously at one or 2 mentioned but now I have a couple more sources. Personally, I think attribution for someone else’s material is a fair trade, especially because some are really well done. Thanks again!

[KelvinSenteza_]

This is awesome! The first library I landed on didn't have what I was looking for and googling these stuff didnt make things any better for me so for a moment I was on a standstill! you're a life saver man

[thelthrythquezada]

the YouTube SFX I had no idea!!! Thank you so much... Now I know how Jacob(Israel) felt/meant when he learned Joseph was still alive "IT IS ENOUGHT!!"

[tuntries]

I just started creating videos and this is a really helpful video. Thank you and i hope your channel grows.

[emojipan]

Is sound effect on YT Audio Library, copyright free? Because i couldn't find the attribution filter for sound effects.

[stefenchapman]

I was trying to find sounds to edit out sounds but I can just copy other background noise from the video. Good stuff!