Top 5 Best Free Audacity Alternatives (Audio Editors)

Earlier this year the popular audio editor Audacity was acquired by Muse Group. Since then they’ve been criticized for making changes to their privacy policy which includes invasive data collection practices occasionally being required to share your personal data with their main office in Russia and external counsel in the US. So if you’re concerned with the recent changes with many now claiming it’s spyware, I’ll countdown the Top 5 Audacity alternatives you can use for free.

“Free Software” Playlist
Top 10 Free Alternatives to Expensive Software!

0:00 Intro
0:32 Don’t Update Audacity
0:57 Online Audio Editor
1:53 Great for Older Computers
2:35 Video Editor with Excellent Audio Tools
3:22 Dark Themed Fork of Audacity
3:58 Honorable Mentions
5:03 Easy, Powerful and Fast

Ardour
Bear Audio
Dark Audacity
DaVinci Resolve (Fairlight Audio Tools)
GarageBand
Ocenaudio
Shotcut
Wavosaur

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[old-moose]

Sad news about Audacity and thanks for this review. I'm a retired edtech facilitator and now spend my time doing tech support for seniors in our senior's center. Your videos are a great help to me. Thanks.

[gus]

👍🏼 Appreciate the heads up on Audacity changes, which was news to me! ✌🏼😎

[Richie]

Options to edit audio files for free other than Audacity, are immensely useful to get better audio.

[duboisad]

As a recent Mac-to-PC convert, CyberLink AudioDirector is the closest thing I've found to a GarageBand clone. So that's worth looking into if you're a GB fan but miss the familiarity of the other Windows options.

[nikhileshhc]

Best of the best, worthy, useful channel 🔥🔥

[dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-]

How could they have the audacity to do this...

[NYDFAN]

Thanks for specifying that last Audacity version without telemetry. Now if I can just remember never to update...

[earthlightsmusic]

I’ll keep my current Audacity because I’m not interested in upgrading it, but it’s a good editing accessory for Cockos Reaper, which I paid for and do upgrade occasionally.

[sapelesteve]

Another excellent video from TG! Glad that I have the old version of Audacity! 👍😉

[PrateekSrivastava]

"Dark Audacity would have been number 1 on our list if it was available for Linux and Mac"

Me, a Windows user: That's all you had to say fam

[LaZZeYT]

How about tenacity? It was the first fork after the privacy changes. It's just audacity with the spying removed. I'd highly recommend it.

[HazelRoseWebs]

im lazy, so ive been sticking to my version for a year or so now. i dont plan on updating at all. but thank u for the heads up on the 3.0.3 changes!

[elketerbentzadik]

I saw the headline and was like "Wait, isn't Audacity free?" Had no idea about all the drama.

[NadiaThePoet]

Cheer downloading Ocenaudio now. Much appreciated

[thebritishindian]

Brilliant! My Adobe CC subscription ends in January and I use Audition as my main podcast editor. I will not be buying their overpriced software again.

[billyhooks]

Kind of surprised that Reaper wasn't mentioned. Very powerful digital audio worstation.

[niranjanbehera]

Thank you man!
I thought Audacity was open source. Now that I know this, I will never upgrade Audacity

[alikig.]

Great video! A suggestion: a free online youtube to mp3 converter

[manti]

Good list luckily I've got Soundforge I got it cheap won't be updating my Audacity now I know what version has the big change

[ngtskynebula]

Thank you for this. Unfortunately, AlternativeTo's recommended options didn't do it for me 😮‍💨