Open-source digital audio editor and recording application
Audacity Audacity Version 3.6 screenshot showing the timeline, tracks, and basic controls
Developer(s) Muse Group The Audacity TeamInitial release May 28, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-05-28 ) Stable release 3.7.0[ 1] (30 October 2024) [±]
Repository Written in C , C++ (using the wxWidgets toolkit )[ 2] [ 3] Operating system Windows , macOS , Linux , other Unix-like systems[ 4] [ 5] Platform IA-32 , x86-64 , PowerPC Size 15.9 MB : Windows 26.9 MB: macOS 53.3 MB: macOS Universal 115 MB: Linux 25 MB: manual Available in 38 languages List of languages
Afrikaans , Arabic , Basque , Bulgarian , Catalan , Chinese (simplified) , Chinese (traditional) , Corsican , Czech , Danish , Dutch , English , Finnish , French , Galician , German , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Irish , Italian , Japanese , Lithuanian , Macedonian , Marathi , Norwegian (Bokmål ), Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Swedish , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese and Welsh Type Digital audio editor License GPL v2 or later , CC-BY-3.0 (documentation)[ 6]
[ 7] Website www .audacityteam .org
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software , available for Windows , macOS , Linux , and other Unix-like operating systems.[ 4] [ 5]
As of December 6, 2022, Audacity is the most popular download at FossHub,[ 8] with over 114.2 million downloads since March 2015. It was previously served by Google Code and SourceForge , where it was downloaded over 200 million times. It is now part of Muse Group .
It is licensed under GPL-2.0 or later . Executables with VST3 support are licensed GPL-3-only to maintain license compatibility.[ 6] [ 7]
^ "Audacity 3.7.0" . October 30, 2024. Retrieved October 30, 2024 .
^ SourceForge (July 2004). "Project of the Month July 2004 – Audacity" . Archived from the original on December 23, 2008. Retrieved November 27, 2008 .
^ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2004). "E-Commerce and Development Report 2004" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved November 27, 2008 .
^ a b "Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder" . audacityteam.org . Archived from the original on March 14, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2012 .
^ a b "About Audacity" . audacityteam.org . Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2012 .
^ a b Audacity Team. "License" . Audacity . Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2021 .
^ a b "audacity/audacity" . June 14, 2022. Archived from the original on June 14, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2022 – via GitHub.
^ FossHub.com. "Download Audacity" . Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2017 .