Audacity (audio editor)

Audacity
Audacity
	Audacity showing the timeline, tracks, and basic controls
Developers	Muse Group ; The Audacity Team
Initial release	May 28, 2000
Stable release	3.7.7 (11 December 2025) [±]
Written in	C, C++ (using the wxWidgets toolkit)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, other Unix-like systems
Platform	IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC
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)
Website	www.audacityteam.org
Repository	github.com/audacity/audacity ;

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.

As of February 15, 2026, Audacity is the second most popular download at FossHub, 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 has been part of Muse Group since 2021.

It is licensed under GPL-2.0 or later. Executables with VST3 support are licensed GPL-3-only to maintain license compatibility.