Free Audio Recording Software For Macbook Air

What is Audacity for Mac

Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What's new in Audacity

Version 3.1.0.0:

Smaller changes:

Context menus have been added in more places.
In the preferences, Tracks > Track behaviors > Editing a clip can move other clips is now disabled by default
The spectrogram defaults have been changed: scale type to Mel (was Linear), top of scale to 20000 Hz (was 8000 Hz), window size to 2048 (was 1024), and zero padding to 2 (was 1).
The main volume controls no longer change the system volume.
Raw Import now will remember the previously used settings. Automatic detection of the format now is a button.
A journaling feature has been added for QA purposes.
Generate > Tone now supports triangle waves.
There now exist "What's new" screens for the update and welcome dialogs.
Timeline Quick Play for regions and locked regions have been replaced by playback looping.
The shortcut to rename labels and clip names has temporarily been hardcoded to Ctrl+F2.
This conflicts with the default xfce shortcut to change workspaces.

Library changes:

FFMPEG now supports avformat 55, 57 and 58.
PortAudio has been updated to version 19.7 and devendored (so it can be built against 19.6).
Several libraries (expat, libsndfile, ...) have been devendored. The CMakeLists.txt lists which versions we build against.

Fixed Bugs:

AppImages support localization.
Progress bars for Nyquist generators have been made more accurate.
Rhythm tracks can no longer drift off-time by 2ms over 9 minutes; they're now sample-accurate.
The play button has regained a pixel or two to become a triangle once more.
Auto Duck has been made way more accurate and should no longer miss sections above the threshold.
The manual now only is included in the executable once
Shift-clicking a menu item no longer opens the settings menu
FFMPEG no longer segfaults ALSA
Audacity no longer crashes when macros output directory is set to C
A bouncing ball of death problem has been fixed

Derekcurrie

Aug 26 2021

3.0.4.0

Aug 26 2021

Version: 3.0.4.0

If the link above for Audacity dumps you at an XML server page, try this URL: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

Derekcurrie

Jul 27 2021

3.0.3.0

Jul 27 2021

Version: 3.0.3.0

If the link to Audacity fails, use this link: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

Jul 5 2021

Version: 3.0.2.0

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Aeschylus

Jul 5 2021

3.0.2.0

Jul 5 2021

Version: 3.0.2.0

Audacity has recently been accused of being spyware. Before using, please read this: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/audacity-spyware-claims-follow-privacy-policy-changes-by-new-owner.2303275/

Jun 24 2021

Version: 3.0.2.0

Audacity is my go-to app for sound editing. It does everything so well. And the help available frok the website is second-to-none. A brilliant free app.

anilmushi

Dec 1 2020

2.4.2.0

Dec 1 2020

Version: 2.4.2.0

Great. My go to for quick audio editing and format conversion.

AnthoLogical

May 18 2020

2.4.0.0

May 18 2020

Version: 2.4.0.0

Wait before installing v2.4.0 !!! audacityteam.org: "We're currently looking into a serious bug with 2.4.0 and have paused release of it." But you can still download it from macupdate.com...

ertidshehu

Mar 27 2020

2.3.3.0

Mar 27 2020

Version: 2.3.3.0

dwchandl

Mar 26 2020

2.3.3.0

Mar 26 2020

Version: 2.3.3.0

I have used Sound Studio for years, but rather than spend $40 to upgrade I decided to check out Audacity. It does everything Sound Studio does with a clean intuitive interface.

Penguirl

Jan 28 2020

2.3.3.0

Jan 28 2020

Version: 2.3.3.0

Haven't been able to DL for a couple days now, Cloud Flare error message. I hope it's not been abandoned.