---
title: "Audacity"
category: "Audio and video"
tagline: "Record and edit audio: podcasts, voiceovers, interviews and music."
source: "Flathub"
package: "org.audacityteam.Audacity"
replaces: ["Adobe Audition"]
website: "https://www.audacityteam.org/"
code: "https://github.com/audacity/audacity"
---

## What it is

Audacity is an open-source audio editor and recorder. You record from a microphone or open existing audio files, then cut, copy, mix and arrange them on multiple tracks. Built-in effects handle noise reduction, normalizing, compression and equalization, and it exports to formats such as WAV, MP3, FLAC and Ogg.

## Why it's here

- **Clean up recordings.** Remove background noise, trim mistakes and even out levels in a voice recording.
- **Podcasts and voiceovers.** Multitrack editing is enough for interviews and narration.

## On CoreDesktop

CoreDesktop installs Audacity as a Flatpak from Flathub. Open it from the app grid. `update` keeps it current along with your other Flatpaks.