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Audacity

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Overview

Audacity is an open-source and on-premise audio editing software designed to help musicians manipulate soundtracks using keyboard shortcuts, analyze sound frequencies, and export, edit or import audio files in various formats on a unified platform.

REAPER is an audio editing software that is designed for businesses in several industry fields, including education, non-profit, game development, broadcasting, sound design, and more. Organizations can handle processes related to overdubbing, graphical patchbay emulation, and musical articulations.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

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Pricing

Starting from

Free

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

469

293

130

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

81%

would recommend this app

4.8

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

87%

would recommend this app

Pros

“What I like is it does allow you to pinpoint exactly where you want to edit certain things without having to constantly stop and play to find where you want to edit.”

Carly G.

Curriculum designer and trainer

“The audio editing tools are incredible and produce high quality, professional recordings.”

Anne H.

Senior Learning Designer and Developer

“The amount of tools available for free to help any creator edit quality audio with so much ease of use”

Jeremy H.

Host and Owner

Pros

“The UI was a bit confusing at first, but there was plenty of online material to guide once I started looking.”

Tyler C.

Project Lead

“Recently discovered the remote control feature, which comes in real handy when recording from behind the drum kit.”

Brett C.

Producer

“The quakity of the output is great.”

Gordon S.

Musician

Cons

“There is SOME help documentation, but I found that I rely more on 3rd party tutorials than within the existing help documentation (which is sometimes out of date) or Audacity-focused forums.”

Shaun D.

Producer

“The vocal isolation tools are limited, and there is no included media library.”

Peter R.

Program Director

“It has all the bells and whistles that you see in other programs that cost a lot of money.”

James G.

Associate Pastor

Cons

“Furthermore, there are some very counterintuitive functions, like using right-click to select audio clips (trying to change this in Preferences is a real headache that I could never resolve) that will cause headaches for new users.”