Best Audio Editing Software

Mureka AI is an AI-powered music creation platform built for creators who want to generate original songs, background tracks, vocals, and speech quickly without traditional studio workflows. Users can turn a simple prompt, lyric idea, or reference track into polished, royalty-free music in minutes. It is useful for content creators, marketers, podcasters, indie musicians, game developers, and social media teams that need fast, customizable audio for videos, ads, games, and streaming content. The platform combines text-to-music generation, vocal options, lyric support, remixing, and advanced editing tools in one web-based workflow. It also stands out for its multilingual interface, model choices, commercial-use focus, and export options such as MP3, WAV, stems, and video. Read Mureka AI Reviews

Acoustica, developed by the Norwegian company Acon Digital, is a professional audio editor for Windows and macOS that combines waveform and multitrack editing with spectral repair, restoration, and mastering tools. Its Spectral Editor lets users visually isolate and remove unwanted noise, while the AI powered Remix tool separates a mix into vocal, piano, bass, drum, and other stems in real time.

Acoustica is sold as a one time purchase in Standard, Premium, and Post Production Suite editions, with Premium adding Dolby Atmos 7.1.2 support and an AI dialogue cleaning suite that tackles wind, rustle, buzz, plosives, and clicks. The software supports VST, VST3, and Audio Unit plugins plus ARA2 integration for use inside DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and Reaper.

TwistedWave is an audio editor built by a single developer, offering desktop apps for Mac and Windows, a browser based online editor, and iOS apps for iPhone and iPad. It supports recording, editing, mastering, and batch processing of audio up to 32 bit and 192 kHz, reads and writes dozens of formats, and can host VST and Audio Unit plugins for EQ, compression, and limiting.

Standout features include speech recognition that syncs a script to the waveform for fast selection, video synchronization for editing audio against picture, and ZTX time stretching and pitch shifting. The free online editor handles short mono files, while paid yearly or monthly plans unlock longer files, desktop apps, and optional speech recognition and video sync add-ons.

iZotope RX is professional audio repair and restoration software used by sound engineers, podcasters, and post production teams to remove noise, clicks, hum, and other unwanted artifacts from recordings. Its visual Spectrogram lets editors target problem sounds directly, while machine learning powered tools such as Repair Assistant, Music Rebalance, and Dialogue Isolate automate common cleanup tasks. RX is available as a standalone editor and as real time plugins for use inside a DAW or video editor.

The product ships in tiered editions, from RX Elements for basic repair to RX Advanced for a full 50 plus module toolkit, plus a bundled RX Post Production Suite. RX has won two Engineering Emmy Awards and is considered an industry standard for film, TV, music, and game audio. It runs on Windows and macOS. As of mid 2026, iZotope is owned by Boris FX after previously being part of the Native Instruments group.

Adobe Podcast is a browser-based tool from Adobe for recording, transcribing, editing, and cleaning up spoken-word audio. Its best-known feature, Enhance Speech, is a free AI tool that removes background noise, echo, and reverb from a recording to make it sound closer to studio quality. The suite also includes Mic Check for pre-recording microphone diagnostics and Studio, an invite-only browser tool that records multitrack 48kHz/16-bit WAV audio with automatic AI transcription for transcript-based editing.

The free plan allows about one hour of Enhance Speech processing per day with 30-minute files, while the $9.99 per month (or $99.99 per year) Premium plan raises those limits, adds video file support, bulk uploads, and an enhancement strength slider. Premium is also included with an active Creative Cloud or Adobe Express Premium subscription. It targets podcasters, YouTubers, and journalists who need quick audio cleanup without installing software.

Ocenaudio is a free audio editor that originated from a speech-processing research group at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, later rewritten and released publicly starting in 2009. It is built to be simple and fast, with a real-time effects preview so users hear processed audio while adjusting settings, a full spectrogram view, multi-selection editing, and support for VST plugins. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Unlike many audio tools, ocenaudio has no paid tiers, subscriptions, or premium features; all users get identical functionality regardless of platform. It suits podcasters, students, musicians, and hobbyists who want a lightweight, no-cost alternative to more complex audio editors, with the option to support development through donations.

Cubase is a digital audio workstation made by Steinberg, a Yamaha-owned company based in Hamburg, Germany. It is sold in three editions: Elements for beginners, Artist for most producers, and Pro for professionals who need the full toolset, including VariAudio pitch editing, Control Room monitoring, native Dolby Atmos music production, and advanced scoring and notation. Cubase runs on Windows and macOS and supports VST, VST3, and VST instrument plugins.

Steinberg offers a free 30 to 60 day trial with full functionality before purchase, and buyers who start with a lower edition can upgrade later by paying only the price difference. Cubase is aimed at composers, producers, mixing engineers, and post-production and game audio studios that need a deep, established feature set backed by decades of development.

Hindenburg is made by Hindenburg Systems, a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that builds spoken-word audio editing tools for journalists, podcasters, and radio producers. Its flagship product, Hindenburg PRO, automatically levels dialogue to broadcast-standard loudness (LUFS) as clips are placed on the timeline and includes a Voice Profiler that applies EQ and compression tuned to each speaker. It also offers on-device transcription that lets editors cut audio by editing text.

Hindenburg is sold through monthly or annual subscription tiers that differ mainly in included transcription hours and access to the Soundly sound effects library, with a one-time perpetual license also available for users who prefer not to subscribe. A 30-day trial is offered with no credit card required. It targets podcast producers, radio journalists, and audiobook narrators who need fast, consistent spoken-word editing.

Studio One was PreSonus's flagship digital audio workstation, known for its single-window drag-and-drop workflow, Chord Track, Scratch Pads for arrangement experimentation, and native ARA2 integration with Melodyne. As of January 13, 2026, Fender (which acquired PreSonus in 2021) rebranded the software as Fender Studio Pro, adding native Fender amp and effects plugins alongside the existing toolset. The PreSonus brand continues for hardware like Eris monitors and StudioLive mixers, but the DAW itself now carries the Fender name.

Pricing carried over from Studio One Pro 7: a one-time perpetual license, or subscription plans that bundle the license with ongoing feature updates. It targets musicians, producers, and songwriters, especially guitarists given the new Fender plugin integration. Because the transition is recent, some product pages and listings still reference the Studio One name.

GarageBand is Apple's free digital audio workstation for Mac, iPhone and iPad, designed for musicians, podcasters and beginners who want an approachable way to record and produce music. Developed by Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, California, it comes preinstalled or free to download on Apple devices and requires no purchase or subscription.

The app includes a large sound library with session drummers and percussionists, guitar and bass amp simulations, and support for up to 255 audio tracks. It offers multi-take recording, Flex Time for timing adjustments, Smart Controls for shaping instrument sounds, and built-in lessons for piano and guitar. iCloud syncing lets users move projects seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices.