Audacity vs Auphonic

Audacity is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop computers. It supports multitrack editing, noise reduction, video synchronization, and cloud collaboration. Common audio formats include MP3, M4A, AIFF, FLAC, and WAV, and it handles 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit audio with high-quality resampling and dithering. A Spectrogram view helps visualize and analyze audio clips. Third-party plugins are supported, including VST3, Nyquist, LV2, and Audio Unit formats. Its source code can be viewed or modified under the GNU GPL, and no subscription is required. Audacity has no mobile version for iOS or Android, despite those platforms appearing in some listings. The software is developed by a small remote team supported by the community. Help is available through a manual, forum, and developer Discord.

Auphonic is an automated audio post-production web service for podcasts, broadcasts, radio, interviews, audiobooks, lectures and other audio or video projects. Its algorithms can reduce noise and reverb, adjust levels, filter and enhance recordings, meet loudness specifications, and remove filler words, coughs and silence. Multitrack processing creates mixdowns with automatic ducking, noise gates and mic-bleed removal. Auphonic also provides multilingual speech-to-text, automatic shownotes and chapters, and a shareable transcript editor. It supports common audio and video formats, waveform audiograms, metadata, chapters and burned-in styled subtitles. Integrations include storage, publishing, automation and speech-recognition services; workflows can use the API, CLI, watch folders and batch productions. The free plan is free and includes two hours per month, but free accounts do not include multilingual speech recognition, automatic shownotes and chapters, watch folders or batch productions. Free multitrack productions must be under 20 minutes. Billing has a three-minute minimum per production, and productions are deleted after 21 days for audio and API work or seven days for video.