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# Audacity Reviews

## Reviews Summary

## Overall Rating

4.5

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## Ratings Breakdown

5

(290)

4

(131)

3

(39)

2

(7)

1

(0)

## Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.3

Customer Support

4.1

Value for money

4.8

Functionality

4.4

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### Pros

"One of the best things about this program is that it's free and gives you a lot of tools to edit audio that you would need ahead of making videos, creating music or making a podcast."

"The latest editions of Audacity have moved to a format with fewer individual files, which makes it easier for managing backups."

"It’s an amazing free tool that allows you to do the basics of audio editing and recording."

### Cons

"My biggest issue is the additional unnecessary updates as well as usage policies that the company has implemented over the years"

"You cannot record audio remotely using it, which means you'll need a separate tool like Riverside or Squadcast for remote recording if you need that functionality."

"While I have no personally experienced, many of my colleagues in the Apple ecosystem have run into periodic trouble with recording reliably."

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