Wav: Audio Editor & Recorder

MP3 Cutter & Speech to Text

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

New in 1.2: edit speech by editing its text, transcribed on your Mac. And fix the sound of any video; Wav saves it back with the picture untouched. Wav is the audio editor that gets out of your way. Open a WAV, AIFF, MP3, FLAC, AAC or CAF file, or a video, make your edit and press Save. No import, no project files, no learning curve: a fast, lightweight editor that feels right at home on your Mac. NEW: EDIT BY TEXT • Transcribe speech word by word, right on your Mac. Your audio never leaves it • Select words to select their sound. Delete words to cut them, with a smooth crossfade • Remove filler words and shorten long pauses in one step, with a preview on the waveform • Search what was said, add markers at every sentence, export subtitles (SRT, WebVTT) or text • Works in many languages, and offline after a one-time download of the speech model NEW: FIX THE SOUND OF A VIDEO • Open MOV, MP4 and M4V files and edit their sound with every tool in Wav • Save writes the new sound back in seconds. The picture is copied untouched • The picture stays in sync in the inspector, and cuts never shift sound against picture FAST BY DESIGN • A ten-minute stereo recording is drawn in a fraction of a second • Swipe to scroll and pinch to zoom, right down to single samples • Press Space to play, loop any selection and let the view follow the playhead EVERY ESSENTIAL EDIT • Cut, copy, paste, delete and trim • Fade, silence, reverse, invert phase, gain and normalize • Mono to stereo and stereo to mono in one step • Paste between files: sample rate and format are converted for you • Edit the left or right channel on its own • Every edit can be undone MARKERS, REGIONS AND VOLUME CURVES • Drop markers as you listen and turn selections into named regions • Split long recordings into takes by detecting the silence between them • Export every region as its own file in one step • Draw volume curves right on the waveform, per channel or linked RECORD, EFFECTS AND METERING • Record from any input straight into the open file • Chain the Audio Unit plug-ins on your Mac and apply them to a selection or the whole file • Stereo meter with peak, RMS, peak hold and clip indicators SAVE AND EXPORT, YOUR WAY • Your file only changes when you save. Nothing is written behind your back • Save keeps the original format, bit depth and bitrate • Export to WAV, AIFF, MP3, FLAC, AAC, CAF or raw PCM with the bit depth, sample rate, bitrate and dither you choose • Up to 192 kHz and 64-bit float, with RF64 for WAV files over 4 GB • Crash recovery keeps unsaved edits safe MADE FOR THE MAC • Tone Color tints the waveform by pitch, so you can tell low from high at a glance • Keyboard shortcuts for every common edit • Light and Dark Mode PERFECT FOR Podcasters, video creators, musicians, sound designers, voice-over artists, teachers and anyone who needs to trim a recording without opening a full studio. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Wav is free to download. Opening, editing, transcribing, recording, playback and effects are free to use, so you can try everything first. Saving, Save As, Export (including transcripts and subtitles) and copying audio into other apps require the one-time in-app purchase "Wav! Unlock". No subscription, no account, no ads. Purchases can be restored on all your Macs. Requires macOS 26 or later.

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Wav 1.2 lets you edit speech as text and fix the sound of your videos. EDIT BY TEXT • Transcribe speech right on your Mac, word by word. Your audio never leaves your Mac. • Select words to select their audio. Delete words to cut them, with a smooth crossfade. • Double-click a word to play from it, and watch each word light up as it plays. • Remove filler words and shorten long pauses in one step, with a preview on the waveform. • Search what was said, add markers or regions at every sentence, and export subtitles (SRT, WebVTT) or plain text. • Works in many languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The first time you use a language, macOS downloads its speech model once; after that, transcribing works offline. FIX THE SOUND OF A VIDEO • Open MOV, MP4 and M4V files and edit their sound with all of Wav's tools and your Audio Units. • Save writes the sound back into the video in seconds. The picture is copied untouched, with its rotation, location and recording date. • The picture appears in the inspector and stays in sync with the sound. • In a video, cuts leave silence instead of removing time, so picture and sound never drift apart. • Give a silent video a soundtrack, or drop a video onto an audio file to use its sound. IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES • Revert To Saved now brings back the saved file. • When a file can't be saved, Wav now tells you why and what to do instead. Saving and exporting, including transcripts and subtitles, are part of the one-time "Wav! Unlock" purchase.

Version 1.2

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    Seller
    Waldemar Schneider
    Size
    4.6 MB
    Category
    Music
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © Waldemar Schneider
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