ocenaudio: A Light Audio Editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

ocenaudio is a compact audio editor that aims to be easy to learn and quick to use, even with large files. It is a handy companion when you want to trim a recording, clean up a voice track or apply an effect without learning a full music studio.

Why people like it

• Real-time effect preview: Hear many effects before you apply them.
• Multi-selection: Select several parts of a file and edit them together.
• Spectrogram view: Inspect a recording’s frequency content visually.
• Light on resources: It opens large audio files quickly on modest computers.

Installers on the official page

• Windows: A 64-bit installer and a portable ZIP, for Windows 10 or later.
• macOS: A build for macOS 14.4 or later on Intel and Apple Silicon, plus a legacy build for macOS 10.14 and later.
• Linux: An AppImage and packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Rocky Linux, openSUSE and Arch.

The site notes that version 3.14 and later dropped the 32-bit build and several older platforms; the last build for those is 3.13.8.

Choosing between audio editors

ocenaudio sits between a very simple recorder and a full workstation. If you need multitrack editing or plugin hosting, Audacity takes a more configurable approach, and Tenacity is a related community fork.

The license is not stated on the download page, so read the terms on the website or in the installer.