# Tenacity audio editor

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Tenacity audio editor and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free fork of Audacity that people recommend as an alternative, with realtime effects and frequent commits. Critics say it crashes and the Mac build is rough.

## Why people recommend it

- Alternative to original Audacity (2 comments): "the spiritual continuation of the original audacity" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550350)) "Here's an alternative for those unaware" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552955))
- Modern features like realtime effects (2 comments): "bringing features like realtime effects, non-destructive pitch shifting and stretching, beats and bars support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813169)) "supports Windows dark mode simply because wxWidgets now has support for it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825513))

## What people warn about

- Questionable development priorities (1 comments): "Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814328))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Audacity](https://hackerapproved.com/p/audacity.md): 78 recommend
- [Audionaut](https://hackerapproved.com/p/audionaut.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Tenacity audio editor", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tenacity/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).