Tenacity audio editor
Ranked 3 of 5 audio editors by recommenders
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.
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.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Alternative to original Audacity
“the spiritual continuation of the original audacity”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Audacity 4.0” “Here's an alternative for those unaware”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Audacity 4.0” Modern features like realtime effects
“bringing features like realtime effects, non-destructive pitch shifting and stretching, beats and bars support”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 on Hacker News “supports Windows dark mode simply because wxWidgets now has support for it”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 on Hacker News
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Questionable development priorities
“Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 on Hacker News
Other audio editors people recommend
The four most recommended other audio editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audacity | 78 | 44 | 64% | 11 | 4 yrs3 owners | — |
| Audiomass | 38 | 4 | 90% | 3 | — | — |
| Tenacity audio editorThis page | 9 | 2 | 82% | 4 | — | — |
| Audionaut | 8 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| Vocal Slice | 6 | 2 | 75% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Here's an alternative for those unaware”
“The Mac build isn't really usable.”
“I like it's there as a choice for us who prefer the old-timey Audacity for some quick sample editing.”
“the spiritual continuation of the original audacity”
“Seem like they have a few commit every week.”
“tenacity is much more mature (9+ years), has a massive community”
“Throw in logging and the tenacity library for retries and you're set.”
“supports Windows dark mode simply because wxWidgets now has support for it”
“Tenacity crashes constantly”
“Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first”
“bringing features like realtime effects, non-destructive pitch shifting and stretching, beats and bars support”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.