Free Audio Tools
Metronome, guitar tuner, BPM tap tempo, online piano, audio recorder, tone generator, white noise generator and audio visualizer. Powered by the Web Audio API — no app to install.
Real Audio Processing, Not Just Playback
Browser-based audio tools have a reputation for being toys — a metronome that's really just a looped click, a recorder that can't export anything usable. This category is built to actually hold up against desktop software where it matters: real pitch detection for tuning, genuine time-stretching that changes tempo without the chipmunk-voice effect, and multitrack mixing built on an actual Web Audio signal graph rather than a single flat waveform. Fifteen tools span three groups — practicing an instrument, generating or recording sound, and editing an existing audio file — and every one of them runs locally, which matters for anything recorded through a microphone as much as it does for a file already saved to a device.
Practicing an Instrument
Metronome generates its click through the Web Audio API on a lookahead scheduler rather than a simple JavaScript timer, which keeps timing accurate over long practice sessions instead of gradually drifting the way a naive implementation would. Guitar Tuner listens through the microphone and uses autocorrelation pitch detection to identify a note and its exact deviation in cents, precise enough for real tuning rather than a rough visual guess. BPM Tap Tempo Calculator finds a song's tempo by tapping along to it — useful for matching a DAW project's tempo to a reference track — and Online Piano provides a playable, sampled instrument with recording built in for quick reference or teaching.
Generating and Recording Sound
Tone Generator and Noise Generator both synthesize sound live rather than playing a pre-recorded file — pure sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waves at any frequency for speaker testing and hearing checks, or true white, pink and brown noise for focus, sleep and tinnitus masking. Audio Recorder captures microphone input and exports it directly, and Audio Visualizer renders a real-time frequency spectrum from either a microphone or an uploaded file, useful for actually seeing what a sound looks like, not just hearing it.
Editing an Existing File
The editing tools cover a full workflow: Audio Converter and Audio Trimmer & Cutter handle format switching and cutting a clip down to size, Audio Merger and Audio Mixer both combine multiple files but for different purposes — one joins clips end to end, the other layers them to play at the same time, each with its own gain and pan control. Volume Booster & Normalizer and Silence Remover clean up levels and dead air, and Speed & Pitch Changer does something most free tools can't — changing tempo without shifting pitch, using genuine time-stretching instead of a simple, pitch-warping playback-rate trick.
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