Actually Free → Audio → Audacity + OpenVINO plugins
Actually freeIs Audacity + OpenVINO plugins actually free?
Five AI effects bolted onto the free audio editor, all running locally.
- What you get free
- Unlimited. No account.
- Account required
- No
- Card required
- No
- Commercial use
- Allowed on the free tier
- Watermark
- None
- Works offline
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL open source
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026
The catch
The plugins install separately from Audacity itself — that step trips people up.
Why it made the list
Audio Super Resolution on an old 8kHz recording is the standout, plus Whisper transcription and music separation. Badly underexposed for what it does.
How this was checked
The limits above were read directly from Audacity + OpenVINO plugins's own pricing or documentation pages on 4 Aug 2026 — not taken from a roundup article. That distinction matters more than it sounds: 11 tools were rejected from this site specifically because the widely-repeated free-tier numbers did not survive contact with the vendor's own page.
Free tiers change without announcement, and they usually shrink. If you are reading this well after 4 Aug 2026, open the pricing page yourself before committing to anything.