Audacity Beta releases

There currently is no beta release available. You can download an alpha version instead.

If you'd like to help us with testing, instructions can be found below.

Instructions for testing

Audacity 3 alphas

AU3 Alpha downloads

Audacity 3 alpha versions have received initial testing from Audacity QA and are fairly stable. However, they may still contain bugs and crashes, so avoid using these versions for production work. If you do find anything wrong with these, make sure to report them.

Audacity 4 alphas

AU4 Windows
AU4 macOS
AU4 Linux

Audacity 4 alpha versions are unfinished at this time. This means that some buttons may not do anything yet, or placeholder items be used. Things which work may go back to not working and back again – these builds are extremely unstable.

At present, we don't accept bug reports for these builds, with the exception of the following categories:

  • Crash reports
  • Data loss (eg opening a project in AU4 corrupts it)
  • Recording trouble (if it's a regression on AU3)

You're free to discuss and ask questions about these builds with us on our dev discord though.