SoundCatchinternal audio recorder and audio editor

Record the sound of an app, on PC or on Android

Choose the app whose sound you want, or all the sound of the device, start recording, then play your track or your video. SoundCatch records only the sound played by apps: never the microphone, so neither your voice nor the noise in the room. The sound is kept in studio quality and encoded only once, at export.

On Windows PCs

• The sound of a single app (a browser, a player, music software, a game) on Windows 11, or all the PC's sound; on Windows 10, all the PC's sound.
• No virtual driver or cable to install.
• The PC's volume does not change the recorded level.

On Android

• The sound of an app, or all the phone's sound, at its original sample rate (usually 48 kHz), in 32-bit float.
• If nothing arrives after 3 seconds, the app tells you and explains why.

Android asks for your consent at each recording. Keep the screen on: Android stops the recording when the phone locks. Some apps forbid recording their sound; Android then passes on only silence.

Cut an audio file with no click at the joins

Editing is done on the waveform, with the mouse on PC and with your finger on Android: select a passage, listen to it, delete it.

• Several passages at once.
• A 20 ms crossfade at every join: the cut cannot be heard.
• A full history: undo, redo, or go back to any step.
• Suspect passages are pointed out to you: speech in the middle of music, gaps, sudden changes of loudness or timbre. You listen and you decide: nothing is cut without you.
• Silence at the start and end can be removed at export.

Extract the sound from a video

Open any audio or video file: SoundCatch keeps its sound. You then cut it like a recording and export it. Handy for preparing the soundtrack of a personal photo or video montage.

Export to MP3, AAC or FLAC

• On Windows PCs: AAC (.m4a), MP3 320 kbit/s, Apple Lossless or FLAC.
• On Android: AAC (.m4a) at 256 kbit/s, which plays almost everywhere, or lossless FLAC. MP3 is not offered there: the system has no MP3 encoder.
• The file size is shown before export, for each format.
• You choose where the file is saved.

Windows, Android, Mac and iPhone: what each version does

The core is the same everywhere: record, cut with no click, spot suspect passages, export a clean file. Each version follows what its system allows.

On Windows PCs · available

• The sound of an app (Windows 11) or all the PC's sound; no microphone.
• Editing with the mouse.
• Export to AAC (.m4a), MP3 320 kbit/s, Apple Lossless or FLAC.
• Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11.

On Android · available

• The sound of an app, or all the phone's sound; no microphone.
• Audio and video files on the phone.
• Export to AAC (.m4a) or FLAC.
• Android 10 or later.

On Mac · in preparation

• The sound of an app chosen from a list, or all the Mac's sound, with no audio driver to install; no microphone.
• Export to AAC (.m4a), MP3 320 kbit/s, Apple Lossless or FLAC.
• Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 14.4 or later.

On iPhone · in preparation

• The sound of other apps, through iOS broadcasting; the microphone, for what is playing around you; videos from Photos.
• Export to AAC (.m4a), Apple Lossless or FLAC.
• iOS 17 or later.

Your recordings stay on your device

• No account, no sign-up.
• No ads, no audience measurement tool, no data collected.
• The sound you record and the files you export are not sent to any server of the publisher.

The details are in the privacy policy.

Record only for your personal use, and respect the rights of the works and the terms of the services you listen to.