A voice recorded next to loud background noise. Press play, then switch toWith Remove noise while it plays.
Record anywhere and sound like you were in a studio. Gleam Audio takes out
fans, hum, traffic and room noise, and keeps your voice clear and natural. Then
it levels, trims and converts the result in the same window, and it never
touches your original files.
Fans, hum, traffic, a buzzing fridge: gone. A deep learning model trained on
human speech keeps your voice and drops everything else. Dial the strength back
when you want to keep a touch of the room.
Even out loudness for podcasts and audiobooks
Pick where your audio is going, a podcast, an audiobook, music streaming or
broadcast, and Gleam Audio evens out the volume to the level that place
expects. It clears away the low rumble mics pick up from desks and traffic too.
Each file in the list shows how loud it is now, so you can see how far it has
to go.
Record from a mic or an audio interface
Pick your mic and press Record, with a level meter to keep you out of the red.
With an audio interface, each mic can go to its own file. Takes land in the
list, ready to clean up.
Shorten long pauses in speech
Remove silence finds the long pauses and shortens them to the length you pick.
What counts as quiet comes from each recording’s own background noise.
Trim recordings on a picture of the sound
See your recording as a picture of the sound, so silences, coughs and
mistakes are easy to spot. Drag two handles and keep only what’s between them.
Split long recordings into chapters and clips
Turn a long session into episodes, chapters or clips. Mark where each part
starts, or split evenly into as many parts as you need, then play any part to
check it before you save.
Join clips into one file
Put an intro, an interview and an outro together in one file. Set the order
with the arrows and add a short gap between clips if you like.
Change the speed and keep the pitch
Speed up a lecture or slow down a fast talker, anywhere from half speed to
double. Voices keep their pitch.
Convert audio to any format
Save as mp3, wav, m4a, flac, ogg or opus, at the quality you choose, ready for
any platform or editor.
Video files work too. Drop in an mp4 or a mov and every tool saves just the
sound.
Batch process a whole session at once
Drop in every file from a recording day, or a whole podcast season, and clean
them all in one run. Every tool but Record, Cut and Split works on the full
list.
Results are saved next to your originals or in a folder you pick, with names
you choose, like interview-clean.wav.
Most tools price out independent creators with crazy monthly fees. Getting
powerful audio cleaning, noise sliders, and split/cut tools that run 100%
privately on my own computer is a massive win.
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Saving around four times what I used to pay for Hush. Handling my weekly
batch of episodes locally on my Mac offline is a huge upgrade.
Hard things made easy. Old-style noise reduction makes you sample the
noise and tune settings by ear. Gleam Audio’s AI is trained on human speech,
so it tells voice from noise on its own and cleans it in one pass.
No booth or pro suite needed. Clean recordings used to need a treated
room, or repair software with dozens of tools to learn. Here, one click takes
the background noise out of a home recording.
Your audio stays yours. Most AI cleanup tools need you to upload your
recordings first. Gleam Audio does all the work on your computer, so
unreleased episodes and client work stay private.
Works with no internet. Cloud tools wait on uploads and stall when the
connection drops. Gleam Audio runs fully offline.
Batch without the upgrade. Many tools clean one file at a time, or keep
batch jobs for paid plans. Gleam Audio cleans a whole list in one run, even
on the free plan.
Pay once, not by the hour. Cloud services often charge for hours of
audio or a monthly plan. Gleam Audio is free for personal use, and a license
for work is one payment, at a price you choose.
Never ruins a file. Some editors save over the file you opened. Every
result here is a new file, and your originals stay exactly as they were.
Works on any computer. The same app on Mac, Windows and Linux, with
everything it needs inside.
Is it really free?
Yes. Every feature is free for personal use, up to 20 files a week. You only
need a license for paid work.
What counts as commercial use?
Anything you’re paid for or that earns money: client projects, a sponsored or
monetised podcast or channel, or audio for a product. Your own recordings and
hobby projects are personal use.
Do I need an internet connection?
No. Gleam Audio works fully offline. It goes online only to check for
updates and your license.
Is my audio uploaded anywhere?
Never. All the work happens on your computer.
How is it different from Audacity, Adobe Podcast or Auphonic?
Audacity is a full multitrack editor, where noise reduction starts with a
sample of the noise. Adobe Podcast and Auphonic clean speech in the cloud, so
you upload first. Gleam Audio cleans speech with AI on your own computer, a
whole batch at a time, and more editing tools are coming in future updates.
Compare it with Audacity,
Adobe Podcast,
Auphonic,
Descript,
iZotope RX and
Hush.
Which files does it work with?
All the common ones, including wav, mp3, m4a, flac, ogg and opus, and it can
save to any of them.
Will it run on my computer?
It runs on macOS, on Apple silicon and Intel, on Windows and on Linux.
Can I move my license to a new computer?
Yes. Remove it from the old computer in the app, then activate it on the new
one. How licenses work
Gleam Audio 2.1 lets you hear a recording before and after with one switch.
It also makes long batches and everyday use a little easier.
New
Before and After. After Remove noise, Enhance or Convert, switch between
the original and the result. It keeps playing from the same moment, so you
hear what changed.
Progress on the app icon. Start a batch and get on with other work. The
icon in the Dock or taskbar fills up as files finish, and bounces when the
run is done.
Keyboard shortcuts. ⌘O adds files, ⌘↩ runs, Esc stops, and ⌘1 to ⌘9
pick a tool. On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl.
Your last tool. The app opens on the tool you used last, with your
settings.
Send feedback. Help › Send feedback opens an email to us, with your
version filled in.
Usage stats you control. New installs send anonymous stats, like which
tools get used. Never your audio or file names. If you already use Gleam
Audio, they stay off unless you turn them on under Help › Privacy.
To update, open Gleam Audio and click Check for updates in the sidebar.
Every change is in the
2.1.0 release notes.
Gleam Audio 1.0 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux. It is free for
personal use, and a license, at a price you pick, adds commercial use.
Personal and commercial use has the details.
New
Choose where results go and how they are named, at the bottom of the window.
Splitting is easier. The picture shows each part, Split here sits on the
playhead, and you can play one part, join two, or split evenly.
Pick a macOS or GNOME look, light, dim or dark colours, and an accent.
A Help menu links to these docs, and the app has a new icon.
Fixed
Windows now finds ffmpeg once it is installed.
The title bar follows the colours you pick.
Downloads and updates come from a faster, public server.
The first beta is out for macOS, Windows and Linux. Drop in your recordings,
pick a tool, and get clean files back. Nothing is uploaded: every step runs on
your own computer. Getting started is the short tour.
In the box
Remove noise, for fans, hum, traffic and room noise under speech.
Enhance, which evens out loudness for podcasts, music, audiobooks or
broadcast, and drops low rumble.
Cut and Split, with a picture of the sound to find the right spot.
Convert between mp3, wav, m4a, flac, ogg and opus.
Whole batches at once for every tool but Cut and Split.