A quick editor for the jobs that come up every day
Most audio edits are small: chop off the false start, lose the cough in the middle, fade the music out at the end, make a quiet recording louder. ClipLime's audio editor is built for exactly that, open a file, drag across the part you care about, press a button. There are no tracks, plugins or project files to manage.
Every edit adds a tiny fade at the join, so cuts never click. Every edit can be undone. And because the audio is decoded and edited on your own device, it stays private and starts instantly, no upload, no waiting.
Selections, cuts and fades
- Select by dragging on the waveform, or type exact start and end times (like
1:05.25). Select all grabs the whole file. - Cut removes the selection and closes the gap. Keep only throws away everything outside it, the quickest way to trim a recording.
- Silence mutes the selection without changing the length, so anything you've synced to it stays in place.
- Fade in and Fade out use an equal-power curve over the selection. With nothing selected they fade the first or last three seconds.
- Volume raises or lowers the selection (or the whole file) by up to 20 dB, with smooth edges.
Use Play selection and Loop to audition a section before you change it.
Removing pauses
Long gaps between sentences make a recording drag. Remove pauses listens for stretches quieter than the rest of the recording that last longer than the length you choose, and cuts them while keeping a short breathing space so speech still sounds natural. One second is a good starting point for voice notes and interviews; go shorter for a punchier feel.
Working on a video instead? The silence remover does the same for video files and shows every cut on a timeline before export.
Loudness normalization, explained
Streaming services and podcast apps measure loudness in LUFS (loudness units relative to full scale), a measure of how loud audio sounds over its whole length rather than how high its peaks go. Hitting the right target means your recording won't sound noticeably quieter than the next one, and won't be turned down by the platform.
- −14 LUFS, a common reference for YouTube, Spotify and other streaming platforms.
- −16 LUFS, a widely used target for podcasts and spoken word, and what Apple Podcasts asks for.
- −19 LUFS, gentler, for quiet voice recordings that shouldn't be pushed hard.
- −23 LUFS, the EBU R128 broadcast standard used by many European broadcasters.
Normalizing applies the gain needed to reach the target, then a limiter keeps true peaks under −1.5 dBTP so the file won't distort when it's converted again by a platform. For a detailed report, loudness range, short-term maximum and a check against several platforms, use the loudness meter.
Choosing an export format
- MP3 plays everywhere. 192 kbps is transparent for most listeners; 128 kbps is fine for speech.
- M4A (AAC) sounds better than MP3 at the same bitrate and is the native format on Apple devices.
- WAV is uncompressed, best for handing to an editor or mastering engineer. Choose 24-bit for the most headroom.
Need a different format later? The audio converter handles batches of files at once.