Software · Audio & music

Grim Ripper

Create audio files from CDs.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: GPL-2.0 — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms)
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub
Publisher: The Grim Ripper Developers
Latest version: 3.1.2 (19 April 2026)
Latest activity: 19 April 2026
Source code: gitlab.gnome.org/tanuva/GrimRipper

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing: playlists.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, WAV and AAC.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Creates M3U playlists” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Grim Ripper is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Grim Ripper is a graphical audio CD ripper. It fetches CD metadata from online databases and compresses the tracks. Supported codecs: WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's audio files. Features: Uses CDDB to name and tag each track. Creates M3U playlists Can encode to multiple formats in one session Simultaneous rip and encode Does not require a specific desktop environment

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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