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Kwave

Name: Kwave
Author: KDE

Kwave is an audio editor, available on Linux.

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: KDE
Latest version: 26.08.3 (5 November 2026)
Latest activity: 5 November 2026
Source code: invent.kde.org/multimedia/kwave

At a glance

All of Kwave 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

Kwave is a sound editor that can record to, play, open, and edit many file formats. Kwave makes it simple to edit audio in many ways. Adjust volume level: Fade in, fade out, or custom amplitude curve Scale volume by a constant factor Normalize volume Adjust frequency content: Lowpass filter Bandpass filter Notch filter Pitch shift Other features: Add noise Add silence Convert audio sample rate Go to position Insert audio from clipboard Reverse audio Save audio blocks between labels as separate files Sonagram (spectrogram) Supported file formats: WAV (*.wav) Ogg/Opus (*.opus) Ogg/Vorbis (*.ogg) MP3 (*.mp3) FLAC (*.flac) ASCII coded audio (*.ascii) all file formats supported by libaudiofile (some formats are import only)

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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