Software · Audio & music

Puddletag

A powerful ID3 tag editor.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: GPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms), Flathub
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub
Publisher: Puddletag Authors
Latest version: 2.5.0 (27 July 2025)
Latest activity: 17 October 2026
Source code: github.com/puddletag/puddletag

Overview

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A and MP4.

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

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) 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

Puddletag is an audio tag editor. Unlike most taggers for GNU/Linux, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. The usual tag editor features are supported like extracting tag information from filenames, renaming files based on their tags by using patterns and basic tag editing. The usual tag editor features are supported: Extracting tag information from filenames Renaming files based on their tags by using patterns Basic and batch tag editing Automate repetitive tasks Web lookups using Amazon (including cover art), Discogs (does cover art too!), FreeDB and MusicBrainz **Note: By default this Flatpak only has access to the Music and Downloads folders. If you want to edit files in other locations, make sure to add the permission (e.g. `filesystem=host`) in your Flatpak settings **

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Sources and checks

Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 7 November 2026
Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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