Software · Audio & music

Sound Recorder

A simple, modern sound recorder for GNOME.

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, Wikidata
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 GNOME Project
Latest version: 42.0 (19 March 2022)
Latest activity: 10 April 2026
Source code: gitlab.gnome.org/World/vocalis

Overview

Sound Recorder is an audio recorder, available on Linux.

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

“A simple, modern sound recorder for GNOME” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Sound Recorder 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

Sound Recorder provides a simple and modern interface that provides a straight-forward way to record and play audio. It allows you to do basic editing, and create voice memos. Sound Recorder automatically handles the saving process so that you do not need to worry about accidentally discarding the previous recording. Supported audio formats: Ogg Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, MP3 and MOV

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 7 November 2026
Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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