Software · Audio & music
Volume Control
Volume Control is a sound control program, available on Linux.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
At a glance
All of Volume Control 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
PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools, this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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- Last technical check: 5 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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