Need to grab a 20-second clip from a song, chop the silence off the start of a recording, or turn a track into a ringtone? This audio cutter lets you drag across the waveform to pick exactly the part you want, preview it, and export just that section as MP3 or WAV. Everything happens in your browser, so your file never gets uploaded anywhere.

How to cut your audio

Drop in an audio file and it appears as a waveform. Drag the two purple handles to mark where your clip starts and ends, or click and drag directly across the waveform to draw a fresh selection. The area outside your selection dims so you can see exactly what you’re keeping.

Press Play Selection to hear just the marked portion before you commit. When it sounds right, choose MP3 or WAV and click Trim & Download. Only the part between the handles gets exported.

If you need to nail an exact timestamp rather than eyeball it, type the start and end times straight into the boxes below the waveform. They accept a minutes:seconds format, so 1:30.5 means one minute, thirty and a half seconds in.

Fading the edges in and out

A hard cut in the middle of a waveform often produces an audible click or an abrupt jolt, especially when the audio isn’t at a quiet point. Fades smooth that over.

Turn on Fade In and the clip ramps up from silence to full volume over the duration you pick. Fade Out does the reverse at the end, easing down to silence. Both use the same fade length, adjustable from a tenth of a second up to two seconds. The Play Selection preview applies the fades too, so what you hear is what you’ll download.

Fades are the difference between a clip that ends cleanly and one that stops dead. For ringtones, intro loops, or anything that repeats, a short fade out keeps the transition from feeling jarring.

Picking MP3 or WAV

Export to MP3 when you want a small, universally playable file, a ringtone, a voice clip to share, or a sample to drop into a message. Pick a bitrate that matches the material: 128 kbps is fine for speech, 192 kbps is a safe default for music, and 320 kbps keeps quality loss to a minimum when file size doesn’t matter.

Choose WAV when you’re feeding the clip into editing software, a sampler, or anything that needs uncompressed audio. WAV keeps every sample exactly as decoded, at the cost of a much larger file.

Your file stays on your device

Nothing you load here gets uploaded. Your browser decodes the audio, extracts the selected range, and re-encodes it using code running locally on your machine. That matters when you’re trimming an interview recording, a private voice note, or anything else you’d rather not hand to a server.

Because the work happens on your own processor, a very long source file takes a moment to decode when you first load it, and the final encode runs on your device rather than in the cloud. For a short clip cut from a longer track, both steps are quick.

Need to convert a whole file instead of trimming it? The Audio Converter changes formats without cutting anything. And if you’re looking to create a tone rather than edit an existing file, the Tone Generator produces clean test tones at any frequency.