Tenacity 1.3.5

An easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder.

By Tenacity Team
Open Source
Updated Jul 5, 2026

About Tenacity

Tenacity is a free and open source audio editor forked from the popular audio editor Audacity. Tenacity is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. It contains the following features:
- Recording from audio devices, real or virtual.
- Support for importing from and exporting to a wide range of audio formats, extensible with FFmpeg.
- High quality audio processing, including up to 32-bit float audio support.
- Extensibility with support for plug-ins, providing support for VST 2, LADSPA/LV2, and AU plugins.
- Support for scripting in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl, and other languages with named pipes.
- Editing arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline.
- Accessibility including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support.
- Tools useful in the analysis of signals, including audio.
Tenacity does not have a single application when it comes to audio processing. Musicians recording real instruments can make a song in Tenacity, podcasters can edit their episodes in Tenacity, and even academic researchers can analyze signals using Tenacity. We don’t intend to focus Tenacity on a single area of audio processing, but rather, we intend to focus Tenacity over audio processing in general, including the aforementioned applications.

What's new in 1.3.5

This release was originally unplanned, but after learning about several vulnerabilities being discovered in libexpat, one of Tenacity's core dependencies, we decided to make a new release. However, as time progressed, several other issues came up that needed addressing. This took longer than expected, primarily due to busy schedules and personal issues, but despite that, we present to you a new release bringing fixes to several long-standing issues.
This release is also the first release with an original maintainer. Due to the project's early history, they had to step away for a long while, but since they are doing better, they chose to come back. We'd like to welcome them in coming back and we're both excited to see where Tenacity goes!
New
- ASIO is now natively supported in Tenacity.
- Windows on ARM is now supported. We expect minimal issues, if any, on Windows on ARM, with an exception due to a lack of plugin support (we expect only native ARM plugins to work, but we have not tested this aspect yet).
- Windows 11 or later is required for the Windows on ARM installer. The other installers continue to require Windows 7 (SP1) or later.
- macOS builds have returned.
- Tenacity supports macOS 10.15 or later, both on Intel and Apple Silicon.
- Note that these builds are unsigned and thus require extra steps to get working. Open a Terminal window and run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/Tenacity.app
Changes
- For packagers: wxWidgets 3.3 and later is now supported.
- On Windows, some parts of the UI now better adapt to dark mode if enabled. (However, Tenacity's theme will not automatically adapt to dark mode; you need to wait for 1.4 for that).
- Update about dialog:
- Remove build date. It wasn't necessarily accurate on Linux depending on who packaged Tenacity (e.g., through our official Flatpak).
- Move an original maintainer from emeritus to active.
- Miscellaneous: CPack is now used for building packages across all platforms, including Inno Setup installers.
Fixes
- Fixed several build issues.
- Fixed a spectrogram crash (backported from 1.4 alpha 1).
FFmpeg
Instead of the previous FFmpeg 6.1.2, we now have FFmpeg 7.1.5. Support for FFmpeg 7 was backported in some previous release accidentally, but you can use it to your benefit :)
Unfortunately, we do not provide FFmpeg libraries for Windows on ARM. However, you can download FFmpeg 7.1.5 for Windows on ARM here. Configuration is the same as if you were on x86(_64). …

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Technical details

Publisher	Tenacity Team
Version	1.3.5
Release date	2026-07-05
License	GPL-2.0
Installer type	inno
Architecture	x86, x64, arm64
Package ID	TenacityTeam.Tenacity
Install scope	Current user

Install Tenacity from the command line

Install with Windows Package Manager

winget install --id=TenacityTeam.Tenacity -e

Update to the latest version

winget upgrade --id=TenacityTeam.Tenacity -e

Uninstall

winget uninstall --id=TenacityTeam.Tenacity -e

Silent install with the offline installer

"tenacity-win-1.3.5-x86_64.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /CURRENTUSER

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Tenacity version history

1.3.4 Jan 1, 2025

Happy new year everyone! Sometimes, the best things come to those that wait. While we apologize to have kept you waiting this long, it's certainly paid off, and we want to thank you for waiting for 1.3.4!
This is a minor release that is focused primarily on refinements and a few backported changes from 1.4. The most notable changes of this release include the integration of patches from MacPorts, courtesy of @ryandesign, which improves macOS support, a bunch of bug fixes, and updated credits in the About Dialog. Speaking of improved macOS support, if you want to try Tenacity on macOS, you should try out the MacPorts package as that is currently the best way to use Tenacity on macOS while we figure out how to get CI working again.
Fun fact: this release was supposed to be made a lot sooner, but unfortunately, scheduling conflicts came and went, plus the amount of issues that needed fixing took a little while to investigate and fix with our current resources. We hope that the large number of bug fixes helps improve the overall experience and was worth the wait.
The full changelog for this release is below.
Changelog
- Increased default maximum spectrogram frequency to 20 kHz.
- Tenacity now warns you if you save to a FAT32 drive on FreeBSD.
- Enabled drag-and-drop project importing.
- Fix sync-lock drawing.
- Update about dialog to add new contributors plus Matroska info (#226).
- Updated manual packaging (#406). …

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Frequently asked questions

Is Tenacity free?

Yes. Tenacity is free and open-source software released under the GPL-2.0 license.

What is the latest version of Tenacity?

The latest version is 1.3.5, released on Jul 5, 2026.

Is it safe to download Tenacity?

The download button links to the official installer published on codeberg.org, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with e8c5d9090ca2ffb64789e3df9991cf7e05989c63482d811b9b7d8e1277643c5d.

Which Windows versions does Tenacity support?

Tenacity runs on Windows and is available for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), ARM64 systems.

How do I install Tenacity silently?

Run the offline installer with "tenacity-win-1.3.5-x86_64.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /CURRENTUSER, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=TenacityTeam.Tenacity -e --silent.

How do I uninstall Tenacity?

Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Tenacity and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=TenacityTeam.Tenacity -e.

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