Remove audio from video
Strip the sound track out of a video without re-encoding it, on your own device.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Works offline after first visit
- Open source
- No watermark · limit is your device’s memory; phones hold less
Remove the audio from a video in your browser in seconds. The picture is copied untouched and keeps its format. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.
Done
Open the network tab. Your files never appear in it.
Add files and run the tool to see every request this tab makes.
Your files are processed on this device and never sent to a server. Reload the page to clear everything from memory.
Background chatter, wind noise, music you do not have the rights to, or a conversation you would rather not share: there are plenty of reasons to post a video without its sound. Drop the file here and press Remove sound.
Nothing is re-encoded. The video track is copied packet by packet into a new file of the same type and the sound track is simply left out, so the picture is exactly the same as before and a long 4K clip is done in about the time it takes to read it.
All of this happens in your browser. The video is not uploaded to a converter site, there is no watermark, and you can drop a whole batch at once.
A silent copy is what you want for a looping background video on a web page, a clip in a slide deck that should not start talking over you, or dashcam and doorbell footage you are sending to an insurer without the conversation that was going on at the time. The saved file keeps its original type, with -muted added to the name, so holiday.mov becomes holiday-muted.mov and opens in the same apps as before.
Removing the sound also makes the file a little smaller, but not by much. Sound is a small part of most videos, often 128 to 256 kilobits a second against several megabits for the picture, so expect a few percent off rather than half. If you need a much smaller file, Compress video has its own Remove the sound box and shrinks the picture in the same pass.
How it works
- Drop one or more videos, or tap to pick them.
- Press Remove sound.
- Save the silent videos; several come as a zip.
In your browser, not on a server
Mediabunny (MPL-2.0), a media toolkit written in TypeScript, reads the MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV container in your tab and copies every video packet into a new file of the same type, leaving the sound track out. Nothing is decoded or re-encoded, so the picture is bit-for-bit the same and the job takes about as long as reading the file.
Compared with upload-based tools: Online tools that remove audio upload the whole video to do it, cap free files at a few hundred megabytes, and often re-encode the picture or add a watermark. Here nothing is uploaded, the picture is untouched, and a 2 GB file is done in seconds.
Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.
Questions
Can I keep the sound as a separate file?
Yes, with Video to MP3, which saves just the sound track as an MP3 or WAV.
Does Instagram or TikTok accept a video with no sound track?
Yes. A video with no sound track uploads and plays like any other; the app simply shows it as having no audio.
What happens to a video with several audio tracks?
They are all left out. Only the main video track is copied into the new file, so an MKV with several languages, or a game recording with separate game and microphone tracks, comes out with no sound at all. Subtitle tracks are not carried over either. The picture itself is copied exactly.
Does it work with videos from my phone?
Yes. iPhone MOV files, HEVC ones included, and Android MP4s both work, because the picture is copied rather than decoded: the browser never needs to be able to play the video to remove its sound. On a phone, tap the drop zone and choose the video from your photo library, then save the silent copy.
Is the file uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no server in this process. The page is a static file and the work is done by code running inside your browser tab. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use; then you can turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.
More video and audio tools
Mute video
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Merge audio
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Mic test
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Webcam test
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Other conversions
Guides
- How to remove audio from a videoThe mute button on your phone only silences playback. Removing the audio for good needs an actual edit. Here is how, on each platform.
- How to blur a face in a videoBlurring a face in one photo is easy. In a video the face moves, so the cover has to follow it. Here are the options, and a way that never uploads the clip.