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Best Audio Editing Apps for iPhone (2026)
SoundLab - Audio Editor is the top-ranked of 17 audio editing apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 14,565 ratings.
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Free download · ★ 4.6 · 14,565 ratings · score 94 - 2
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 7,747 ratings · score 93 - 3
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 30,531 ratings · score 92 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 11,482 ratings · score 90 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,301 ratings · score 90
What belongs in this list
Edit audio files on the phone by cutting, joining, mixing and layering sounds.
Not here: A voice recorder alone; Audio format conversion alone; A video editor alone; An equalizer alone; Playing audio alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
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Free download · ★ 4.6 · 14,565 ratings · score 94 · best in class - 2
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 7,747 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 3
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 30,531 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 11,482 ratings · score 90 · best in class - 5
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,301 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 6
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 13,324 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,759 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 12,128 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,883 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 15,680 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 2,185 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 29,068 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 6,913 ratings · score 81 · excellent - 14
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,662 ratings · score 80 · good - 15
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,451 ratings · score 71 · good - 16
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 7,436 ratings · score 56 · weak - 17
Free · ★ 4.5 · 19,721 ratings · score 41 · avoid · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- Audio editor | AudioLab: Mixer (A)
- Recorder Plus - Audio Editor (A)
- Audio Editor : Audiolab (A)
- Mp3 Cutter - M4a, Music Cutter (B)
- WavePad Music and Audio Editor (B)
Questions people ask
- What is the best audio editing app for iPhone?
- SoundLab - Audio Editor, S tier, ranked #1 of 17, rated 4.6 by 14,565 people.
- Which audio editing apps are free?
- 17 of 17 are free to download: SoundLab - Audio Editor (S), EZAudioCut - Audio Editor Lite (S), Audio Editor - Music editor (S), Audio Editor - Music Mixer (S) and more. 5 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
- Which audio editing app has the best App Store rating?
- EZAudioCut - Audio Editor Lite at 4.9 from 7,747 ratings.
- How many audio editing apps reach S or A tier?
- 13 of 17. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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