This one is trickier than Sound Forge Pro vs Audacity. Both tools cost money. Both run on Windows and Mac (well, Audition does — more on Sound Forge Pro and Mac in a moment). Both do noise reduction, mastering, and waveform editing. At first glance they look like direct competitors for
Every few weeks someone asks me this. Usually it goes: "I want to edit audio, why would I pay for Sound Forge Pro when Audacity is free?" That framing tells me the person hasn't used either tool for anything serious yet — because price is maybe the
Sound Forge Pro just changed owners — again. If you're trying to decide whether to buy it, upgrade from an older version, or just figure out what the Boris FX acquisition actually means for the software, this review covers all of it. Short version: the core tool is unchanged