Alternatives to Fission
A Mac audio editor for trimming, joining and splitting files without quality loss, plus batch conversion. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Fission
A Mac audio editor for trimming, joining and splitting files without quality loss, plus batch conversion.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Fission.
Amadeus Pro
Paid multitrack audio editor and sound recorder for macOS with batch processing.
Amadeus Pro is a paid Mac editor that adds multitrack editing with non-destructive Audio Units effects and batch conversion with chained effects.
ocenaudio
A free, cross-platform audio editor built for fast, straightforward editing of audio files.
ocenaudio is a free, closed-source editor for Windows, macOS and Linux aimed at quick edits, though it does not advertise Fission's lossless MP3 and AAC trimming.
Audacity
A multi-track audio editor and recorder that has been the free default for twenty-five years.
Audacity is free and open source under GPLv3 on Windows, macOS and Linux, adding multitrack recording and many effects, but it edits destructively rather than cutting losslessly.
Tenacity
A fork of Audacity created after the 2021 telemetry row, built to record and edit audio with nothing phoning home.
Tenacity is a free, telemetry-free Audacity fork for Windows, macOS and Linux with plugin support and FFmpeg import and export, though releases are infrequent and macOS builds sometimes lag.
Adobe Audition
A professional audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing and restoring audio for video and podcasts.
Adobe Audition adds multitrack, spectral editing and restoration tools on Windows and macOS, but it requires a Creative Cloud subscription and an Adobe account instead of a one-off purchase.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
XLD
A Mac tool for ripping CDs and decoding, converting and splitting lossless audio files.
Permute
A drag-and-drop macOS converter for video, audio, images and PDFs across about 50 formats.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
Piezo
A simple Mac app for recording audio from any application or from a microphone.
Audio Hijack
Capture and process audio from Mac applications and input devices.
fre:ac
A free audio converter and CD ripper that converts between MP3, AAC, FLAC, Opus and more.
