Alternatives to iZotope RX
An audio repair and restoration suite for removing noise, clicks and other problems from recordings. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
iZotope RX
An audio repair and restoration suite for removing noise, clicks and other problems from recordings.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as iZotope RX.
Steinberg SpectraLayers
Spectral audio editor for noise removal and AI-assisted source separation.
Steinberg SpectraLayers is also a paid Windows and macOS repair tool, built around visual spectral editing and AI source separation for isolating stems or noise, with a steeper learning curve.
Adobe Audition
A professional audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing and restoring audio for video and podcasts.
Adobe Audition combines multitrack, waveform and spectral editing with cleanup and restoration tools, but it is subscription only, requires an Adobe account and fits Adobe video workflows.
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, with built-in effects for cleaning up voice or music, though it is a destructive editor.
Auphonic
A web service that automatically cleans up, levels and loudness-normalizes podcast and other spoken audio.
Auphonic is a freemium web service that automatically levels, denoises and loudness-normalizes spoken audio, but files are processed on a remote server and usage is limited by credits.
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 GPL-2.0 Audacity fork with no telemetry or account, supporting VST, LV2 and AU plugins, but development is slow and the interface is older.
Adobe Podcast
Adobe's browser-based tool for recording, transcribing, editing and cleaning up spoken audio.
Adobe Podcast runs in the browser with AI speech enhancement for voice recordings, needs an internet connection, and focuses on speech rather than music or general restoration.
Also worth comparing
These listings name iZotope RX as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Cleanvoice
A web-based AI podcast editor that removes filler words, background noise, mouth sounds and silences.
iZotope RX is a paid desktop repair suite for Windows and macOS with noise removal and dialogue isolation, so files stay local instead of being uploaded.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Krisp
AI noise cancellation app that strips background noise from calls and voice chat.
Ultimate Vocal Remover
Desktop app that separates vocals and instruments in songs using neural network models on your computer.
NVIDIA Broadcast
Free RTX-exclusive app for AI noise removal, virtual backgrounds, and auto-framing.
Easy Effects
A rack of audio effects for PipeWire on Linux: equaliser, compressor, limiter, noise reduction and thirty more.
Descript
A video and audio editor where you edit recordings by editing their text transcript.
