Extract Audio

How to extract audio from a video — 3 steps

Extract audio from any video — right in your browser

Need the audio from a video without the video? This tool extracts the full soundtrack from an MP4, MOV or WebM file and hands it to you as a standalone audio file — no app, no upload, right in your browser.

The video stays untouched on your device: extraction reads the track out of it, and the video file itself never reaches a server — up to 200MB converts right in your browser.

Extract Audio vs MP4 to MP3 — same engine, two presets

This page is the MP4 to MP3 engine with the format menu open: same browser-side extraction, but MP3, M4A and WAV are all up front instead of MP3-first. Pick whichever page matches the job.

Output formats — MP3, M4A or WAV

MP3 for universal sharing, M4A for iPhone and iPad libraries, WAV for editing — the dropdown stays switchable after you have dropped the video in, so one upload covers every destination.

Why extract audio from a video?

The reasons pile up fast. An interview filmed on a phone becomes a podcast episode. A lecture recording turns into audio you can actually absorb on a commute. A song performance gets stripped to its soundtrack for editing. A field video hands over its ambience for a sound-design project. In every case the picture was only ever the container — to extract audio from video is to take the part you actually wanted out of the box it came in.

It is also the safest way to reuse someone else's upload for study or reference: nothing is re-uploaded anywhere, the extraction happens locally, and the video file itself is never modified.

Extract audio from video without uploading it

Most "extract audio from video" sites mean "upload your video to our server and wait". This one reads the file where it sits: extraction to extract audio from video runs in your browser, files up to 200MB included, and nothing crosses the network. That makes it usable for unreleased material — a client cut, a private event, a demo performance — without asking whose servers it touches first.

From extracted audio to finished track

The extracted file rarely ends its journey there. Cut the good part out with the Audio Cutter, convert it again with the Audio Converter, give it an ending with the audio fader, or compress it for sending. Every one of those tools runs in the same browser with the same no-upload rule, so a video can become a finished, shareable audio track without a single file leaving your device mid-chain.

Every video your devices make — MP4, MOV, WebM

The extractor accepts the three formats modern devices actually produce: MP4 from Android phones, cameras and download sites; MOV from iPhones and Mac screen recordings; WebM from browsers and newer platforms. Screen captures, chat-app forwards, drone clips, lecture recordings — if it plays on your device, to extract audio from video like these you simply drop the file in and pick a format. No codecs to install, no converter chains, no unsupported-file dead ends.

Quality carries over one to one: the audio you get is the audio inside the video, untouched. Extraction is a copy, not a re-render — a crisp soundtrack stays crisp, and a muffled source stays muffled, which is exactly why fixing it afterwards with the fader or compressor is sometimes the next step.

Extract audio from video on your phone

Most extraction requests start on a phone — that is where the videos live. The tool is built for it: the page loads, the file picker opens the camera roll or the downloads folder, and the extraction runs on the device itself. A clip sent by a chat app, a screen recording of a stream, a lecture filmed in the back row — pick it, choose MP3, and the audio file lands in downloads ready to share or save. No app to install, no account to create in a hurry, no waiting on an upload meter over mobile data.

Because the quota is three exports a day without an account and ten with one, a week of casual needs fits without paying anything — and when a clip matters, the HD-grade tools a tap away on the same site take the audio the rest of the way.

What extraction will not do

Straight answers make tools trustworthy. Extraction is a copy, not an enhancement: if the only source of a song is a camera recording from the back of a hall, that room sound rides along — it cannot be stripped out afterwards. It is also not stem separation: a soundtrack with voice and music mixed together comes out as one combined track; splitting voice from music is a different tool entirely. And it cannot invent quality — a 96 kbps audio track inside the video comes out exactly as compressed as it went in.

Free audio extractor — 3 exports a day without an account

• Guests: 3 exports a day — no sign-up, no card
• Free accounts: 10 exports a day
• Up to 200MB in-browser — no upload, no waiting on a server
• Video untouched — only the audio comes out; the file stays on your device

The audio extractor is one of RapKit's 13 zero-cost audio tools — see them all.

More free audio tools

Cut the extracted audio down to the good part with the Audio Cutter cut the soundtrack down to the good part, convert it further with the Audio Converter, or turn it into an iPhone ringtone with the Ringtone Maker.