Mute a Video Online - Remove Audio Free
Strip the audio track from any video in one click.
- Free to start
- Nothing to install
- Up to 1GB
Mute Video in 3 steps
Upload your video
Drag and drop a video file, or click to browse.
Confirm mute
The audio track is removed completely - picture quality is untouched.
Download
Sign up free to download the silent video.
Muting, removing and replacing are three different jobs
Muting a video in a player turns your speakers down. Muting a video file removes the audio from the file itself, so it is silent everywhere, for everybody, including on a platform that autoplays with sound. That is what this does, and it is the one that survives being uploaded somewhere else.
It also makes the file smaller, which is occasionally the real reason people arrive here. Audio is usually a small share of a video file, so expect a few percent rather than a transformation; if size is the goal, compressing the video is the lever that moves.
If the plan is to silence the original and put something else over it, muting first and adding music second gives a cleaner result than layering, because there is no original audio left underneath to duck against or leak through.
Muting to avoid a music claim
The most common reason to strip the sound is a song in the background. Copyright matching on platforms like YouTube compares the audio of an upload against a library of reference tracks, so a file with no audio track has nothing for that comparison to find.
It is not a blanket pass. Matching can also run on the picture, so footage that is itself somebody else's video can still be claimed with the sound removed. And if the video is already on YouTube, its Studio has an Erase song option that removes only the matched music and keeps your voice, which is the better fix when the speech matters.
When the voice does matter and the music is underneath it, removing the whole track takes the speech too. Replace it instead: mute here, then record or add the voiceover and a licensed track in the editor.
Questions about mute video
Does muting affect video quality?
No. Only the audio track is removed; the picture is re-encoded at high quality.
Can I replace the audio instead of just removing it?
Yes - use the Add Music to Video tool to lay a new soundtrack over your footage.
Why mute a video?
Removing background noise, music-rights issues before posting, or preparing footage for a voiceover are the most common reasons.
Is it free?
Yes. Mute and preview free, and a free account downloads the result. Free exports and share pages include a small REQO badge. Go Pro to remove it.
Keep exploring
Everything else you can do here.
Crop for a platform
Crop to a ratio
Resize to a resolution
Compress for a destination
Compress a format
Rotate or flip
Change the frame rate
Change the speed
Transcribe a language
Merge with a transition
Extract audio from a format
Subtitles in another language
Convert a caption file
Convert to MP4
Convert to WebM
Convert to AVI
Convert to WMV
Convert to 3GP
Convert to M4V
Convert to MPEG
Convert to GIF
Convert to MP3
Convert to WAV
Every converter
Other languages
Need to do more than mute video?
REQO is a full browser video editor: record, edit by transcript, and export.