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Can I run Audacity?
Audacity by Audacity: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
- OS
- Windows: tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11 (x86_64 and ARM64 builds; ARM64 needs Windows 11); Mac: tested on macOS 14 and 15, may work on macOS 10.11 El Capitan onward (Intel, Apple silicon and universal builds)
Recommended requirements
Not yet verified.
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Where these requirements come from
- Audacity — Download Audacity for Windows (system requirements) · retrieved 10/7/2026
- minimum: Audacity has no specific CPU or GPU requirements and should run on any notebook or PC that can run the listed operating systems.
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