WavePod
WavePod is the multitrack studio made for talking. Plug in your RØDECaster or USB interface, get a track for every speaker in one click, and go from first word to finished MP3 with chapters. Free, fully open source, on Linux, Windows and macOS.
This is a live demo. Press M or click to drop a chapter marker, hold 1–3 for a cough button, and move over the tracks to scrub.
Works with the gear podcasters actually use
Made for talking, not for music
Records all 16 multitrack channels of a RØDECaster Pro II, and works with RØDECaster Duo, Zoom PodTrak, Focusrite and other class-compliant interfaces. Known devices are recognised and their inputs named for you, so Create 8 speaker tracks is one click.
Crash-safe WAV, one file per track, written on its own thread. If the computer goes down mid-show, the take is recovered when you reopen it.
The kind of clean-up podcast processing services do, right on your own machine: an adaptive leveler evens out loud and quiet speakers, noise reduction takes out fans and hum without a "learn noise" step, and the export lands on −16 LUFS without clipping. One click on Voice chain sets up high-pass, de-esser and leveler for a speaker. And when you want the real thing, Send to Auphonic uploads every track with its chapters and cover as a multitrack production.
Split, trim, fade, ripple cut across all tracks, crossfades, volume lines, cough buttons and tape-style scrubbing.
EQ, gate, compressor, de-esser, limiter, noise reduction and Dynamics, with speech presets. Your VST3 plug-ins run in the same stack, safely in their own process.
EBU R128 analysis and normalisation to −16 LUFS or your own target, without the true peak going over.
Set chapter markers while recording with M, add titles, links and images later, and export everything your podcast host wants in one go.
Jingles on keys 1–9, MIDI pads on your RØDECaster, and OSC remotes for the whole transport.
An opt-in local MCP server lets Claude and other AI agents build filter stacks, apply a voice chain and read tracks, markers and loudness. Off by default, and it only listens on your own machine.
Take the tour
Every speaker on a track of their own, with chapters, edit marks and the soundboard.
Fully open source
All of WavePod's code is on GitHub under the MIT License. No account, no subscription, no telemetry. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.
$ git clone https://github.com/michaelkleinhenz/wavepod $ cd wavepod && make install $ make demo ✓ WavePod running with virtual devices
Download
Free builds of every release are on GitHub.
The builds are not code-signed yet. On macOS, right-click the app and
choose Open the first time; on Windows, choose
More info › Run anyway if SmartScreen asks. On Linux, make
the AppImage executable (chmod +x WavePod-*.AppImage).
Older versions and release notes are on the
releases page.