Mute a video (remove the audio), free

Mute a video in three steps

Drop your video, mute it, and download — instantly, in your browser.

Nothing uploads

The clip never leaves your device.

When you’d want this

The most common case is a screen recording with unwanted system audio. Muting gives you a silent clip to narrate in post or pair with a voiceover track. It also helps when a platform requires separate audio delivery, or when you want a loopable background video with no sound.

Stock-footage workflows use it a lot: footage libraries often license audio separately from the video. Removing the audio track means you won’t accidentally distribute unlicensed sound.

What stays the same

Only the audio track is stripped. The video codec, resolution, bitrate, frame rate, and color profile are all untouched — the output is bit-for-bit identical to the input except the audio stream is gone. There’s no re-encoding, so there’s no generation loss and no waiting for a long encode.

Format support

Works with MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, and AVI. The output is always an MP4 (H.264 video, no audio), which plays on every device and platform without extra codecs.

Common pitfalls

The one thing that trips people up is confusing “mute” with “no audio stream” versus “zero-volume audio stream” — some social platforms detect and reject videos with an audio track that’s technically present but silent. This tool removes the stream entirely, so you won’t hit that rejection.

If your video has multiple audio tracks (common in MKV files from video rips), all of them are removed. If you only want to drop one track and keep the others, you need a full editor like VLC or Handbrake instead.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your device. The muting runs in a WebAssembly process inside your browser tab — no server, no account, no record of your file. Check your browser’s network panel while it runs: there are no outgoing requests.

Keep the audio instead?

If you want the sound on its own, extract the audio as MP3 or WAV.