Mute a video (remove the audio), free

Mute a video in one click

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

Nothing uploads

The clip is stripped of audio on your machine and never sent out.

When you’d want this

The most common case is a screen recording with unwanted system audio, or background chatter you’d rather not send out. Say you recorded a walkthrough, standup-demo.mp4, with people talking in the room behind you; muting it before you post gives you a clean, silent clip to narrate later or pair with a voiceover. 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. Headed for a chat as a GIF instead? GIFs carry no audio at all, so that format drops the sound for you.

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

The muting runs inside your browser tab. There’s no server on the other end and no account, so your file leaves no record with us. Check the network panel while it runs and you’ll see no outgoing requests.

Keep the audio instead?

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

Want the words first?

Need a record of what’s said before you drop the audio? Hushscript transcribes the original clip with speaker labels.