Right now all Audacity developers work on Audacity in their spare time for no pay. The rest of the time, some of us are students, and others work as software developers, musicians, recording engineers, and other jobs.

It took us three years to release Audacity 1.0, which was downloaded well over a million times and was widely regarded as a useful and very promising program.

Less than a year and a half later, we introduced the Audacity 1.2 series, containing hundreds more features, complete support for professional-quality 24-bit and 32-bit audio, a complete manual and support for many different languages. The current 1.2.6 has been downloaded over 40 million times. Since then, we've produced a successful Beta 1.3 series with significantly enhanced features. The next major step is a new 2.0 version to replace 1.2, based on the 1.3 series.

Imagine how much more we could get done if somebody could work on Audacity full-time! We are looking for sponsors (corporations, foundations, individuals, ...) who love Audacity and would like to pay us to develop it at a faster pace then we're developing now.

Why should I sponsor Audacity?

By sponsoring development of Audacity, you would be able to direct our attention to focus on the features that matter to you most, get immediate individual attention when you find bugs, and gain the satisfaction that you are making hundreds of thousands of users happy by providing them with a free tool to record, edit, and mix their audio.

We are potentially interested both in sponsors willing to fund at least a half-time developer post, or in smaller sponsorships. For example, someone could give us just a few thousand dollars to implement one particular feature.

To contact our Team, write to our Feedback e-mail address, or even better, join the Audacity-Devel mailing list and discuss your ideas with our developer community.