Rescroll

Remove silence from video and audio, automatically.

Drop in a video or a recording. Every pause is found and cut, and you download it back at full quality: free, with no watermark, no account and no upload.

  • 100% free
  • No watermark
  • No sign-up
  • Full quality
  • Files stay on your device

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How it works

How to remove silence, free, in three steps.

  1. 1

    Drop in your video or audio

    MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, WAV or M4A, from a phone, a camera, a screen recorder or a podcast mic. It opens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Check the cuts

    Every pause is found and marked on the waveform. Set how quiet counts as silence, how long a pause must be, and how much breathing room to leave. The cuts update as you move the sliders.

  3. 3

    Download the tightened file

    Get it back in the same kind of file, at full quality with no watermark. Or download the cuts as an EDL and open them in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

Why this one

Free, with nothing held back, and nothing uploaded.

Finds the pauses for you

It listens to the whole recording and sets the threshold from its own room noise and voice level, so it works on a quiet studio mic and a noisy phone alike.

Cuts that don't click

The sound fades over 10 milliseconds into and out of every cut, and short gaps of breath are kept, so the result sounds edited, not chopped.

Full quality, no watermark

Videos come back as an MP4 at their own resolution, up to 4K, encoded at high quality. Audio comes back as the format it came in: M4A, MP3 or WAV.

Keep editing in your editor

Download the cut list as an EDL, import it into Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, and the jump cuts are on your timeline, linked to your original file.

Your file is opened and processed by your own browser. It is never sent to a server, so it stays private, and there’s no upload to wait for.

What is a silence remover?

A silence remover finds the pauses in a recording and cuts them out, so the talking runs on without dead air. It's the first edit most talking-head videos, tutorials, podcasts and voice-overs get, and done by hand it means scrubbing through the whole recording, cut by cut.

This one does it in your browser. It listens to the file, marks every pause longer than half a second, and joins the rest end to end, keeping a short breath either side of each cut so speech still sounds natural. A ten-minute video usually loses a minute or two.

Video comes back as an MP4 at its own resolution. Audio comes back in its own format. If you'd rather finish the edit yourself, the cuts download as an EDL for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

Ready-made versions of the silence remover

Remove silence from audio

Tighten a podcast, voice memo or voice-over: every pause cut, saved back as MP3, WAV or M4A.

Jump cut generator

Turn a raw talking-head take into a tight, fast-paced jump-cut edit in one click.

Rescroll

Silence was the easy part.

Rescroll's AI video editor cuts more than pauses. Tell it what you want and it removes the bad takes and filler words, adds captions, zooms and motion graphics, and gets your video ready to post.

  • Cuts retakes and filler words, not just silence
  • Captions, zooms and B-roll from one sentence
  • Exports for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube
Try RescrollSee the AI video editor

Questions

The silence remover: your questions, answered.

How do I remove silence from a video for free?

Open this page, drop your video in, and the pauses are found and marked for you. Adjust the sliders if you want tighter or looser cuts, then press Remove silence and download the MP4. It's free, adds no watermark and doesn't upload your video.

Is there a free silence remover with no watermark?

Yes, this one. Many online silence removers watermark free exports or cap their length. This one runs on your own device, so there's nothing to cap: no watermark, no time limit, no account.

How does the silence remover decide what's silence?

It measures how loud the recording is every 10 milliseconds. Anything below the threshold for longer than the minimum pause is cut, apart from a short margin kept on each side so words don't start or end abruptly. The threshold starts a third of the way from the room's noise up to your voice, worked out from the recording itself; you can move it.

Will it cut off the start or end of my words?

Not with the default settings: 0.15 seconds of each pause is kept on either side of the speech. If you speak softly or trail off, raise the padding or lower the threshold and watch the marked cuts change before you export.

Can I use the result in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut?

Yes. The downloaded MP4 opens in any editor. For Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve you can also download the cuts as an EDL (edit decision list): import it and every cut is on your timeline, pointing at your original footage, so you can still adjust each one.

Does it work on music or videos with background music?

It's made for speech. With music under the voice there may be no quiet moments to find, so little or nothing is cut. Use it on the voice recording before the music is added.

Is this silence remover really free?

Yes. There's no price, no trial, no account and no limit on how many files you do. The silence remover runs on your own device, in your browser, so it costs us nothing to run and we don't charge for it.

Does it add a watermark?

No. The file you download has no watermark, no logo and no intro or outro added. It's your file, changed only in the way you asked.

Is my video or audio uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is opened and processed by your browser, on your device, and never sent to a server: not to us, not to anyone. You can check: watch the Network tab of your browser's developer tools while it works, and you'll see the file is never sent anywhere.

How big a file can it handle?

There's no file size limit of ours. Files of several gigabytes work, because the file is read from your disk as it's needed rather than loaded all at once. What sets the pace is your device: a long 4K video takes longer on an older laptop than on a new one.

Which browsers does it work in?

Current versions of Chrome, Edge and Safari, and Firefox on a computer: any browser with the WebCodecs API for encoding video and sound. Some files, like iPhone HEVC video, need Chrome, Edge or Safari to decode. A computer is much faster than a phone for long videos.

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