FREE Tools & Resources

Cleanfeed is a freemium browser-based app that lets you record participants in different locations. A free account will let you save a mixed recording of all of your participants. Find out more in the Recording Online section of our site.

Riverside is a freemium browser-based app that lets you record participants in different locations. A free account will let you save a separate recording of each of your participants. You will need to use a multitrack editor (e.g. Garageband, Audacity) to mix and save your finished podcast. Find out more in the Recording Online section of our site.

Most video conferencing platforms (e.g.  Zoom, Teams) will let you record a meeting. The recording will most likely be a video file but you can separate the audio track to create your your podcast. Find out more in the Recording Online section of our site.

Audacity is a free audio editing application that works on PC, Mac, or Linux.

GarageBand is a free audio recording application for Mac computers.

Cakewalk is a free digital audio workstation (DAW) for Windows computers.

Log in, browse and download free music for your project in the YouTube audio library. Sort tracks by genre, instrument, mood, or duration.

Search CC Mixter for Creative Commons licensed music, samples, and acapellas.

Search Jamendo for Creative Commons licensed music.

Log in, browse and download free sound effects for your project in the YouTube audio library. Sort tracks by genre, instrument, mood, or duration.

"These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license."

"Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse."