Delete the audio track from a video in seconds while the picture stays bit-for-bit identical. Nothing is uploaded, and there’s no account, watermark or limit.
Drop one or more videos (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV) on the page, or tap to choose them. Each row shows the length and resolution, with the note “Video copied as is, sound track dropped”.
There is nothing to set: press “Remove audio from 1 video” (the count follows the number of files).
Wait a few seconds per file, then press Download. With several videos, “Download all (.zip)” saves them together; “Clear list” starts over.
A video file is a container holding separate tracks: usually one picture track and one sound track, interleaved in small packets. Removing the sound means writing a new container with only the picture packets. Nothing is decoded or compressed again, so the image is bit-for-bit the same as before and a two-hour recording is done about as fast as your disk can read it.
The container stays what it was: an MP4 comes back as MP4, an iPhone MOV as MOV, a WebM as WebM and an MKV as MKV, with “-muted” added to the name. The file shrinks by roughly the size of the sound track, often around 2 to 5 percent for phone footage. Subtitle tracks, extra audio languages and descriptive metadata such as the location your phone recorded are left out as well.
Common reasons to do this: wind roar or traffic that ruins otherwise good footage, a private conversation picked up in the background, copyrighted music you aren't allowed to publish, or a clip you plan to put your own voice-over or soundtrack on in an editor.
Silent files are also the cleanest choice for a looping background video at the top of a website. Browsers generally only allow a video to start playing by itself when it is muted, and a file with no sound track at all can't surprise visitors with noise if the page's muted setting is ever forgotten. It is also slightly lighter to download.
iPhone & iPad
The muted clip stays in your library; when you share it from Photos it is sent without sound.
Android
Button placement changes between Google Photos versions; other gallery apps may not offer muting at all.
Mac
iMovie re-encodes the whole video on export, which takes longer and changes the file slightly.
Windows
Clipchamp re-encodes the video and asks you to sign in with a Microsoft account.
The video compressor also has a “Remove audio” checkbox, but it re-encodes the picture to H.264 at a lower bitrate while it drops the sound. Use it when you need a silent file and a smaller one at the same time, for example a muted clip that must fit under an email or chat limit.
Use this page when the picture must stay untouched: footage you will edit later, a 4K clip you want at full quality, or a hero video you already compressed carefully. It finishes in seconds and keeps the original format, so an HEVC iPhone video remains HEVC.
If you want to keep the sound and throw the picture away instead, extract the audio. If only one noisy section is the problem, trimming that part out may be better than silencing the whole video.
No. The picture packets are copied into the new file without being decoded, so every frame is exactly what the camera saved. Only the audio track is left out.
Not on this page: it removes the whole sound track. To silence one section, use a video editor such as iMovie or Clipchamp and lower the volume on that stretch, or trim the noisy part away if you don't need it.
Sound takes very little room next to the picture. A phone video's AAC track is usually around 128 to 256 kbit/s while the picture uses several megabits per second, so the saving is small. To make the file much smaller, use the compressor instead.
Browsers usually let a video play automatically only when it is muted, and muted autoplay is widely allowed, so a silent file is a good fit for a looping header video. Still keep the muted setting on the video element in your page code, so every browser is sure to treat it as silent.
In the new file, yes: there is no hidden or muted track to switch back on. Your original video is not touched, so keep it if you might need the sound later.
No. Your browser rewrites the file on your own device and saves the result back to it; filetidy never receives the video.
Last updated October 28, 2026