Buy once instead of Adobe Audition
- Adobe Audition costs
- $276a year. Single-app plan at US$22.99/mo, annual billed monthly. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 4apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $35Fission, which pays back in 2 months
- Cost nothing
- 0freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 FissionTrim, split and convert audio files without re-encoding them | $35This version | Major versions are a separate $15 purchase, though new ones come along rarely |
 REAPERA tiny, DRM-free DAW for $60, with updates through version 8.99 | $60This version | The $60 tier stops at $20,000 yearly gross revenue; past that the licence is $225 |
 Audio HijackRecord and route any audio on your Mac, one licence per person | $69This version | Major versions are a separate purchase — the jump from 3 to 4 cost $29 |
 Logic ProFull pro DAW with a very large bundled sound library | $199.99Perpetual | Mac only, and Logic Pro for iPad is subscription-only rather than part of this purchase |