# Easyeffects (open-source audio and music app)

> Easyeffects is a free, open-source audio and music app for Linux. Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications. It has 10,313 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license. Its source code is on GitHub at wwmm/easyeffects.

This application was formerly known as PulseEffects, but it was renamed to Easy Effects after it started to use GTK4 and GStreamer usage was replaced by native PipeWire filters. And eventually the whole application was ported from GTK4 to a combination of Qt, QML and KDE/Kirigami frameworks.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects |
| Platforms | Linux |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 10,313 |
| License | GPL-3.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | HTML |
| Website | https://wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/ |
| Official | no |
| Category | Audio & music production |
| Latest release | none on GitHub |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

## Install

### Flathub (Linux)

```sh
flatpak install flathub com.github.wwmm.easyeffects
```

Package page: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

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