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Increase Video Volume

Drop in a video, drag the sound up to five times louder, and hear it before you save it.

How it works

How to increase the volume of a video?

  1. Open your video

    Drag a file onto the box or pick one from your device. It is read straight off your disk, so there is no upload bar and no file-size ceiling.

  2. Drag the volume up

    Press play and move the slider from 0% to 500%. The preview changes as you drag, so you are listening to the finished file rather than guessing at a number.

  3. Or let it normalise

    One tap measures how loud the clip actually is and sets the slider to a normal listening level — the answer to "how much louder?" without doing the arithmetic.

  4. Download the louder copy

    The file saves as "yourvideo-volume.mp4" with the picture copied across untouched. Your original stays exactly as it was on disk.

Why it sounds better

Amplify video sound without wrecking it

A digital audio track has a hard ceiling, and multiplying a quiet recording by four sends everything above a quarter of that ceiling straight through it. The usual answer is to chop the tops off the waveform flat, which is exactly what you are hearing when a boosted clip crackles and tears on every loud syllable. It is not that the audio was bad — it is that the booster ran out of room and shrugged.

This one bends the peaks instead. Anything below about 60% of the ceiling passes through as a straight multiplication, untouched; above that the curve leans over smoothly and approaches the ceiling without ever reaching it. Quiet detail comes up by the full amount you asked for, loud moments round over rather than shear off, and the join between the two is smooth enough that you cannot hear where it starts — which is the whole trick behind a boost that still sounds like a recording.

The preview is not an approximation of that. The slider drives the same curve the exported file is written through, so pressing play tells you what the download will sound like — including the point at which the limiter starts doing the work.

Spec sheet

Features

Up to 5× louder

A quiet phone recording can go to 500% — that is +14 dB, enough to rescue a clip filmed from across a room.

Hear it before you save it

The preview runs through the same gain and limiting the export does, so the level you set is the level you get. No render-and-check loop.

No crunch at the top

Most boosters chop peaks flat and the sound tears. Here peaks are rounded off smoothly, so a big boost stays clean rather than distorting.

Normalise in one tap

Measures the clip’s real loudness — ignoring the silent gaps — and sets a level that matches everything else you watch.

Picture untouched

Only the audio is decoded and re-encoded. The video frames are copied across bit-for-bit, so nothing about the picture changes.

Nothing uploaded

The video is read and written on your own machine. No upload queue, no server copy, no watermark and no signup.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How much louder can it go?

Up to 500%, which is five times the original amplitude or +14 dB. Past that a boost is mostly amplified room noise rather than more of what you wanted to hear, so the slider stops there.

Will boosting the volume distort the sound?

Not the way most boosters do. Once a boost pushes peaks past the ceiling they have to go somewhere, and chopping them flat is what makes that harsh crackle. This rounds them off along a smooth curve instead, so the loud moments stay intact and the boost stays clean.

Does increasing the volume reduce the video quality?

The picture is not touched at all: the video frames are copied straight into the new file rather than re-encoded, so they are bit-identical to your original. Only the audio track is re-encoded, at 128 kbps AAC.

What does the normalise button do?

It decodes the soundtrack and measures how loud the clip really is — averaging across it while ignoring the silent gaps, so a pause between sentences does not count as quiet — then sets the slider to bring that level up to a normal one.

Is this video volume booster free, and does my video get uploaded?

It is free with no account and no limits, and nothing is uploaded. The video is decoded, boosted and written on your own device, so the file never leaves it.

What formats can I use, and what do I get back?

MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V, AVI and MKV go in — anything your browser can play. Output is always MP4, which every platform and player accepts.

Can I remove the audio instead of boosting it?

Yes — that is the other half of the same decision. Use remove audio from video to drop the track entirely and get a silent copy back.