

(iPhones, too, but at that screen size, raw resolution becomes less important than logical resolution/real-world size phones will likely always require a different interface. And the iPad Pros (and in fact, all iPads) certainly don’t suffer from “small screen resolutions” their resolutions are much higher than most desktop PCs running today. So it seems like the basic technical obstacles described in the FAQ relating to performance and storage capacity are no longer present. Storage capacities up to 2 TB are also being offered. Not just mobile power-throttled versions of the same processors, but literally, the same processor. The newly-announced (as of last week) iPad Pro lineup contains the same Apple Silicon M1 processor as Macs currently capable of running Audacity. However, Audacity in principle does support a tablet PC running Windows (including Microsoft’s “Surface with Windows 8 Pro” tablet)… Therefore, considerable rewriting of Audacity and its interface will be required before Audacity will work on portable music players like iPod, smartphones like iPhone, tablet computers like iPad or any of the Nexus devices running Android. Also the wxWidgets interface library we use only has limited support for mobile operating systems and > small screen resolutions>. This requires more processing power and disk space than is available on most mobile devices.

The current Audacity FAQ answers, “Will there be a version of Audacity for iPod, iPad or other smartphones or tablet computers?” with:Ĭurrent versions of Audacity work internally with > uncompressed > audio to permit high quality editing with a wide range of effects. Both Apple and Adobe have promised to release some of their full-featured desktop creative apps for the new iPads, but it isn’t clear if their audio editors will be among the offerings (and of course, those are not open source, either). It is unfortunate that there is no open-source alternative to Audacity on the Apple App Store, and the “freemium” alternatives have core features gated by paywalls and/or arbitrary limits on size/number of projects.

I’m guessing this was a typo, but you can’t buy iPad apps at an Apple Store (except insofar as one can use an Apple Store’s free WiFi to reach the App Store, or purchase a gift card redeemable on the App Store! ). I suggest that you look in Apple Store for an alternative.
