Add & edit audio

After you’ve created a project, enhance your videos using YouTube Create’s editing tools. Give your videos a soundtrack with music from the YouTube Shorts Audio Library, our royalty-free music options, or add narration with voiceovers and sound effects.

YouTube Create is available on Android phones (with at least 4GB of RAM) and iPhone XR and newer models running iOS 17 or later in all countries listed here. This app may be available in more countries/regions in the future.

Add music & sound effects

With YouTube Create, you can add licensed popular music from the Shorts Audio Library or royalty-free music to your videos to enhance your work.

To add music to a project:

1. Tap Sound within the toolbar.
2. Use the tabs at the top of the page to filter for music from the Shorts Audio library, royalty-free music, sound effects, or music saved to your device.
3. Search for a song, or browse by genre.
4. Tap on the song to preview or to add the song or sound to your video.

Note: Music from the Shorts Audio Library will automatically be removed if you export a video that is longer than 15 seconds. Upload directly to YouTube to use longer clips of licensed music up to 60 seconds. Some licensed tracks cannot be split, duplicated, or combined with other personal or AI-generated music in the same project.

Record a voiceover

Bring your videos to life with voiceover narrations. To add a voiceover to your video:

1. Open a project and tap Voiceover within the toolbar.
2. Press and hold to add a voiceover. Repeat to add another voiceover to the same video.
3. Tap Done to add the recording to your video.

Edit audio

Use YouTube Create’s audio tools to reduce noise and clean up audio within your videos. To edit audio:

1. Open a project and tap to select an audio layer you’d like to edit.
2. Use the toolbar to edit your audio recording:
   • Split : Cut the duration of your audio layer.
   • Volume : Use the slider to change the volume of the selected audio.
   • Fade : Use the sliders to set timestamps for your audio to fade in and fade out of your video.
   • Find beats : Use beat markers to easily edit the song layer in your video.
   • Audio cleanup : Remove unwanted noise and enhance the quality of your voice within your recording.
   • Delete : Tap to remove the audio clip from your video.
3. Tap Done to save changes.

Note: Audio tracks cannot exceed the length of your video. You can tap and drag the audio clip to trim the length of the recording.