Is audacity safe and free

Audacity is an open source program and is based out of SourceForge.net. It has been around and is one of the most popular open source music recording programs around.

Open Source programs are always safe to download and are always very lean because they are made by a community of programmers who simply care about making good software and are not in it for personal gain. You can rest assured that almost all open source programs especially ones on SourceForge.net will be very lean and completely safe.