--- title: "Remove Audio from Video — Mute MP4, No Upload | Compress Pro" description: "Strip the audio track from MP4, MOV or WebM videos right in your browser — the picture stays, the sound goes, nothing is uploaded. Free and private." canonical: https://compress-pro.com/remove-audio-from-video --- # Remove audio from video. > Mute any video on your own device — the audio just goes. Remove the audio track from a video right in your browser — **the file never leaves your device**. Drop MP4, MOV or WebM; the muted result comes back as an MP4 with voices, noise and music gone from the file itself, not just turned down. **No uploads · No ads · Free & open source.** ## How it works 1. Drop files anywhere on the page, click to browse, or paste with Ctrl/⌘ + V. 2. Pick a quality or preset — or set an exact target size and let the tool find it. 3. Compress, compare before/after, and download — individually or as a ZIP. ## Muted for good, not just in the player Muting in a player hides the sound; this removes the track from the file, which is what you want before sharing clips whose audio is private, noisy or copyrighted. The page arrives with the remove-audio switch already on, and the output simply contains no audio stream. Need it under a size cap too? The quality and target-size controls work in the same run — this is [Compress video](https://compress-pro.com/compress-video) machinery with the sound taken out. ## What happens to the picture The video is re-encoded through the same pipeline as the compressors — visually faithful at the default quality, and the removed audio alone saves whatever its bitrate cost. For the opposite job — keeping the sound and discarding the picture — [MP4 to MP3](https://compress-pro.com/mp4-to-mp3) extracts the audio instead. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is the audio really gone from the file? Yes — the output contains no audio track at all, which any player’s stream info confirms. It is not muted metadata; the stream is absent. ### Does removing audio make the video smaller? Somewhat — audio typically costs 128–256 kbps, so a 10-minute clip drops 10–20 MB from that alone. Lower the quality or set a target size in the same run to shrink the picture too. ### Which formats can I drop? MP4, M4V, MOV and WebM. The muted result is written as universal MP4, so it plays everywhere the original did — minus the sound. ### Is my video uploaded? No. Encoding runs on your own hardware from first frame to last — nothing streams to a server, which is also why there is no file-size cap and no queue. Close the tab and every trace of the footage is gone. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works. ## Related tools - [Compress videos](https://compress-pro.com/compress-video) - [Compress MP4 videos](https://compress-pro.com/compress-mp4) - [Convert MP4 to MP3](https://compress-pro.com/mp4-to-mp3) --- Part of [Compress Pro](https://compress-pro.com/) — every tool page has a markdown twin at `.md`. Full tool index: [llms.txt](https://compress-pro.com/llms.txt)