AnyFormat

00 MOV → WAV

MOV to WAV

For editing and transcription, with no second compression.

Drop files or a folder here

or choose from your device · paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

.mov .qt

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Right for speech, wrong for music. At a fixed quality the file size does not change — but mono tolerates a much lower quality than stereo, so combine the two to actually shrink the file.

Leave at 0 for the whole file.

0 means run to the end.

  • No upload The conversion runs in this tab. Your file never travels — not to us, and not to the advertising.
  • No sign-up, no email, no daily cap There is no account system to sign up to.
  • No size limit we invented Only your device's memory — about ~2 GB on a desktop browser, ~400 MB on a phone.
  • Turn your Wi-Fi off and convert anyway The conversion needs nothing but this page. Ads will not load without a connection; your file will still convert. That is the whole claim, and it takes five seconds to check.

Extracts the audio from a MOV as uncompressed WAV. The right target when the audio is going into an editor or a transcription tool rather than into a music player.

The video codec does not matter

HEVC from an iPhone, ProRes from Final Cut, H.264 from anything else — the video track is discarded before decoding, so none of it has to be supported. Only the audio track is read.

Best case for transcription

A MOV from a professional camera often carries uncompressed PCM audio. Extracting that to WAV is genuinely lossless: the samples are copied, not re-encoded.

For a speech model, mono at 16 kHz is what most expect and it keeps the file small. Both options are on this page.

More than one audio track, and which one you get

A QuickTime file from a camera or a screen recorder often carries several audio tracks — a camera microphone and a lapel mic, or system audio and voice recorded separately. The first audio track is taken, which is the one most players default to, and the rest are left behind. If the track you wanted is not the one that came out, the reliable fix is to export the track you want from the editor that made the file, since nothing in the container marks one as the intended default.

Other names for this

Also searched as “quicktime to wav”, “mov audio to wav”.

Questions

Is the audio re-encoded?
If the MOV already carries PCM audio, it is effectively copied. If it carries AAC, it is decoded once to PCM — which is unavoidable and adds no further loss.
What settings suit transcription?
Mono at 16 kHz, which is what most speech models expect and is far smaller.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The demuxing, decoding and encoding all happen in this tab using the browser’s own media stack plus a WebAssembly encoder. A recording can be an interview, a lecture, a private call — none of it is transmitted. Turn your Wi-Fi off after the page loads and it still works.
How large a file can I convert?
There is no imposed limit, only your device’s memory — around 2 GB in a desktop browser and 400 MB on a phone, since the file is held in memory while it converts. A two-hour video converts in well under a minute on a laptop.