File Cleanup for video

Remove background noise from video

Clean the sound of your MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV videos without touching the picture. Kleervox removes fan hum, traffic, wind and room noise right in your browser — the video is not uploaded for cleaning.

Great footage, noisy sound

Viewers forgive a soft image. They leave over bad audio.

A humming laptop fan, an air conditioner or a street outside can make a good video hard to watch. Re-shooting is rarely an option — cleaning the soundtrack usually is.

  • YouTube videos and vlogs
  • Online course and training videos
  • Screen recordings and tutorials
  • Zoom, Meet and Teams recordings
  • Interviews filmed on location
  • Phone videos with wind or traffic
How it works

Clean the soundtrack in three steps

No editing software and no timeline. The tool finds the audio track, cleans it and puts it back.

  1. 01

    Drop in the video

    An MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV file straight from your camera, phone or screen recorder.

  2. 02

    The soundtrack is cleaned

    A speech-trained AI model removes the background noise while keeping the voice natural.

  3. 03

    Download the same video

    Same format, same picture, clean sound — ready to upload or drop into your editor.

The picture is not re-encoded

Most video tools decode and re-encode the whole file to change its sound, which costs time and image quality. Kleervox copies the video frames into the new file untouched and only replaces the audio, so the picture is exactly your original.

That is also why a long video is quick to finish: only the sound is processed.

Need only the audio?

Pick WAV, MP3 or M4A as the output and you get the cleaned soundtrack on its own — for a podcast version of the video, a voice-over pass in your editor, or a transcript.

YouTube-ready loudness

Choose the YouTube loudness target (−14 LUFS) and the cleaned soundtrack is levelled and limited, so your video sounds as loud as the ones around it without clipping.

Large files, no upload

Video files are big. Because the cleaning runs in your browser, there is no upload to wait for and your footage never sits on someone else’s server. Files can be up to 30 minutes long on Free and Pro, and up to 3 hours on Creator.

Before you hit record

Fewer problems to fix later

Noise removal works best when the voice is clearly louder than the noise. Put the microphone close to the speaker, switch off fans where you can, and avoid recording right next to a window on a busy road.

If the video has music under the voice, the tool turns the music down instead of cutting it in and out between words, and tells you it did. For a music video with no speech, noise removal is not the right tool.

Recording a video call live? The AI noise cancellation desktop app cleans your microphone before it reaches Zoom, Meet or Teams, so the recording is clean from the start. Cleaning other files? Read how to remove background noise from audio files.

Guides

More ways to clean a recording

Plans

Free to start, more hours when you need them

Try it free: 30 minutes of cleaning a month on the Free plan, no card needed. Pro and Creator add more hours of file cleaning every month, plus unlimited live-call noise cancellation in the desktop app. Files can be up to 30 minutes long on Free and Pro, and up to 3 hours on Creator. Private storage comes with Pro and Creator.

Compare Free, Pro and Creator plans

Frequently asked

Video noise removal questions

More questions? Visit support.

How do I remove background noise from a video?

Sign in to Kleervox, open File Cleanup and drop in the video. The soundtrack is cleaned in your browser and the finished video downloads in the same format, with the picture exactly as it was.

Does cleaning the audio reduce the video quality?

No. The video frames are copied into the new file as they are — nothing is re-encoded — so the picture is identical to your original. Only the audio track is replaced with the cleaned one.

Which video formats are supported?

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV. The cleaned video comes back in the same format (an MP4 stays MP4, a MOV stays MOV). Files can be up to 30 minutes long on Free and Pro, and up to 3 hours on Creator.

Can I get just the cleaned audio from my video?

Yes. Choose WAV, MP3 or M4A as the output format and you get the cleaned soundtrack on its own — handy for a podcast version of a video or for editing the sound separately.

Is my video uploaded?

No. The cleaning runs in your browser on your own computer, which also means no waiting for a large upload. Kleervox only receives the video's length, size and type to count it against your plan.

Same picture, clean sound

Clean your first video

Sign in, drop in a video and download it with a clean soundtrack — the picture stays exactly as you shot it.