The greatest films and shows have one thing in common. You forget there are cameras. You forget the people you’re watching are actors. You forget the sound is recorded. It feels so real that you forget you’re watching fiction.

It was early Sunday morning at the start of 2025. Our boss was already ranting about us needing more sounds in the library.

We’ve just rolled out new versions of our popular free tools, Shape it and Place it, giving sound designers even more precision and performance.

Turns out, almost nobody uses Soundly for the sound effects. Most of you just boot it up, enter the Soundly Meditation Mode, and grab a rare moment of peace before dealing with a timeline full of b...

We just hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube – thank you! And now you might wonder: Why all the videos?

Some suggested we use it to rewrite history, like recording the sounds of taking out Hitler. But honestly, we already have enough gunshots and German shouting in our library.