For Mac · Premiere Pro · Final Cut Pro · DaVinci Resolve · Fully offline

Every camera, in sync by its sound.

Wavestitch is a multicam audio sync app for Mac. Drop in the cards from your cameras and audio recorders. Press ⌘R. Get a synced timeline for your editor. No clap, no timecode, no uploads.

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Free downloadSync and preview are free14-day free trial for exportmacOS 14 Sonoma or later

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For editors switching tools

Your old sync plugin is gone. Your multicam shoots aren’t.

PluralEyes support ended in February 2024. Wavestitch keeps the workflow you know (drop the media in, sync, open the timeline in your editor), then keeps going where built-in sync gives up.

Built-in editor sync

Wavestitch

Fails on all-day shoots with start/stop clips

One track per device, every clip placed

Lip sync slowly drifts on hour-long takes

Drift measured and corrected per clip

Music-video takes stack on top of each other

One sequence per take, automatically

“Did it sync?” is a guess

Green, orange or red, with the reason

Cloud tools want your footage

No network access. Nothing leaves your Mac

How it works

Three steps. The second one is a keystroke.

Drop one folder per device

Cameras, Zoom or Tascam recorders, lav packs. A folder of only audio becomes a recorder. Sub-folders become their own devices.

Press ⌘R

Every clip lines up by its sound. Each one turns green, orange or red, so you know what to check before you start cutting.

Export and edit

Pick the timeline format your editor reads. Import the file and your synced timeline is waiting.

Features

The hard shoots are the point.

Two cameras and a clap are easy. Wavestitch is built for the day that wasn’t, and has been tried on real wedding days with up to 324 clips.

Start/stop, all day

Cameras that start and stop all day. Every clip lands on its device’s track, at the right moment.

Clock drift, corrected

Long interviews drift as device clocks disagree. Drift is measured per clip and fixed, so lips stay on the words.

One sequence per take

Twenty takes to one playback track? Wavestitch notices and gives each take its own sequence with the song.

You know what synced

Green, orange, red. The inspector shows each clip’s offset, confidence and drift, and what the placement rests on.

Camera clocks as a witness

Recording times confirm doubtful matches, place clips audio couldn’t, and catch a repeated chorus matched to the wrong spot.

Sample-accurate audio

Picture sits on whole frames. Recorder audio is trimmed by the exact fraction of a frame, so sound stays sample-accurate.

Private by design

The app has no network access. Client footage, unreleased music and NDAs stay on your Mac.

Projects that find their media

Move or rename the drive and the project still opens. Missing media? Point at a folder and it is found by name and size.

Matches in messy audio

Matching ignores recording level and shrugs off a single loud bump, so a recorder set far too quiet still lines up.

Split recorder files, aligned

A recorder that writes two sets of files, like a Zoom’s I and M files, is aligned by a measured offset instead of a guess. Clips that match each other move as one block.

Every camera at once

Preview several cameras side by side in one row and judge a sync by eye, with the recorder’s sound underneath.

Fix it yourself, fast

Nudge a clip by a frame or a millisecond, reset the sync, or remove a clip from the project. The big imports stay responsive while audio is prepared in the background.

The real app

What you see is what you sync.

Screenshots from the Mac app, not mock-ups.

Wavestitch with three camera angles of an interview and a timeline where every clip is synced — Every camera lined up by its sound.

The inspector showing a synced clip with its position, sync group, placed-by source, confidence and nudge buttons — Each clip’s offset, confidence and what the placement rests on.

The sync dialog with the option to put each take in its own sequence — Music video? One sequence per take.

Export

Straight into the editor you already use. No plugin needed.

XML timeline

.xml · XMEML v4

For Adobe Premiere Pro. The classic interchange format: cameras on video tracks, recorders on audio tracks.

FCPXML timeline

.fcpxml · version 1.10

For Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Cameras on lanes above, recorders below. Unsynced clips get a red to-do marker.

Who it’s for

Made for shoots with more than one camera.

Music videos & live music

Many takes to one playback track, several cameras per take.

Weddings & events

All-day recorders and cameras that start and stop through the day.

Documentary & interviews

Hour-long takes where every device’s clock drifts.

Podcasts

Two or three cameras plus a Zoom or Tascam, synced in one go.

Pricing

See it sync your footage first. Pay only to export.

Download Wavestitch free from the Mac App Store. Import, sync, inspect and preview cost nothing, so you watch your own footage line up before you spend a cent. Export is the Pro part, with a 14-day free trial.

Free, always
Import, sync, inspector, preview

Pro
Export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve

Yearly

14 days free

$34.99per year

About $2.92 a month. Cancel any time in your App Store settings.

14-day free trial with export unlocked
Unlimited projects, cameras and recorders
XML and FCPXML timeline export
Every new feature while you subscribe

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Lifetime

Offer ends Dec 1

$99.99$129.99once

Pay once and own it. No renewals.

Everything in Yearly
All future updates included
Works on every Mac signed in to your Apple ID
Buy it in the app, during or after the trial

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Private. No account, no sign-in, no network access. Your footage stays on your Mac.

Paid through Apple. Uses the payment method on your Apple ID. No new account to make.

Installs in a click. No license keys. It downloads and updates like any Mac app.

Questions

What’s free and what needs Pro?

Everything up to the export is free: import, sync, the inspector and the preview. You see your own footage sync before you pay. Exporting a timeline to your editor needs Wavestitch Pro (Yearly or Lifetime).

What if the audio is bad, or a recorder was set too quiet?

Matching ignores recording level and shrugs off a single loud bump, so quiet recorders and noisy rooms still match far more often. When audio can’t place a clip, the camera’s clock can, and clips placed that way are marked so you know to check them. Anything doubtful is orange or red, never silently wrong.

Do I need timecode or a clap?

No. Wavestitch matches clips by the sound each device recorded. If your files do carry timecode, it is used too, and a recorder’s timecoded files move together as one block.

Which editors does it work with?

Any editor that imports XMEML (XML) or FCPXML 1.10 timelines. Tested with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve 19. Every sequence goes in one file and each media file is imported once.

Is my footage uploaded anywhere?

Never. Syncing runs entirely on your Mac and the app has no network access.

What Mac do I need?

macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Do I have to subscribe?

No. Importing, syncing and previewing are free. To export, choose Yearly ($34.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial) or Lifetime ($129.99 once, no renewals; $99.99 until December 1). Both unlock exactly the same app.

How does the free trial work?

Start it in the app when you first export and everything is unlocked for 14 days. If you cancel in your App Store settings before it ends, you pay nothing. Syncing and previewing stay free whether or not you subscribe. You can switch to Lifetime at any point.

What if it doesn’t work on my footage?

Purchases are made through Apple, so refunds are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. We’d also love to hear about the shoot that broke it, so we can fix it.

Can I buy it for my whole team?

Each editor unlocks Wavestitch on their own Apple ID, with Yearly or Lifetime. For a bigger team, get in touch through the contact link below.

Is Wavestitch a PluralEyes alternative?

Yes. PluralEyes support ended in February 2024. Wavestitch keeps the same drop, sync, export workflow, plus drift correction, sync groups for several songs or events, and one sequence per music-video take.

Stop syncing by hand.

Drop the folders. Press ⌘R. Open it in your editor.

Download free on the Mac App Store

Free to sync and preview · 14-day free trial for export · macOS 14 Sonoma or later