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A private audio editor,
because nothing uploads

Decode, play, and export entirely in the browser — there is no server in the path to trust or mistrust. No upload, no account.

  • Tempo & pitch, linked
    50–200%, like a record — drag either slider, hear it live.
  • Nothing uploads
    The song never leaves your device. No server, no account, no queue.
  • Free export
    MP3 or WAV, the whole song, rendered in seconds.
  • Real reverb
    Six rooms, small to large, with a mix control.
  • Any common format
    MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC in; MP3 or WAV out.
  • The app goes further
    Library, playlists, visualizers, video export — free on iPhone & iPad.

The app

This tool comes from a full music player.

Y2K Player is a music player for iPhone and iPad. It plays your own files at any speed, remembers the settings for every song, and has themes that change how the whole app looks. Every phone in this row is the same app with a different theme.

Visualizers

Visualizers drawn live from the music.

While a song plays, the app can show a visualizer generated from the audio in real time. You can switch visualizers during the song, and the app’s video export uses them as the background.

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Privacy as architecture, not as promise

Most audio sites answer the privacy question with a policy document: we delete your uploads after some hours, we do not listen, trust us. A policy is a promise about a server that has your file. This tool answers differently — the server never has your file, so there is nothing a policy would need to govern.

Here is the whole path your song takes. The page loads once from our server: code, styles, the interface. From that moment the server's part is over. When you pick a file, the browser opens it directly from your disk into the tab's memory. Decoding it into raw audio happens on your processor. Playback, the speed change, the reverb rooms — your processor. Export — your processor, writing the MP3 or WAV straight back to your own storage. 0 bytes of your audio cross the network at any step, because no step has a network in it.

The proof is that it works offline

This is a claim you can test rather than take on faith. Load the page, then turn on airplane mode — and keep working. Open a file, change its speed, add a room, export. Everything functions, because everything was always local. A tool that uploads cannot pass this test; this one passes it by construction.

What the architecture removes

Every privacy risk of an upload tool is downstream of one event: your file arriving on someone else's machine. Remove that event and the risks do not get smaller — they stop existing as categories.

No stored copy means no retention period to wonder about, no breach that could include your audio, no request from anyone that could surface it. No accounts exist, so there is no profile connecting files to a person. Unreleased demos, voice memos, interview recordings, a client's rough mix — the reason you can put them here is not that we are trustworthy, it is that trusting us is not part of the transaction.

Architecture, compared honestly
QuestionThis toolUpload-based converters
Upload requiredNo — there is no server in the audio pathYes — the server is the processor
Server copy of your fileNever existsExists at least during processing
Account requiredNoOften — stored files need owners
Watermark over the musicNever — a spoken note after the song, croppableSome stamp sound into the track on free plans
Works offlineYes — that is the test of the whole claimNo
File size cap50 MB, set by your device's memorySet by each service's server

The editor this privacy buys you

The tool itself is deliberately focused: speed from 50% to 200% with pitch linked at 12 semitones per doubling, six reverb rooms — Air, Room, Chamber, Hall, Plate, Cathedral — with one mix control, loop, volume, waveform, and free MP3/WAV export. It is not a multitrack editor and does not pretend to be; it is the speed-and-space job, done privately and done well. A craft note while you are here: the rooms add level, so lower the volume slider a little when the mix is high, and judge the loudest chorus before you export.

Start to finish — offline, if you like

The airplane-mode version of the walkthrough, since this page can honestly offer one.

1. Open this page while connected — this is the only step that uses the network, and it transfers only the tool itself.
2. Optional, for the cautious: turn on airplane mode now. Everything after this works identically.
3. Drop your file on the tool or use the picker, up to 50 MB.
4. Set the speed by ear — down toward 85% for slowed, up toward 115–135% for sped-up — and add a room with a modest mix if the track wants space.
5. Export MP3 or WAV. The file is written directly to your device. Free exports add a short spoken note after the song ends — never over the music — which one crop in any trimmer removes.

The limits, stated as plainly as the strengths

A trust page that lists only strengths is an advertisement. Here is what this architecture does not do, so the claim you rely on is the exact one being made.

It protects the file while you edit it — nothing more. The moment you post an export somewhere public, that copy is public; local processing says nothing about where you send the result afterward. It does not change rights, either: a speed change of someone else's song is still someone else's song, edited privately or not. And it does not clean up after your own device — the export sits in your Downloads folder like any file, visible to anyone who uses your computer, and your browser's download history records it the way it records every download. Private processing is not the same as a private machine.

One more boundary worth naming: the page cannot vouch for software you have added to your browser. Extensions you have installed run with the access you granted them, on every site including this one. The tool's own code sends no audio anywhere; if you work with genuinely sensitive material and take the threat seriously, the airplane-mode workflow closes the question for everything at once — nothing can transmit when there is no connection.

What is left after the honesty

Even with every limit on the table, the core holds: no server copy of your audio ever exists, so the failure modes that define upload tools — retention windows, breaches that include your files, accounts linking files to people — are not reduced here, they are absent. That is the claim, its edges drawn. It is checkable in one gesture, and the paragraph above told you the gesture.

The app is built on the same principle

You love music tools that stay on your device? There is a player for that.

Y2K Player, a music player for iPhone and iPad, applies this page's architecture to a whole library: songs live on the device, each one keeps its own speed and effect settings, playlists play your versions, and everything — playback, editing, even video export at 1080p over visualizers — works fully offline with no account anywhere. Free to use. Pro is one payment — forever. The browser tool is the private single-file editor; the app is the private library.

Questions people actually ask

Privacy questions with checkable answers.

Does my song get uploaded?
No. The song never leaves your device. The browser opens the file from your disk into the tab, processes it on your processor, and writes the export back to your storage — no server appears anywhere in that path.
Do I need to install anything?
No. The tool is delivered as a web page and runs in the tab. Installation is not what makes it private, though — the local processing is. Installed apps and web pages can both be private or leaky; this one is checkable either way.
How can I verify the no-upload claim myself?
Two ways. The simple one: load the page, enable airplane mode, and use the tool — it keeps working, which an uploading tool cannot do. The technical one: open your browser's developer tools on the network tab while you work and watch — no audio leaves.
Is my file stored anywhere after I close the tab?
No. The file exists in the tab's memory only while you work. Closing the tab releases it; there is no server copy because none was ever made, and no history or cloud locker exists in the tool.
Can I use this for unreleased or confidential audio?
That is the use case this architecture serves best. A demo, a client mix, an interview recording — no third-party copy is created, so no third party can lose, leak, or be compelled to produce it. For maximum caution, work in airplane mode.
Why do you not need a privacy policy promise about uploads?
Because a deletion promise is only needed when a copy exists. Here the audio never reaches a server, so there is nothing to delete and no retention window to trust. The architecture answers the question the policy would have had to.
What does the editor actually do?
Speed from 50% to 200% with pitch linked at 12 semitones per doubling, six reverb rooms with a mix control, loop, volume, waveform, and free export to MP3 or WAV. It is a focused speed-and-space editor, not a multitrack workstation, and it says so.
Why is the file limit 50 MB?
Because your own device holds the entire file in memory while processing it — that is the design that removes the server. 50 MB fits nearly any single song; an hour-long recording may need to be split first.
Does it work offline?
Yes — fully, once the page has loaded. Offline operation is not a bonus feature here; it is the observable consequence of the no-upload architecture, and the easiest way to confirm it.
Is there a watermark on exports?
Nothing over the music, ever. Free exports end with a short spoken note after the final second of the song, and one crop in any trimmer removes it. The track itself is untouched throughout.
Is the app private in the same way?
Yes. Y2K Player keeps the library on your iPhone or iPad, works completely offline, and has no account — each song stores its own settings on the device. Purchases go through the App Store rather than any signup of ours.

Trust the architecture, not the promise.

Load the page, go offline, and the tool keeps working — that is the whole argument.

Free to download and keep. Pro is a one-time purchase — buy it once and it never renews.