Point SFXPick at a folder and blitz through thousands of clips with the keyboard. Instant playback, real waveforms, one‑key favorites and a built‑in editor for loops, clips and cuts, built to fly through libraries of 100,000+ files.
No tagging chores, no cloud, no bloat. Just point it at your library and start auditioning.
Point it at a folder and it scans every subfolder, reads duration, sample rate, bit depth and channels.
Arrow up and down the list and each sound plays the moment you land on it. No clicking play.
See the shape of every clip and click or drag the waveform to scrub to any spot.
A native audio engine handles 24‑bit, 32‑bit and float WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG, AIFF, M4A and more.
Hit F to favorite, or D to favorite with a note. Build a shortlist as you go.
Press X to reject a clip and clear it out of the way, so only contenders remain.
Open any sound in the built‑in editor (C) to make seamless crossfade loops, clean clips with fades, or cut out regions, saved straight into your Created folder.
Filter by name instantly, or browse pack by pack with a nested folder tree in the sidebar.
Right‑click any clip to surface others that sound like it, ranked across your whole library. A slider widens or narrows how many matches you see.
Tens of thousands of files stay snappy. Tested on a real library of ~147,000 sounds.
Copy every favorite into a folder in one click, with a notes file alongside. Originals stay put.
Export a group loudness‑matched (EBU R128) so every sound plays at the same volume, with no clipping. No more riding the fader between clips.
The whole loop is designed so your hands never have to leave the keyboard.
Drop in your sample packs or SFX library. SFXPick indexes it in the background.
Move through the list with ↑/↓ and every clip auto‑plays so you hear it instantly.
F to keep, D to note, X to toss. Narrow thousands down to a shortlist.
Send your favorites to a folder, ready to drop straight into your project.
SFXPick is a native Windows app, not a browser wrapper. That means a proper audio engine, low latency, and formats the web simply can't play.
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The quick facts about how SFXPick works.
Yes. Free, with no account and no sign‑up. Download it and point it at a folder.
Windows, as a small native desktop app. The desktop runtime is tiny and there's no Chromium or Node under the hood.
WAV (including 24‑bit, 32‑bit and float), FLAC, MP3, OGG, AIFF, M4A/AAC and more: formats browser‑based tools often can't play.
Designed for huge libraries: it's been run on a real collection of around 147,000 sounds and stays fast.
Yes, the built‑in editor has three modes: Loop (a seamless, click‑free crossfade loop), Clip (a clean region with fade in/out) and Cut (remove regions with a crossfade baked at the seam). Your created files land in a Created folder inside the app, ready to favorite or export like any other sound.
Yes. Right‑click a clip and choose Find similar, and SFXPick ranks the rest of your library by how close each one sounds, using an acoustic fingerprint of every file. A slider controls how many of the closest matches you see.
Yes. Export a group at even loudness and SFXPick measures each file's perceived loudness (EBU R128) and matches them all to the same level, lifted as loud as it can go without clipping. The matched copies are written as WAV; your originals are left untouched.
No. SFXPick is read‑only. The only time it copies anything is when you explicitly export your favorites to a folder.
Locally. The index and your favorites live in a small local database on your machine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Audition your whole library the fast way. Download SFXPick and find the one in minutes.