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Increase video volume when the recording is too quiet

A clip you can barely hear, filmed too far from whoever was talking.

Pick how much louder you need it — a bit, twice as loud, or much louder — and get the same video back with the sound turned up. It works the other way too if something is too loud.

By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: September 2026

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What the steps actually mean

Loudness is measured in decibels, and the scale is not linear: +6 dB doubles the signal (the menu calls it twice as loud), to the ear +10 dB is closer to twice as loud, and +3 dB is a noticeable lift. Start at +6. If it's still too quiet, run it through again or type your own value (up to +30 dB) rather than reaching straight for a huge step.

Turning it up also turns the hiss up

There is no getting round this: amplifying a recording amplifies everything in it, including the room hum and the hiss of the microphone. If the result is loud but unpleasant, the problem was never the volume — clean the noise out first with CleanGrab and then turn it up.

About your file

The HEIC, JPG, PNG and WebP converters here run entirely inside your browser and never send anything to us. Audio inside a video cannot be rewritten in a browser, so your file is uploaded to our own machine, processed there, and deleted immediately afterwards — we keep no copy.

Limits: up to 1200 MB and 20 minutes per upload.

How to increase the volume of a video
  1. Drop the video on the box above: MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV or AVI.
  2. Pick how much louder (+3, +6 or +10 dB), or type your own value.
  3. Download the same video with the sound turned up; the picture is copied untouched.

That's the whole way to make video louder: this video volume booster online raises every part of the track by the same amount, so quiet speech and loud music go up together. It works as an MP4 volume booster on the file you already have and keeps the MP4 container, and you can increase MP4 volume online from a phone just as well. There's no watermark and no daily limit, so you can increase video volume online free as often as you like, and boost video volume on several clips one after another.

MP3 and WAV files go in too: to increase MP3 volume, drop the audio file in the same way (it comes back as MP3). It isn't a limiter, though: turn it up too far and the peaks clip, so start at +6. As a sound booster it's one fixed step, not a video editor; for louder audio in one part of a clip only, you need a timeline.

Want the level to even out automatically instead of one flat boost? Normalize audio does that. Working on an audio file rather than a video? Change audio volume is the same tool set up for audio, with exact dB steps. Just want the sound gone entirely? Remove audio from video strips it out.

Common questions

How do I make a video louder?

Drop it in, pick how much louder you want it and download the result; +6 dB is the usual step. It works as an audio booster and a volume increaser in one: each volume boost raises the whole track by a set number of decibels, evenly, not only the quiet parts, and every volume increase online runs on our server. There is no app to install and no editor needed: the video audio louder, the picture untouched.

How do I increase volume without distortion?

How to increase volume cleanly: raise volume in small steps, +3 or +6 dB at a time, listening after each. It only distorts if the recording was already close to the maximum; if it comes back crackly, run the original again with a smaller step. It is a sound increaser, not a noise filter, so background noise gets louder too.

Can I boost volume of video clips from WhatsApp or a screen recording?

Yes, any video file works. To increase volume online video clips you received, save them first and drop them in; to increase volume video online from a screen recording, the same. The result is a video with the volume louder than before, nothing else changed.

Can I make a video quieter instead?

Yes: pick −3, −6 or −10 dB, or type your own negative value.

Is it really free?

Yes. No account, no watermark and no daily limit.

Does it work on MP4, MP3 and other audio files?

Yes. MP4 is the most common format here, and the MP4 container is kept, so to increase volume of MP4 files you just drop them in. An MP3 or WAV works too and comes back as MP3; to increase volume of MP3 files in bulk, run them one after another. It is one tool to increase audio volume in a video or an audio file alike.

Does it work on a phone and on a PC?

Yes. On an iPhone open this page in Safari, on Android in Chrome, pick the video from your camera roll, choose the level and download; on a PC any desktop browser works. To increase volume on PC speakers in general, that is a Windows sound setting; this changes the file itself.

What is the difference between boosting volume and normalizing?

Boosting raises everything by the same amount. Normalizing targets a set loudness and controls peaks so nothing clips. Use normalize if the loud parts are fine but quiet parts are too soft.

How much should I increase video volume by?

+6 dB is the right starting point for a quiet recording. Pick +3, +6 or +10 dB, or type your own exact value; if it still sounds soft, run it through again.

Can I increase volume of online video, like a clip playing on a website?

No, only a file you have. To increase volume of video online in the sense of a video file, upload it here; for a video playing on a website, the volume is set by the player and your device.

Does the picture change, or the video quality?

No. Only the sound is adjusted and the video track is copied through exactly as it was, so this does not increase video quality either. For a different size there is the video resizer; real upscaling is a separate job.

Can this increase YouTube volume?

Only for a file before you upload it: boost the audio here, then upload the louder version. To increase YouTube volume while watching, that's the player's slider and your device.

Can I increase microphone volume with this?

Only after the fact: if a recording came out too quiet, boost the file here. The live input level of a microphone is a setting in your operating system or recording app, before you record.

Does this increase headphone volume?

No, it can't touch your headphones. It makes the sound inside the file louder, so it plays louder on any headphones or speakers.

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