MOV in, WAV out: free, no signup, and both files delete themselves within an hour.
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Try another fileYou can convert MOV to WAV for free: upload your MOV above and Flippy extracts the audio as WAV in your browser, no signup needed.
Turning MOV into WAV isn't really a conversion: it's an extraction: Flippy lifts the audio track out of your MOV and re-packs it on its own. You keep the sound and drop the pixels, swapping a MOV that runs frequently huge: camera and ProRes MOVs can run to gigabytes per minute for a WAV built for recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters.
A classic MOV to WAV job: iPhone footage and camera originals, bound for editors and audio tools that want every sample intact.
MOV is Apple's homebody: gorgeous on a Mac, awkward everywhere else. It was born in 1991, Apple's QuickTime team, and its real weak spot is traveling: Windows, Android and the web would all rather meet an MP4.
WAV is audio with nothing taken away: every sample intact, every megabyte accounted for. Raw PCM samples in a RIFF wrapper. No compression of any kind. That makes it the right destination when what you need is recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters.
Drop your MOV file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: WAV is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new WAV.
Quality tip for MOV to WAV: 16-bit at 44.1 kHz is CD quality and what most editors expect; higher rates only help if the source actually carried them. The track inside your MOV sets the ceiling: an extraction can match it, never beat it.
| MOV | WAV | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1991, Apple's QuickTime team | 1991, Microsoft and IBM |
| Type | video · container | audio · uncompressed |
| Best for | shooting and editing on Apple hardware, where it's the native tongue | recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters |
| Weak spot | traveling: Windows, Android and the web would all rather meet an MP4 | being carried around: it refuses to shrink |
| Typical size | frequently huge: camera and ProRes MOVs can run to gigabytes per minute | about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3 |
| Plays on | Mac and iPhone natively; elsewhere it depends on the player's mood. | Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. |
The WAV is encoded once from the exact track inside the MOV: from a typical soundtrack the difference is inaudible, but it can't sound better than what the video carried.
Much smaller: you're keeping the audio and dropping the video, which is most of the weight. Expect about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3.
Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. That's the usual reason people leave MOV behind: WAV simply opens in more of the places that matter.
It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.