Free Applause Sound Effect
An enthusiastic room clapping and cheering. Instant audience for anything.
Updated · Tested by the Facecam team
Applause
4.0 s · MP3 · 40 KB
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5 applause sound effects to download
Main take4.0 s · 40 KB
An enthusiastic room clapping and cheering. Instant audience for anything.
Small group2.7 s · 27 KB
Five people clapping politely, for a modest win.
Slow clap3.4 s · 34 KB
One person slowly clapping alone: sarcastic, or the start of something.
Stadium5.5 s · 54 KB
A whole arena roaring and clapping for the big finish.
Golf clap3.0 s · 30 KB
Soft, quiet outdoor applause for a well-placed shot.
Where it fits
- A launch, a promotion or a birthday in a team call.
- The end of a stream goal or a long run.
- Sarcastic applause for finally unmuting.
How we made it
“An audience applauding and cheering enthusiastically, medium sized room”
The variations
- Small group
- “A small group of five people clapping politely in a quiet room”
- Slow clap
- “One person slow clapping alone in an empty room, sarcastic”
- Stadium
- “A huge stadium crowd cheering and applauding wildly, with whistles and a roar that keeps building”
- Golf clap
- “Soft quiet polite golf clap applause from a small crowd outdoors”
- Loudness
- -16.5 LUFS
- Peak
- -1.8 dBFS
On these boards
Play it in Discord, OBS or Zoom
Press Use these sounds in calls, then pick Facecam Virtual Mic as your mic. Step by step: Discord, OBS and Zoom. For games, the Facecam desktop app.
- Short enough for Discord's own soundboard (5.2 s max): Server Settings → Soundboard.
More about this sound
About our version
Four seconds of a medium-sized room, with cheers on top of the clapping. It fades out instead of stopping, so you can stop it early with Esc.
Where canned applause comes from
Studio television in the 1950s had a problem: live audiences didn't laugh or clap on cue. Sound engineer Charley Douglass built a machine, nicknamed the laff box, that played recorded laughter and applause on demand, and sitcoms used it for decades. Studio audiences got the APPLAUSE sign. Playing applause from a soundboard is the same trick, and in a call it carries the same joke: everyone knows it's fake.
Which take for which moment
The main take is a warm room for real congratulations. Small group is five people being polite, which suits a modest win or a nice try. Slow clap is one person alone and works both ways: sarcastic on its own, or the start of a big moment if you follow it with the stadium take. Golf clap is soft outdoor applause, the quiet acknowledgement of a well-placed shot, and the driest joke of the five.
Questions
Can I make the applause longer?
Press the pad again as it ends, or make a longer clip with the AI Sound Effect Generator (up to 10 seconds).
What does a golf clap mean?
Quiet, polite clapping, the kind golf crowds give so they don't disturb the next player. Used on purpose elsewhere, it's mild praise or gentle sarcasm. Our Golf clap take is the soft outdoor version.
Related
Further reading: Applause on Wikipedia