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Use sound effects for games, lessons, events, presentations, performances, transitions, and more.
Free Online Soundboard Creator
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Create custom soundboards for learning, events, games, activities, presentations, performances, home use, and everyday projects. Upload your own sounds, search for sound effects, generate custom audio, edit waveforms, and organize everything into reusable boards.
Use sound effects for games, lessons, events, presentations, performances, transitions, and more.
Add your own audio files, search our sound database, or generate custom sounds for any purpose using AI.
Organize your sounds into custom boards that you can save, manage, and reuse anytime.
Yes. You can create and use online soundboards for free on ESL Tools. Free users can make saved custom soundboards, with extra limits and AI sound generation depending on the plan and available credits.
An online soundboard creator is a browser based tool that lets you add sounds to buttons, organize them into a grid, and play them instantly during lessons, games, activities, presentations, events, or personal use.
Yes. You can build your own custom soundboard by uploading sounds, searching for audio, generating sound effects, editing sounds, renaming buttons, changing the grid size, and saving your boards online.
No. ESL Tools Soundboard works in your browser, so you can create and play soundboards online without installing soundboard software.
Yes. You can upload your own audio files and add them to your custom soundboard. Uploaded sounds are saved to your account so you can use them again later.
Yes. When adding a new sound, you can search for audio and add a sound directly to your board without needing to upload your own file.
Yes. You can describe the sound effect you want, generate multiple AI sound options, preview them, and choose the one you want to add to your soundboard.
Yes. You can rename sounds, view the waveform, select parts of the audio, cut audio, undo and redo edits, and save the edited version back to your soundboard.
Yes. In edit mode, each sound has its own volume control, so you can make some sounds quieter or louder depending on how you use the board.
Yes. Sounds can use repeat mode, which is useful for background audio, ambience, music loops, classroom atmosphere, or repeated sound effects.
Yes. Retrigger mode lets a sound start again even if it is already playing, which is useful for quick effects, game sounds, reactions, and repeated audio cues.
Yes. The soundboard includes a stop-all button so you can quickly stop every sound that is currently playing.
Yes. You can create and manage multiple soundboards, rename them, reorder them, and switch between them from your account.
Yes. You can change the grid size to make a smaller or larger soundboard, such as a simple board with only a few buttons or a larger board with more sounds.
Yes. In edit mode, you can drag and reorder sound buttons so your most important sounds are easy to reach.
You can try the soundboard without an account, but you need to log in to create, customize, save, and manage your own soundboards.
Yes. When you are logged in, your soundboards, button names, uploaded sounds, grid size, volume settings, repeat settings, and sound order can be saved to your account.
Yes. The soundboard is designed to work in the browser on computers, tablets, and phones. On mobile, tapping the page may be needed first so the browser allows audio playback.
Yes. You can create boards with footsteps, doors, weather, animals, magic sounds, music cues, scene changes, and dramatic effects for stories, plays, drama classes, and role plays.