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Royalty-Free Wood Sound Effects
100k+ free sound effects, growing every day. Wood sound effects: wood creaking and splintering, planks snapping, furniture dragging, wooden chairs scraping, knocks on walls and tables, a judge's gavel, a rocking chair, attic floorboards creaking overhead, a block tower collapsing and a coffin lid opening. Use them for haunted-house and horror scenes, courtroom and home settings, and satisfying breaks. For doors themselves, see doors; for branches outdoors, try leaves & branches. Free MP3 & WAV for commercial use. No account or credit needed.
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Make a wood sound with AI
Name the object, the wood and the action: an old floorboard creaking under a slow step, a thin plank snapping over a knee, a heavy oak table dragged across stone.
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- Axe Chop into Wood
1.1s10.0axe, chop, wood
- Axe Chopping Wood Log
1:169.9axe, chop, wood
- Belt Slap and Twig Snap
1.2s9.9twig, snap, belt
- Boot Kicks on Wooden Crate
18.4s9.9wood crate, kick, boot
- Creaking Rocking Chair Sit and Stand
31.4s9.6chair, creak, squeak
- Crisp Plywood Splinter Crack
1.1s9.7wood, plywood, crack
- Deep Wooden Structure Creak and Groan
2.9s10.0wood, creak, groan
- Fist Pounding Wooden Table
16.9s9.9wood, table, fist
- Heavy Wood Creak and Groan
6.1s10.0wood, creak, groan
- Long Wood Stress Creaks and Splinters
38.2s9.4wood, creak, groan
- Loose Wood Rattle and Knocking
15.8s10.0wood, rattle, knocking
- Lumber Dropped on Carpet
5.0s9.9wood, lumber, drop
- Plywood Cutout Falling Over
11.4s9.9plywood, wood, fall
- Short Floorboard Creak
1.3s10.0floorboard, creak, squeak
- Short Rough Wood Drag on Floor
1.2s10.0wood, drag, scrape
- Single Wooden Floorboard Creak
1.3s9.7floorboard, creak, squeak
- Violin Bridge Collapse Snap
2.5s9.6violin, bridge, snap
- Wood Blocks Drop and Clatter
1.4s10.0wood, blocks, drop
- Wood Prying and Splintering Destruction
57.4s9.7wood, splinter, crack
- Wooden Board Dragged Over Stone
1.3s10.0wood, board, scrape
- Wooden Board Drop and Bounce
2.0s10.0wood, board, drop
- Wooden Box Short Drag and Clunk
1.3s10.0wooden box, drag, scrape
- Wooden Chair Scrape on Floor
1.6s10.0chair, wood, scrape
- Wooden Desk Drawer and Lid Handling
35.4s9.6wood, desk, hinge
- Wooden Spear Impacts and Bounces
33.3s9.9spear, wood, impact
- Wooden Window Frame Shut
1.3s10.0window, wood, close
- Wooden Window Open and Slam
9.3s9.9window, wood, open
- Knock on Wood (Two Taps)
1.0s10.0knock, knock on wood, wooden table
How to use wood sound effects in a video
Keep creaks out of frame
Attic floor creaks overhead, slow knocks inside a wall and a long high creak work because the viewer cannot see what made them. Pan them away from center, keep them quiet, and in horror scenes leave silence after each one so the house seems to move by itself.
Break wood in two layers
A wooden break is a sharp snap followed by splinters and falling pieces. Put the snap on the frame the wood gives, then let the splintering and debris land a few frames later. For a satisfying break clip keep both close and dry; when furniture is smashed in a fight, add a heavy thud.
Match the drag to the floor
A chair dragged on tile is harsh and scratchy, and heavy furniture on wood is a low groan. Start the drag the moment the object moves and stop it when it stops. A short scrape is enough for a chair pushed back from a table as someone stands.
Wood sound effects: questions
Which wood sounds work for a haunted house?
The attic floor creaking above, slow knocks inside a wall, a rocking chair creaking on its own and a coffin lid opening. Keep them sparse and off screen. One creak followed by silence does more than a constant layer of them under the whole scene.
Is there a judge's gavel sound?
Yes, two versions of a gavel striking three times. Put the first bang on the frame the gavel hits the block. If the judge strikes only once, trim to a single bang and let its short room echo finish before the next line.
Where are door and outdoor branch sounds?
Doors, wooden ones included, are under doors, and leaves and branches outdoors are under leaves and branches, though a couple of branch snaps are here too. This page is mostly wood indoors: furniture, floors, knocks, breaks and small objects like a chopstick click or a clothespin.
License
Every sound effect in this library is free to download and use in personal and commercial projects: videos, ads (including paid ad campaigns), client work, podcasts, apps and games. No account, no credit, no royalties and no revenue cap. Sonilo does not register library sound effects with YouTube Content ID. A free download doesn’t come with a license certificate; on Pro and above you can get one for any sound effect here. Use the files inside your own projects, including templates and other products you sell, where the audio is part of a larger work. You may not sell, share or give away the files on their own, bundle them into sound, sample or music packs, or upload them to other stock or library sites.
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Sound effects FAQ
Can I use these downloads in commercial projects?
Yes. Every file is free to download and use in personal and commercial projects — monetized videos, ads (including paid ad campaigns), client work, apps, websites and games — under the library license on this page, with no credit needed. Sonilo does not register library sound effects with YouTube Content ID. A free download doesn’t include a license certificate; on Pro and above you can get one for any file here. Audio you generate in your account follows your plan’s terms instead.
Do I need an account to preview or download a sound?
You can listen and download MP3 or WAV files directly from this library without signing in. Creating new audio with the AI generator requires a Sonilo account.
What is the difference between MP3 and WAV?
MP3 is a compressed file that is convenient for quick previews and smaller projects. WAV is uncompressed and useful when you will edit, layer or process the sound. Both versions of a library sound use the same library license.
What if I cannot find the sound I need?
Describe the sound in the search box. If there are no matches, choose the AI generation option to bring that description into Sonilo’s sound effects generator. New accounts receive free credits; generation uses credits, and available exports and usage rights depend on your plan.
How is this different from a traditional sound library?
You can start with a ready-to-download sound or use your description to create a new one in the same product. Sonilo also offers video-to-sound-effects workflows, so you can move from finding a sound to making audio for a particular scene.
Can I share or embed a sound?
Each sound has a permanent detail-page link. Use Share to copy that link, or Embed to copy an HTML audio player with a link back to the sound. Your website editor must allow HTML audio; pasting a URL alone does not automatically embed it.
Can I make sound effects for an uploaded video or through an API?
Sonilo supports video-driven sound effects as well as text descriptions. Open the sound effects product page for the available workflows, or use the developer documentation for API integration. Account generation and API usage follow their own credit and licensing terms.
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