99 Sound Effects is a collection of free sound effects for music production, game development, cinematic trailers, movie scores, TV shows, creative sound design, YouTube, and more.
The free download link is located at the end of this article.
Free Sound Effects
99 Sound Effects is a premium-quality collection of royalty-free sound effects designed by Tomislav Zlatic.
The included sounds are suitable for use in trailers, film scores, game development, music production, podcasts, and other creative purposes. I carefully edited and mastered the sound effects to ensure they were completely production-ready.
You can drag and drop these free sounds into your project and use them instantly without additional processing. Of course, you can also use additional effects and processing to customize the sound to your liking.
The library includes a range of sound effects, from cinematic braams and drones designed for use in movies to modern cinematic impacts, complex sonic textures, and various purely digital noises that can be used in any audio or video project.
These free sound effects provide an exciting arsenal of modern cinematic-style SFX for use in your creative endeavors. The included earth-shattering subs and high-impact swooshes will bring any audio or video production to the next level.
99 Sound Effects also includes a set of retro-inspired sounds that will serve well as a sonic cure for your 80s nostalgia. These retro sound effects use analog synthesizers as the sound source, with various vintage and new outboard gear used for additional processing.
The download includes a free sound effects library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

All audio content is provided as lossless 24-bit WAV files. The audio files are neatly organized into categories with descriptive file names to help you quickly find that perfect sound effect.
We also have an article about what SFX is and how it can improve your video.
Using free Sound Effects for Movies and Video Games
Sound effects are crucial for creating an immersive experience in audio-visual projects, especially movies and video games. Sounds and sound effects add realism, emotions, and impact to a scene.
For example, impact sounds can highlight a dramatic part of a scene. Tension builders can draw the viewer’s attention and create a dramatic effect before a pivotal scene in a movie or a video game.
However, getting high-quality sound effects can be expensive, especially for creators and developers who are working on a tight budget.
That is why I created this collection of free sound effects that you can use in your projects at no cost. The sounds are also royalty-free.
Using free sound effects offers several advantages. Most importantly, it saves money, allowing the developers and movie producers to invest in other essential aspects of production.
99Sounds offers this one and many other free sound libraries to help creators and emerging artists showcase their skills. Feel free to explore our other releases like Cinematic Sound Effects and Water Sounds.
Summary
99 Sound Effects contains 99 audio files in 24-bit WAV format and one instrument patch in NKI format for Native Instruments Kontakt (full version of NI Kontakt required).
The download size is 263 MB (ZIP archive).
Content
- 99 sound effects
- 8 Braams
- 2 Downers
- 8 Drones
- 4 Impacts
- 5 Metal hits
- 4 Noises
- 4 Punches
- 9 Retro sound effects
- 4 Risers
- 12 Transient sound effects
- 4 Subs
- 9 Swish sound effects
- 10 Textures
- 6 Whoosh sound effects
- 24-bit WAV format
- 100% Royalty-free
- 263 MB download (ZIP archive)

88 Comments
Muchas gracias!!!
Thank you!
thanks
I’ve been a “customer” since the very first day and have always appreciated all the work from the great artists the share their work here at 99 Sounds. I hope my donations will help toward keeping this site alive forever and I encourage everyone to give something… anything, I’m sure every little bit helps and makes these developers WANT to keep sharing….
Thank you for your support! :) There’s another free library ready for release later today – World Sounds by Marcel Gnauk.
I’m wondering if you have any additional metadata that would make these sounds searchable in a software like Soundminer? Thanks!
Hmm, not really. To be honest, I’ve never used Soundminer but I’ll look into it. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for these :)
Can I use 99 Sound Effects commercially? I’m developing a mobile game.
Yes, absolutely!
Awesome thank you for the share, you are amazing!!
Thanks for the kind words! :)
I downloaded the rar file and the wav files and other files have no info and take up zero mb.
I downloaded the zip file and the zip file just contains the rar. file
please advise thanks
Greg
Hi Greg, sorry for the inconvenience. Did you download the sounds from here? https://99sounds.gumroad.com/l/sound-effects
Ive been hit with the same problem even though i downloaded from the gum road page
i cant preview the sounds before hand
Bless you ! You guys really help to boost some sound designers amateurs like me on the first steps ! Thank you 1000 times !
Thank you! :)