Introduction
Cleanvoice AI is an automated editor for spoken audio. You upload a podcast, voiceover or video. It removes filler words, stutters, long silences, background noise, mouth sounds and breaths, then hands you back a cleaner file or a timeline you can open in your own editor. It doesn't try to be a full audio workstation. It does cleanup, and it charges by the hour of audio processed.
scored.tools did not test Cleanvoice hands-on. This review is built from Cleanvoice's own pricing, feature and developer pages, plus the independent reviews cited in our scoring. Where a claim comes from the vendor, we say so. Our overall rating is 7/10.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Output quality | 5/10 | Mixed independent evidence; G2 has only four reviews |
| Ease of use | 9/10 | Free try without sign-up or card, upload-clean-export flow |
| Pricing value | 8/10 | Low published per-hour rates, all features on every plan |
| API and integration | 7/10 | Python and JavaScript SDKs plus REST; some no-code integrations still pending |
| Problem fit | 6/10 | Covers the cleanup job, but reviewers report missed fillers and wrong cuts |
Key Features
Filler word, stutter and silence removal
This is the main job. Cleanvoice detects ums, uhs, stutters, hesitations and dead air and cuts them out. The developer page says filler removal works in 20+ languages. If you record English with a regional accent, or in another language, check the results closely. A G2 reviewer reported problems with accents, and a PodPosted review says the tool misses some fillers and sometimes cuts words you wanted to keep.
Noise, mouth sound and breath removal
Cleanvoice strips background noise such as traffic, hum, fans and wind, along with mouth clicks and breaths. Per the developer docs, breaths can be removed outright or kept but made softer, which helps narrators who want a natural sound without loud inhales.
Studio Sound
Studio Sound is the audio enhancer, aimed at making a laptop or phone recording sound closer to a treated room. Cleanvoice currently promotes Studio Sound v4 on its developer page. The only quality evidence for it is the vendor's own samples and benchmark page, so treat it as a claim to check against your own recordings.
Multitrack editing and timeline export
You can upload separate tracks per speaker, and Cleanvoice can export a timeline to other editors instead of a flattened file. For anyone who edits in a DAW, this is the most practical feature on the list. You keep control of the final cut and can restore any word the AI removed by mistake, which matters given the reports of over-cutting.
Video podcast editing, transcription and summaries
Video files are supported, and the pricing page lists transcription and summary as included features on every plan.
API and SDKs
Developers get a REST API plus Python and JavaScript SDKs. The developer page lists import from Google Drive, Dropbox, FTP and RSS, says the service is EU-hosted, and claims ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance, with on-premise deployment available on request. The same page links a Make integration and still marks n8n as coming soon. Cleanvoice also says startups can apply for up to 200 free hours of API credit.
Pricing Breakdown
Every plan includes every feature. Plans differ only in how many hours of audio you can process. Prices on the pricing page are listed without VAT, and the site also shows a euro price list.
| Plan | Price | Hours | Per hour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | $0 | 30 minutes | n/a | No credit card required |
| Pay as You Go | $11 | 5 | $2.20 | Credits valid for 2 years |
| Pay as You Go | $20 | 10 | $2.00 | Credits valid for 2 years |
| Pay as You Go | $45 | 30 | $1.50 | Credits valid for 2 years |
| Subscription | $11/mo | 10 | $1.10 | Rollover up to 3x plan limit |
| Subscription | $28/mo | 30 | $0.93 | Rollover up to 3x plan limit |
| Subscription | $90/mo | 100 | $0.90 | Rollover up to 3x plan limit |
| Custom | From $0.01/minute | 200+ per month | From $0.60 | Custom API endpoints, priority support |
The maths is simple. At $11 you get 10 hours on a subscription or 5 hours as one-off credits, so a monthly show with a weekly hour-long episode fits the bottom subscription tier comfortably. Pay as You Go only makes sense if you publish irregularly, since the 2-year credit life protects you from losing hours you don't use.
The rollover rule on subscriptions is generous. Unused hours carry forward up to three times your plan limit, so a quiet month doesn't waste your money.
Heavy producers should watch the total. Every hour you upload costs credit, including re-runs after you change settings. Above 200 hours a month you have to talk to sales, and the $0.01/minute figure is a starting point, not a quote.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- All features on every plan, so you never pay more just to get a feature.
- Low published rates, from $1.10 down to $0.90 per hour on subscriptions.
- Timeline export lets you check and adjust every cut in your own editor.
- Real developer tooling: REST, Python and JavaScript SDKs, cloud storage imports and EU hosting.
- You can try it with no sign-up and no card.
Cons
- The free trial is capped at 30 minutes, enough for one short episode.
- Independent evidence on output quality is thin and mixed. G2 has only four reviews, and a 2021 podcast test found the edits got harder with speakers who talk at different speeds.
- Reviewers report missed fillers, unwanted cuts and accent problems.
- The 40,000+ creators figure and the testimonials on the site are vendor claims, not verified.
- Usage pricing adds up at volume, and anything past 200 hours a month goes through sales.
- No-code automation is incomplete, with n8n still listed as coming soon.
Who Is It For
Cleanvoice fits a solo podcaster or small show that records conversational audio and wants a first-pass cleanup without opening a manual editor. Voiceover artists and audiobook narrators who spend time removing breaths by hand are the other obvious users. Breath softening and timeline export map straight onto that work.
Developers building a recording or publishing product are a strong match too. A per-minute API with SDKs and EU hosting is easier to wire into a pipeline than a desktop app.
Look elsewhere if you need text-based editing of the whole episode. Descript edits audio by editing the transcript, which is a different workflow from fire-and-forget cleanup. If your main need is loudness and levelling for broadcast, Auphonic focuses on that job. Adobe Podcast covers voice enhancement inside Adobe's tools, and Krisp removes noise live during calls rather than after recording. We have no scores for these competitors, so compare them on your own files.
Verdict
Cleanvoice does one job, automated cleanup of spoken audio, and prices it fairly: every feature on every plan, published rates from $0.90 to $2.20 per hour, and credits that don't expire quickly. Ease of use and pricing are its strongest scores. Output quality is the weak point in the evidence, with independent reviews flagging missed fillers, over-cutting and trouble with accents.
Our recommendation: if you edit podcasts or voiceovers and filler, breath and noise removal is eating your hours, run your worst recording through the free 30 minutes. If the cuts hold up, the $11 subscription for 10 hours is cheap enough to adopt right away, and timeline export means you can still fix what it gets wrong. If your speakers have strong accents or very different speaking speeds, check every cut before you publish, and don't commit to a larger plan until the trial output convinces you.
