Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Both cover audio & podcasting. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Alitu | Cleanvoice | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $38 | From $11 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Turns a raw recording into a finished episode
Alitu is podcast production for people who do not want to learn an audio editor. Drop a recording in and it levels the sound, adds the music you picked once, joins the segments and publishes to the hosts you already use. The editing it offers is text-based rather than waveform-based, which is the part that saves the hours. What it will not do is give you fine control over a mix, and that trade is the whole product.
Our note
The trade here is real and worth stating plainly: you are buying back the evenings and giving up fine control of the mix. If you already know a digital audio workstation, this is not for you.
Only on this side
Filler words and mouth sounds removed
Cleanvoice takes a finished recording and strips out the parts nobody wants to hear: filler words, mouth sounds, breaths and dead air. It handles video podcasts as well as audio and hands back a timeline export you can drop into whatever you edit in. Billing counts hours of audio processed rather than seats, so an occasional show is cheap to run. Credits bought outright stay valid for two years.
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| Covers | Audio & Podcasting, Transcription & Show Notes | Audio & Podcasting |
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| Works with | Podcast | Podcast |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
Buying by the hour rather than by the seat is the right shape for a fortnightly show, and it is why this beats a general editor's subscription for that use. Descript is the better buy if you want to edit the words as well as clean them.