Alitu vs Cleanvoice Comparison 2026
Alitu is a full production line for a podcast: it levels the audio, lets you cut a transcript instead of a waveform, builds the episode and hosts it, for $38 a month. Cleanvoice does one automatic edit, filler words, mouth sounds, breaths and dead air removed, then hands back a timeline for whatever editor you already use, billed by the hour from $11 a month for ten hours. Alitu wants to be the only tool in the workflow. Cleanvoice wants to be a fast, narrow step inside a workflow you already have.
At a glance
- Cleanvoice starts cheaper, at $11.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Alitu | Cleanvoice | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Alitu
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
- Covers transcription & show notes
Cleanvoice
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.
Why people weigh these two
- Cleanvoice instead of Alitu
- Cleanvoice focuses only on stripping filler words and mouth sounds from $11 a month, leaving the leveling, music and publishing steps to something else.
- Alitu instead of Cleanvoice
- Alitu covers the same cleanup and keeps going until the raw recording is a finished episode; it costs more at $38 to start, with a free trial and no free tier.
Which one should you pick
Pick Alitu when you do not want to own an editor at all: recording, automatic cleanup, a repeatable episode structure and hosting for up to 1,000 downloads a month, all for $38 a month or $32 paid annually. It is the simpler choice for somebody starting a show from nothing.
Pick Cleanvoice when you already edit somewhere and just want the filler words, breaths and dead air gone before you get there. The subscription is $11 a month for ten hours, and unused credits roll over up to three times the plan limit, which suits a show that varies month to month. It hands back a timeline rather than a finished, hosted episode, so something else still has to publish it.
Common questions
- Do Alitu and Cleanvoice remove filler words the same way?
- Not quite. Cleanvoice specifically detects and removes filler words, mouth sounds, breaths and dead air, automatically, on both audio and video. Alitu's editing is text-based, so you cut the transcript yourself and the audio follows; its automatic cleanup covers levelling and noise, not filler-word detection.
- Which one is cheaper for an occasional show?
- Cleanvoice, if the show does not publish every week. Pay as you go starts at $11 for five hours of processing, with credits valid for two years, so an infrequent show is not paying for idle months. Alitu is a flat $38 a month whether an episode ships or not.
- Does Cleanvoice host or publish episodes?
- No. It processes a recording and returns a timeline export for your own editor, with nothing about hosting or distribution. Alitu includes hosting for up to 1,000 downloads a month and publishes to the directories you already use, inside its $38-a-month plan.
- Can Cleanvoice handle video podcasts?
- Yes, the same filler-word, mouth-sound and silence removal runs on video as well as audio. Alitu is built around audio production, recording, cleanup, episode building and hosting, with no video editing in its feature list.
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