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AI tools for sound effects, audio editing, mastering, noise removal and restoration. Every tool below is measured against the same criteria, in the same order. Note that this field moves fast, so treat every value as a snapshot and check it against the vendor before you rely on it.

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  • Async

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    Chat-based AI studio for recording, cleaning up and editing podcasts and video, formerly Podcastle.

    Strengths

    • Records, cleans up, edits and publishes in one browser tool
    • Editing by chat instruction rather than by timeline
    • Turns one recording into clips, captions and a transcript
    • Free plan available, and a developer voice API alongside the studio

    Limitations

    • Prices are not readable on the public pricing page, so the cost of a plan has to be checked in the app
    • Metered in AI credits, so heavy months cost more regardless of seat count
    • Free plan's AI credits and transcription are lifetime allowances, not monthly ones
    • The vendor cautions that AI edits need reviewing
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  • iZotope RX

    Price Elements ~$99

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    The professional standard for AI audio repair and restoration, with surgical spectral editing.

    Strengths

    • Broadcast-grade restoration
    • Surgical spectral control
    • The professional standard for damaged audio

    Limitations

    • Expensive, especially Advanced
    • Steeper learning curve
    • Desktop software, not one-tap
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  • iZotope Ozone

    Price Elements $55

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    Mastering suite whose AI assistant builds a starting chain from your track, then hands you twenty modules to edit it.

    Strengths

    • Master Assistant builds a chain from the audio and leaves every step editable
    • Twenty mastering modules in Advanced, usable inside Ozone or as individual plugins
    • Genre targets, LUFS loudness targets and Codec Preview for checking streaming delivery

    Limitations

    • Advanced at $499 is a professional-level price
    • Elements gives the assistant but no access to the individual modules
    • Desktop plugin for a DAW, not a browser service
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  • AudioShake

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    AI audio separation for studios and labels, pulling stems, dialogue and individual speakers out of a finished mix.

    Strengths

    • Separation covers music stems, dialogue and effects, and overlapping speakers
    • REST API and SDK, including real-time processing
    • High-resolution output up to 192 kHz across six audio formats

    Limitations

    • No published prices for the professional tier
    • Aimed at studios, labels and developers rather than casual use
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  • ElevenLabs

    MCP-ready

    Price Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month

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    The leading AI voice platform for realistic narration, voice cloning and dubbing.

    Strengths

    • Most realistic voice and cloning
    • 70+ languages on the v3 models
    • Speech-to-speech and dubbing
    • Strong API

    Limitations

    • Commercial use only from the paid Starter tier
    • API pricey at high volume
    • Credits are shared across every product and roll over for at most two months
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  • Moises

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    AI musician's app that splits any song into stems and reads back its key, chords and tempo.

    Strengths

    • Stem separation across vocals, drums, bass and other instruments
    • Key and chord detection, transposition and a pitch-preserving metronome on the same track
    • Runs in the browser, on desktop and on iOS and Android

    Limitations

    • Full pricing table only visible after signing in
    • Free tier limits monthly uploads and features
    • Built for practice and rehearsal, not audio repair or restoration
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  • Supertone Clear

    Price $99 one-time

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    Real-time plugin that pulls voice, ambience and reverb apart with three knobs.

    Strengths

    • Real-time, so it works live as well as in post
    • Perpetual licence rather than a subscription
    • Three controls, with little to learn

    Limitations

    • Dialogue cleanup only, no editing or mastering
    • No ongoing free tier, the trial inserts noise every 60 seconds
    • A plugin, so it needs a DAW or another host
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  • LALAL.AI

    Price Free tier; Lite from $7.50 / month

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    AI stem separation that extracts vocals and instruments from a mixed track.

    Strengths

    • Extracts ten stem types, including lead against backing vocals
    • Runs in the browser, on desktop, on mobile and as a VST plugin
    • One-off minute packs, so no subscription is required

    Limitations

    • Covers separation and cleanup only, with no mixing or mastering
    • Quality varies with the source mix
    • Fast queue minutes are capped per month; the unlimited queue is the slow one
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  • Descript

    MCP-ready

    Price Free tier; paid plans from $16 / month

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    AI audio and video editor: edit a recording by editing its transcript, with one-tap noise removal.

    Strengths

    • Edit audio and video by editing the transcript
    • Studio Sound cleanup and automatic filler-word removal
    • Voice cloning (Overdub) and stock AI voices built in

    Limitations

    • Free tier is limited to 60 minutes of media per month
    • AI features run on a monthly credit allowance
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  • Riverside

    Price Free tier; Pro from $24 / month

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    Remote studio for recording high-quality audio and video, with AI editing, transcription and noise removal.

    Strengths

    • Records each guest locally for high-quality audio and video
    • AI editor, transcription and Magic Audio noise removal built in
    • Up to 4K video and 48 kHz audio on paid tiers

    Limitations

    • Free tier includes only a one-time 2 hours of multitrack recording
    • API access only on the Business tier
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  • eMastered

    Price From $156 / year

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    Online AI mastering built by Grammy-winning engineers, with stem separation and distribution.

    Strengths

    • Unlimited mastering, stem separation and distribution on one subscription
    • Reference mastering against a track you choose
    • A 20-second preview plays before any payment

    Limitations

    • No ongoing free tier, a download needs a subscription
    • Masters a finished stereo mix only, not stems or tracked-out files
    • The no-commitment rate is more than double the annual one
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  • Stable Audio

    Price Free tier; Pro ~$12 / month

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    Stability AI's model for instrumental music and sound effects from text prompts, trained on licensed data.

    Strengths

    • Licensed training data for a cleaner commercial-use story
    • Strong for instrumental beds, ambient and sound design
    • Audio-to-audio and style transfer

    Limitations

    • No vocal or lyric generation
    • Free tier is very limited
    • High-revenue organisations need an enterprise license
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  • Auphonic

    Price Free 2 hours / month; credit plans from ~$11 / month

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    Automated audio post-production with loudness normalization, leveling and cleanup, plus batch and API workflows.

    Strengths

    • Full automated mastering pipeline
    • Batch, API and watch-folder workflows
    • Strong free tier

    Limitations

    • Automated, with less surgical control than iZotope RX
    • Credit-based cost adds up at volume
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  • LANDR

    Price From $11.99 / month

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    AI music mastering that delivers a quick automated master, plus distribution.

    Strengths

    • Fast automated music mastering
    • Also handles distribution
    • Good for indie musicians

    Limitations

    • An automated master is less controllable than a human engineer
    • Built for music, not for speech repair
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  • Wondercraft

    Price Free tier; Creator $25 / month

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    AI studio for business audio and video: podcasts, audio ads, training videos and explainers from structured workflows.

    Strengths

    • One studio for video, voice, images and music
    • Structured workflows make output repeatable for non-editors
    • Voice cloning and multi-language text to speech included
    • API generates podcasts, ads, meditations and audiobooks programmatically

    Limitations

    • Free plan watermarks output and caps export at 720p
    • Metered in credits, so cost follows volume rather than seats
    • Team collaboration starts at Pro and covers only three users
    • Structured workflows give less free-form control than a general editor
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  • Krisp

    Price From $8 / user / month

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    Real-time AI noise cancellation that strips background sound before it reaches your call or recording.

    Strengths

    • Real-time noise removal at the source
    • Works inside call and meeting apps
    • Prevents bad audio being captured in the first place

    Limitations

    • Aggressive real-time suppression can sound thin on very noisy input
    • Built for live use, not for deep post-repair
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  • Adobe Podcast

    Price Free plan

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    Free AI speech enhancement that removes noise and makes recordings sound studio-clean.

    Strengths

    • Excellent free speech enhancement
    • Browser-based, no install
    • One-tap simplicity

    Limitations

    • Tuned for speech, can thin out music
    • The free plan caps file length and daily processing
    • Browser only, with no desktop or plugin version
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  • sonible

    Price Free plug-in available; paid plug-ins from $39

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    Austrian maker of AI-assisted mixing and mastering plug-ins that analyse a track and set themselves up.

    Strengths

    • Analysis step proposes settings, which is a faster start than a flat processor
    • Perpetual licences rather than a subscription
    • A free plug-in and a cheaper pure series for one-control decisions
    • Native Apple Silicon support, in VST, VST3, AU and AAX

    Limitations

    • Priced per plug-in, so a full set adds up and the smart and pure tiers overlap
    • Mixing and mastering only, not repair of damaged recordings
    • Desktop plug-ins with no API or browser version
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  • Cleanvoice

    Price From $11 / month

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    AI podcast editor that removes filler words, background noise, mouth sounds and dead air automatically.

    Strengths

    • Removes filler words, noise and dead air automatically
    • Filler-word removal across 20+ languages
    • Transcripts and chaptered summaries included

    Limitations

    • No ongoing free tier beyond a 30-minute trial
    • Priced by audio hours, which adds up at volume
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  • SpectraLayers

    Price From $89.99 one-time

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    Steinberg's spectral audio editor, which unmixes a recording into layers and repairs them.

    Strengths

    • Every unmix and restoration module is in Pro, from song parts to crowd noise
    • Runs as an ARA plugin inside a DAW as well as standalone
    • Three editions, so the entry level is not the full price

    Limitations

    • A spectral, layer-based workflow to learn, not a one-tap cleanup
    • Go and Elements are held to 2 channels, 96 kHz and 8 undo levels
    • Desktop software rather than a service, so it runs over a file
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