Auphonic review: Automatic audio post-production web service for podcasts, video and audiobooks

What Auphonic does

Runs uploaded audio or video through automatic cleanup: noise reduction, level balancing, filler-word cutting and loudness targets, then can publish the result.

Auphonic is a web service that takes a finished recording and runs it through automatic post-production. You upload audio or video, pick the algorithms to apply, and get a processed file back. Processing covers noise and reverb reduction, level balancing between speakers, music and speech, removal of sibilance and plosives, and repair of clipping or codec artifacts. It can also cut filler words, coughs and silent segments, and merge several tracks into one mixdown with ducking, a noise gate and mic bleed removal.

Loudness targets such as target loudness and true peak limit can be set so output matches platform or broadcaster requirements. Speech recognition, shownotes and chapters are offered, and finished files can be published automatically to services like YouTube and Libsyn. Watch folders, Zapier, an API and a command line interface support automated workflows.

Pricing is credit-based. The free plan gives 2 hours of processed audio per month, and free productions carry a jingle. Paid options are recurring monthly plans named S, M, L, XL and XXL, with 9, 21, 45, 100 and 250 hours per month, plus one-time credits that never expire. The pricing page also has a yearly option with a stated 20% saving. Pricing not published on the official site in the text available to this card: the pricing page lists plan names and hour allowances, but no amounts were captured, so check the live pricing page for prices and currency. Billing follows the duration of audio sent for processing, with a 3 minute minimum per production.

• Noise and reverb reduction
• Adaptive leveling across speakers and music
• Filler word, cough and silence cutting
• Multitrack mixdown with ducking
• Loudness target settings
• Multilingual speech-to-text with shownotes
• Automatic publishing to YouTube and Libsyn
• API, CLI, Zapier and watch folders

Our take

Auphonic fits people who produce spoken-word content regularly and want cleanup, loudness compliance and publishing handled by software rather than manual editing: podcasters, educators, video creators and audiobook producers. The free monthly allowance lets you check the output before paying, though free productions carry a jingle and some automation features need a paid plan. Unused monthly credits do not roll over, so uneven workloads may suit one-time credits better. Price amounts were not captured here, so confirm them on the live pricing page before deciding.