Audo

AI noise removal for podcasts, calls, and dev pipelines via API

Video & Audio Freemium Has API
Researched · Published · Reviewed
RECATOOLS Score
6.3 / 10
Capability
6
Value for money
7
Ease of use
8
ASEAN readiness
6
API quality
5
Founded
2021
HQ
Bengaluru, India
Users
Launched
Developer

Overview

Audo strips background noise, echo, and mouth clicks from recordings through a web studio, a batch/streaming API, and the open-source Magic Mic app — aimed at podcasters, remote teams, and developers building noise cancellation into their own products.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Starter
$0
Free tier for occasional cleanup
  • 20 minutes of audio enhancement/mo
Pay As You Go
$20 one-time
One-off top-up block
  • 600 additional minutes, no subscription
API Standard
$0.05/min
Developer batch/streaming API
  • 200 free minutes/mo
  • Priority support
API Custom
Custom
Volume or enterprise API deployment
  • Volume discounts
  • Dedicated processing clusters
  • On-premise deployment

Use cases

Podcast cleanup Voice recording Audio restoration

What you can produce with Audo

  • One-click browser noise and echo removal
  • Batch noise-removal API
  • Streaming noise-removal SDK (real-time)
  • Open-source Magic Mic app for meetings
  • Python client library
  • Admin dashboard for usage and account management
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ASEAN Perspective

Audo in Southeast Asia

ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).

RECATOOLS Verdict

Audo does one job — stripping background noise, echo, and mouth clicks out of recordings — and offers it two ways: a one-click browser tool (Audo Studio) for podcasters and YouTubers, and a proper batch/streaming API for developers who want noise cancellation inside their own product. The open-source Magic Mic app and Python client libraries on GitHub are a nice touch for anyone who wants to see how the pipeline works rather than trust a black box.

The free tier is thin at 20 minutes a month, and Creator at $12/month for 600 minutes suits a solo creator more than a studio. The API's $0.05-per-minute pricing is simple but scales linearly with no obvious cheaper knee until you're big enough for the custom/volume tier. It is a narrow tool, not a full audio suite — good for quick cleanup, not for surgical restoration work.

Independent AI-assisted assessment by RECATOOLS.

What people say

Audo is a smaller player than its category placement suggests, and the review record reflects that: there's no G2 listing, and Capterra shows zero submitted reviews for Audo Studio as of mid-2026, despite the product having been around since roughly 2020 (the company is based in Kansas City). What third-party sentiment exists comes from scattered aggregator write-ups and comparison posts rather than a deep review corpus, so treat any individual quote as anecdotal rather than statistically meaningful.

That said, the anecdotal feedback that does exist is specific and positive. One user cited in a 2026 tools roundup credited Audo Studio with removing "the music from the neighbors, the barking of the dogs and the squawking of my parrot" from a home recording setup, and called it better in their own use than Adobe's newer Podcast AI enhancement tool — a notable comparison given Adobe's speech-enhancement feature is free and heavily marketed.

Where Audo differentiates itself from browser-only competitors like Adobe Podcast or Auphonic is the developer side: a batch API for post-production pipelines, a streaming SDK pitched at real-time communication apps, and — unusually for this category — an open-source desktop app (Magic Mic, built in C++) for killing background noise in video calls, plus Python client libraries on GitHub. That gives Audo a foothold with developers building noise cancellation into their own products, not just end users cleaning up a single recording.

The practical friction points are pricing-related rather than quality-related: the free tier's 20-minute monthly cap is restrictive even for occasional use, the Creator plan's 600 minutes works for one show but not a small studio's output, and the API's flat $0.05/minute has no visible discount tier until a buyer is large enough to negotiate the custom plan. For straightforward speech cleanup at moderate volume it does the job reliably; for anything approaching professional audio restoration, reviewers elsewhere in the category still point to dedicated tools like iZotope RX.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.

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