Aaven — News & Audio vs Cleanvoice AI: Which Is Better in 2026?

Aaven is an iPhone app that turns the news topics you pick into a natural-voice spoken briefing. Instead of scrolling through feeds and squinting at headlines, you press play and listen — on a commute, on a walk, while making dinner or doing chores.

How it works: you pick the topics you care about once — Top Stories, Technology, Business, World, Science, Health, Sports and more — and the news sources you want. Aaven fetches the latest headlines, summarizes them and reads them aloud in a natural voice, one story after another, like a short radio briefing that follows you around. If a story catches your attention, tap it to open the original article. Reading speed is adjustable in Settings, and a built-in sleep timer stops playback automatically if you like to listen at bedtime.

Every day also brings a few short extras alongside the news: Wikipedia's "On This Day", Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Day" and A.Word.A.Day.

Free tier: daily curated top stories and the daily extras, read aloud in a natural voice. No account is required — there is no sign-up step at all.

Aaven Plus (an optional monthly or yearly subscription) adds unlimited sources and categories so you can build your own briefing, a higher-quality neural voice, offline listening through caching, and playback customization.

Because the news and narration are in English, Aaven also works as real-world English listening practice: the content is genuinely current news rather than a scripted textbook dialogue, and you can slow the pace down while you get used to it.

Aaven is built by a solo developer and is available on the App Store for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aaven-news-audio/id6804346714

What problem it solves

Keeping up with the news usually means scrolling feeds and reading small text on a phone screen — hard to do while commuting, walking, cooking or doing chores, and tiring for anyone who would rather not stare at a screen. Aaven reads the news you pick aloud, so you can keep up hands-free and eyes-free.

Cleanvoice is an AI audio (and video) editing tool that automatically cleans up recordings — removing filler words, background noise, stutters and dead air, then enhancing what's left to studio quality. Built for podcasters and creators, it turns the tedious, hours-long job of manual audio editing into a few clicks. It's used by 15,000+ podcasters and 30+ brands.

What is Cleanvoice?

Cleanvoice takes a raw recording and does the cleanup work automatically: it identifies and strips out "um"s and "uh"s, ambient noise, mouth and breath sounds, stutters and long pauses, and enhances the audio to sound professionally produced. It handles multiple speaker tracks in sync, works on audio and video, and can also generate transcripts and show notes.

Who it's for

Cleanvoice serves podcasters, media agencies, content creators, audio engineers, video editors, audiobook narrators and voiceover professionals. Anyone who records spoken audio and would rather not spend hours manually snipping filler words and cleaning noise is a natural user — from solo podcasters to agencies producing at volume.

Key features

• Filler-word removal ("um," "uh," and similar)
• Background noise, mouth-sound and breath removal
• Audio enhancement to "studio sound" quality
• Multitrack editing that keeps speakers in sync
• Dead-air and stutter removal
• Transcription and show-notes summarization
• Timeline export to Adobe Audition, DaVinci Resolve, REAPER and Audacity
• Developer SDK (Python, JavaScript, REST API) and Make/Zapier support

Hours of editing, done in clicks

Cleanvoice's core value is time. Editing out every filler word, awkward pause and background noise by hand can take longer than the recording itself; Cleanvoice does it automatically in a fraction of the time. For a weekly podcaster or an agency with many episodes, that reclaimed editing time — with results that sound professionally produced — is the whole point.

Works with your existing tools

Rather than locking you into its own editor, Cleanvoice can export an editable timeline compatible with professional tools like Adobe Audition, DaVinci Resolve, REAPER, Audacity and Ultraschall. That means you can let the AI do the tedious cleanup and still keep full manual control in the editor you already know — a big advantage for audio engineers who don't want to abandon their workflow.

More than cleanup

Cleanvoice does more than remove noise. It generates transcripts and show notes, works on video as well as audio, and doesn't require a transcript to operate. For developers, a public API, playground and SDKs (Python, JavaScript, REST) plus Make/Zapier support mean the cleanup can be built into automated pipelines — useful for platforms processing lots of user-generated audio.

Private and compliant

Because recordings can be sensitive, Cleanvoice emphasizes data protection: it's GDPR compliant with EU data storage and ISO 27001 certified. Combined with a free tier (clean 30 minutes with no credit card), that makes it easy to try and safe to adopt, even for agencies and brands with stricter data requirements.

Consistent results across every episode

A recurring problem with manual editing is inconsistency — one episode sounds great, the next is uneven depending on who edited it and how tired they were. Because Cleanvoice applies the same AI cleanup every time, results stay consistent across a whole series, which matters for a podcast's professional identity. Multitrack handling keeps every speaker aligned even in multi-guest recordings, so complex episodes come out as clean as simple ones.

Why choose Cleanvoice

For podcasters, creators and audio professionals who want clean, studio-quality recordings without hours of manual editing, Cleanvoice is a genuinely useful tool. Its automatic filler, noise and pause removal, multitrack handling, editor-compatible exports and developer API — backed by solid privacy credentials — make it a practical way to sound professional while getting your time back.