Acapela review (2026): is it worth paying for?
Text-to-speech voices, SDKs and a cloud API in 30+ languages
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Acapela report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for voices and SDKs in 30+ languages
Acapela sells voices in 30+ languages through SDKs, a cloud API and a few consumer apps. Most of its pricing is quoted per project.
Who Acapela is for
- Fits if you need a voice for a screen reader or an Android phone
- Works for a company that wants SDKs across several platforms
Who Acapela is not for
- Skip it if you want a price for the cloud, SDK or custom voices, as they are quoted per project
- Not for you if you want a free plan, as none is listed
- Watch out: the NVDA price is a range of €59 to €99, and the page does not say whether it is per voice
- Watch out: a My-Own-Voice voice must be purchased to use outside the website
- Watch out: prices on its pages are in euros
Why Acapela gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for money€3.99 a voice on Google Play and €59 to €99 for NVDA voices, both one-time and under a year of the category's middle. The cloud, SDK and custom prices are quoted.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial are listed. A My-Own-Voice voice is free to create and test, but costs money to use outside the website.
- BFeaturesSDKs, a cloud API and studio, 30+ languages, My-Own-Voice banking, custom brand voices and screen-reader voices.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record, and the larger products come through sales.
- APlatforms and integrationsWeb, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, with NVDA, SAPI and a cloud API.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Acapela's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Acapela's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 47 of the 72 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 16.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 70 of 72) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 73 AI voice generators we grade, cut by the letter each got. Acapela’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 53 of 72, level with 14
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 72, level with 11
- BFeaturesAbove 44 of 72, level with 27
- CEase of useAbove 10 of 72, level with 52
- APlatforms and integrationsAbove 70 of 72, level with 2
Keep Acapela, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Acapela you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
What you could not
- A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make.
- A voice model trained on your recordings.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It plugs into other products, NVDA, Google Play and SAPI among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Acapela’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Acapela?
Acapela Group makes text-to-speech voices that run through SDKs for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, through a cloud API and online studio, and as add-on voices for screen readers and Android. It also builds branded voices and a My-Own-Voice service for people who want a synthetic copy of their own voice. Most products are quoted to businesses.
Worth knowing
- Cloud, SDK and voice-creation pricing is quoted per project, not published.
- The NVDA price range is stated without saying whether it is per voice or one-time.
- A My-Own-Voice voice is free to create and test but is purchased to use outside the website.
- Prices read on its pages are in euros; the NVDA and Google Play prices were not shown in dollars.
Key features
- Cross-platform SDKs
- SDKs for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS and Android, plus Windows Server, Linux Server and embedded Linux editions.
- Acapela Cloud API and studio
- A streaming API and a web editor for producing audio prompts, with over 100 neural, premium and standard voices.
- Large language range
- The company says it speaks over 30 languages, with children's voices and short expressive sounds called Voice Smileys.
- My-Own-Voice banking
- Record 50 sentences in the browser to build a synthetic copy of your voice; free to create, paid when used in an application.
- Branded custom voices
- Acapela builds personalized voices for services, apps and devices, used for example in transport announcements.
- Screen reader and Android voices
- End-user voices are sold for the NVDA screen reader and as in-app purchases in an Android app on Google Play.
Acapela pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Acapela is a paid product, starting at €3.99 per voice, in-app purchase on Google Play.
- Starts at
- €3.99 per voice, in-app purchase on Google Play
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Voices for Google Play | €3.99per voice, one in-app purchase | Individual voices for an Android device: 50 voices in 26 languages. |
| Voices for NVDA | €59price range €59 to €99, basis not stated | Add-on voices for the NVDA screen reader: 130+ voices in over 32 languages, priced by voice. |
| Cloud, SDK and custom voices | Custom | Acapela Cloud, platform SDKs, voice branding and My-Own-Voice purchases are quoted per project. |
Read from acapela-group.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Acapela before you buy.
Works with
- NVDA
- Google Play
- SAPI
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Common questions
Is Acapela open source?
Acapela is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Acapela have an API?
Yes. Acapela offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.