# Acapela review (2026): is it worth paying for? > Text-to-speech voices, SDKs and a cloud API in 30+ languages Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** Acapela Group - **Website:** https://www.acapela-group.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price for the cloud, SDK or custom voices, as they are quoted per project. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Acapela is a paid product, starting at €3.99 per voice, in-app purchase on Google Play. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Voices for Google Play | €3.99 per voice, one in-app purchase | Individual voices for an Android device: 50 voices in 26 languages. | | Voices for NVDA | €59 price 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 https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-tts-voices-for-google-play/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Acapela before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Companies embedding speech in apps, devices or transport systems - People who want a banked copy of their own voice for communication aids - Screen reader users wanting more natural voices on NVDA or Android ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Acapela sells voices in 30+ languages through SDKs, a cloud API and a few consumer apps. Most of its pricing is quoted per project. - **Value for money: B.** €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. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No 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. - **Features: B.** SDKs, a cloud API and studio, 30+ languages, My-Own-Voice banking, custom brand voices and screen-reader voices. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the larger products come through sales. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, with NVDA, SAPI and a cloud API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - 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). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, NVDA, Google Play and SAPI among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with NVDA, Google Play, SAPI **Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, Public API ## Alternatives - [ReadSpeaker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/readspeaker): Text-to-speech for websites, apps, schools and custom brand voices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acapela-vs-readspeaker) - [Cepstral](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cepstral): Desktop and phone-system text-to-speech voices and engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acapela-vs-cepstral) - [IBM Watson TTS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ibm-watson-tts): IBM's text-to-speech API with neural voices and custom voices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acapela-vs-ibm-watson-tts) - [NaturalReader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/naturalreader): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acapela-vs-naturalreader) - [Google Cloud Text-to-Speech](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-cloud-text-to-speech): Pay-per-character speech API with Gemini, Chirp and WaveNet voices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acapela-vs-google-cloud-text-to-speech) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.acapela-group.com/ - https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-tts-voice-for-nvda/ - https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-tts-voices-for-google-play/ - https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/my-own-voice/ - https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-cloud/ - https://www.acapela-cloud.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/acapela Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).