Gain Curve and Adobe Podcast Enhance, compared.
They do different jobs. Adobe describes Enhance Speech as an AI filter that removes noise and echo from voice recordings; it can do a lot for a rough recording. Gain Curve keeps the voice you recorded and evens it out, cleans it, cuts what you don't want and gets the episode ready to publish.
| Gain Curve | Adobe Podcast Enhance | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Levels the episode, matches voices, takes down noise, echo, clicks and pops, evens out the voice's tone, cuts ums and coughs, sets the loudness | Cleans up the voice with AI: noise and echo out |
| Where it runs | On your Mac | Online, in the browser |
| Control | A curve you can see and redraw; every fix has its own knob and can be turned off | Mostly automatic; a strength control on Premium |
| Length | Your Mac does the work: no upload limits | Free: up to 30 minutes and 500 MB a file, 1 hour a day. Premium: up to 4 hours a day, files up to 1 GB |
| Video | Yes | Premium only |
| Price | $29 once (until December 31, then $49) | Free tier; Premium comes with Adobe's Firefly Pro plan |
When Enhance is the better tool
A badly recorded voice: a laptop mic in an echoey kitchen, a phone call. An AI clean-up can rescue what ordinary cleaning can't.
When Gain Curve is the better tool
A decent recording that needs to sound even and finished: guests at different levels, a host who drifts off the mic, a room that rings a little, ums to cut, an episode that has to hit −16 LUFS with chapters and cover art. It keeps the voice natural, and you decide how far each fix goes.
They can work together: enhance a rough guest track, then level and finish the episode in Gain Curve.
Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Inc. Facts about Adobe Podcast from podcast.adobe.com as of October 28, 2026. Paul Voia-Tipei, PVT Studio