What they do well — and where it stops
Voicely speaks German — and that matters
Voicely speaks German natively, displays EUR netto pricing openly on its homepage without geo-detection, and markets aggressively to the German SMB segment.
But the legal entity is a Cyprus Limited (not a German GmbH), the website runs on Vercel-US, the LLM sits in Finland, prices are quoted netto, and the product is still officially in BETA. Sprecho is the German GmbH alternative with EU-only infrastructure and brutto pricing.
At a glance
| Sprecho | Voicely | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (monthly) | €12.99 brutto incl. VAT | €12 netto (~€14.28 brutto) |
| Free tier | Yes · 2,000 words/week | Yes |
| Platforms | Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS · Android | macOS · Windows |
| EU hosting | Hetzner Falkenstein, Germany | Partial |
| German-language UI | Yes — native | Yes — native |
| AVV / DPA | Yes, public template | On request only |
Pricing for B2B buyers — netto, like-for-like
Voicely invoices from Cyprus in EUR netto. As intra-EU B2B services, reverse-charge applies: no VAT on the invoice; the German buyer self-accounts in the UStVA return. Sprecho invoices come from Melo Designer GmbH in Germany — one VAT line directly deductible, no self-accounting.
Sprecho Pro
VAT included & deductibleMonthly billing
€10.92 / mo netto
(€12.99 brutto incl. 19 % VAT)
Yearly billing · 15 % cheaper
€9.24 / mo netto
(€10.99 brutto · €131.88 brutto/yr · €110.82 netto/yr)
Voicely Pro
Reverse-charge invoice (B2B)Monthly billing
€12 netto / mo
Cyprus Limited (RelationFlow Ltd.) · EU reverse-charge available for German B2B
Yearly billing · 15 % cheaper
€9 netto / mo (€108 / yr)
Cyprus Limited · still BETA on their homepage
Hidden costs
- Cyprus invoice — explain to procurement why a 'Made-in-Germany' product is invoiced from Cyprus
- Website on Vercel (US) — CLOUD Act exposure at the auth and account layer
- Nebius LLM in Finland — your AI request leaves Germany
- Voicely is still officially in BETA on its own homepage
Where your data actually lives
Named legal entities, named regions, named subprocessors. The single most concrete answer to: where does my audio go?
Sprecho
Melo Designer GmbH (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Hetzner Falkenstein / Nuremberg (Germany)
Voicely
RelationFlow Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus)
Supabase DB in Frankfurt — but vendor Supabase Inc. is a US company (CLOUD Act applies) · LLM on Nebius (Finland)
What each side built that the other didn't
Voicely is a real German-language product; the differences are mostly structural (legal entity + infrastructure) rather than feature deltas.
What Voicely built that Sprecho didn't
- EUR netto pricing displayed openly on the homepage without geo-detection — anyone sees the prices.
- Public BETA badge on their homepage — transparent acknowledgement that the product is not yet production-stable.
What Sprecho built that Voicely didn't
- German GmbH legal entity (Melo Designer GmbH) — Voicely is a Cyprus Limited (RelationFlow Ltd.) despite "Made in Germany" marketing.
- Self-hosted EU stack on Hetzner — Voicely's database runs on Supabase Frankfurt, but Supabase Inc. is a US company subject to the CLOUD Act regardless of the data-centre location; same Schrems II exposure applies.
- Out of BETA — Sprecho launched in February 2026 and is shipping its 8th LLM version; Voicely still wears the BETA badge on its homepage.
- Mobile apps for iOS and Android plus Linux desktop — Voicely is macOS + Windows only.
Honest feature comparison
Voicely has a real German-language product. We compare it honestly — and we show every row where the BETA tag still bites.
Platform support
Privacy & DSGVO
German language quality
Pricing
Dictation features
Switch in three steps
Voicely stores vocabulary cloud-side — we'll help you export the list manually.
Download Sprecho
Win / Mac / Linux installer from sprecho.ai — 30 seconds.
Bring your vocabulary
Open Voicely Settings → Persönliches Lexikon, screenshot or copy the list, re-enter in Sprecho. One-click import is on the roadmap.
Re-map your shortcut
Default shortcut is Fn + Option. Match whatever you had on Voicely — 10 seconds in Settings.
A 12-person Berlin law firm migrated in under an hour, including dictionary import.
“We almost bought Voicely because of the 'Made in Germany' marketing. We caught the Cyprus entity in the Impressum two days before signing. Sprecho was an obvious upgrade.”