Blacklist
Tools we tell you not to buy, and why. Every entry here is a company still taking money from creators while something is materially wrong — a bankruptcy that was never announced, access sold and then withdrawn, or terms that changed after payment.
What gets a tool listed here
A low score is not a reason to be on this page. Plenty of tools we rate poorly are honest businesses that simply are not very good yet, and they stay in the normal rankings with their number attached. This page is for something different: cases where a creator can lose money or lose work.
- The company is insolvent or being wound up and is still selling subscriptions.
- Access that was paid for has been withdrawn without notice or refund.
- Terms changed after payment in a way that removes what was bought — export rights, licence, ownership.
- A documented pattern of unanswered support where customers have had to go to a regulator or a chargeback.
Every entry names what happened, when, and where it was established. We do not list a company on rumour, on a bad review, or because a competitor said so. A listed tool is removed from our rankings and from the tool finder, and we do not link to it. If a listed company puts the problem right, we say so on this page and lift the listing — corrections are dated, not quietly deleted.
Listed
LOVO (Genny)
Text-to-speech and video editor · Berkeley, CaliforniaWhat happened
Lovo Inc. filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States on 27 May 2026. Chapter 7 is liquidation, not restructuring: the company is wound up. The filing came shortly before a scheduled hearing in a class action brought by voice actors who alleged their voices had been cloned from old recordings without consent.
How creators were caught out
The bankruptcy was never announced to customers. Independent reporting through mid-2026 found lovo.ai still online, still advertising a free trial and still selling subscriptions, with no notice of the filing anywhere on the site. Paying subscribers reported losing access to accounts they had already paid for, starting weeks before the filing.
One documented case: a customer paid for a lifetime plan in January 2025, was silently moved back to the free tier in late April 2026, got no reply from support, and ended up filing a formal complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission. Anyone who subscribes today is paying a company that is being liquidated.
If you already pay for it
Download whatever you still have access to, and do not renew. If you are on an annual or lifetime plan and have lost access, a chargeback through your card issuer or PayPal is usually the only practical route, and it is time-limited. If a project depends on a custom cloned voice stored there, treat that voice as gone and plan a replacement.
Working alternatives
ElevenLabs
82/100One audio stack for voiceover, music and SFX, with music licensing cleared via Merlin and Kobalt.
Murf AI
79/100A timeline-style voiceover studio for non-technical teams, with strong slide and video sync.
Speechify
70/100A listening-first text-to-speech app with a separate Studio for voiceover, cloning and dubbing.
Tell us about one
If a tool has taken your money and not delivered, we want the details: what you paid for, what you got, and what support said. Dated evidence is what makes a listing possible. Write to us here.