What voiceover artists need from their software, from sources outside Wave and outside Nexa:
Wave covers the bookkeeping side of a home-booth voiceover business well. Its free Starter plan includes unlimited estimates, invoices, bills and bookkeeping records. Pro, at $19 a month, adds automatic bank transaction import, automatic categorizing and late-payment reminders at 3, 7 and 14 days. That suits someone paid by many small clients who wants less manual entry. Wave does not track usage terms such as length, medium and territory per job. It also has nothing that sets money aside for self-employment tax or estimated payments, and nothing that separates booth space and hours for a home office claim. Those would have to live in your own notes or a spreadsheet.
Nexa covers invoices, estimates, quotes and proposals that convert to invoices. It also has a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, expenses, receipt scanning, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, 1099 summaries and time tracking. It works offline. Nexa has no dedicated field for usage terms, tax set-asides or home-office tracking, so it leaves the same gaps as Wave. It has no bank import or sync with QuickBooks or Xero. Its automated emails (sequences, workflows and reminders) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, so it can't replace Wave's late-payment reminders when the app is closed. It is software you run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years, Wave Pro is $228 a year, or $684. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. If you pay for Pro mainly for bank import and can live without reminders, Nexa is cheaper over three years, but you give up automatic import. If you can work from the free Starter plan, Wave costs less than either. Stay with Wave if you rely on bank import or reminders that go out without your app open. Consider Nexa only if you want a one-time purchase, you're comfortable keeping it open for emails, and you don't need bank import. Either way, a tool that records usage terms per job is the missing piece.
Our read for voiceover artists: Stay with Wave: its bank import and reminders work without an open app, and neither tool tracks usage terms or tax set-asides.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Wave costs voiceover artists $228/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 14.7 months it has cost less than Wave, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Wave bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for voiceover artists: Stay with Wave if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $684 for Wave over three years.
Invoicing, client records, time tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Wave solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $19/month — $228 a year, from Wave's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $405 less.
If Wave raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Wave | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✓ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $19/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $684 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Wave come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Wave lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Wave's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Wave is the better call if you need free plan covering unlimited invoices and bookkeeping specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Wave says it is built for small business owners and solopreneurs at every stage, not accountants. Its page names freelancers, contractors and consultants. (waveapps.com)
What people outside Wave and outside Nexa say:
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the creative work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every voiceover artist: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to the creative work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed project — with the scope and the deposit locked in.
The work itself — tracked against the project: hours, milestones, revisions, and expenses, so nothing bills late or goes uncounted.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on the creative work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A voiceover artist's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Wave plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median voiceover artist earns $35,000/year. At $228/year, Wave is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for voiceover artists. You own it like you own your Professional microphone (Neumann, Sennheiser).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small voiceover artists business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling into a large team with dedicated admin staff, a bigger platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
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Open on Reddit →Invoicing, client records, time tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. The sections below price both routes honestly.
Most of my work happens in a padded closet. Every morning I warm up my voice, then work through auditions: a few commercial reads, an explainer video, sometimes a video-game character, each one recorded, lightly cleaned up and submitted within hours, because the fastest good read often wins. Maybe one in twenty turns into a booking. A booked job means a directed session, often with the client listening in remotely, taking notes on pace and emphasis and recording alternate takes. Then editing: removing breaths and mouth clicks, levelling, and delivering files in the exact format they asked for. Audiobooks are a different rhythm: hours of narration a day, then editing and correcting mistakes against the manuscript, paid per finished hour. Rates depend on usage, so a regional radio spot, a national TV ad and a corporate training video are priced very differently, and I have to read every contract for how long and where my voice will run. I'm also maintaining my booth, microphone and interface, because noise ruins a take.
Real voiceover artists near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a voiceover artist? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every voiceover artist on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a voiceover artist's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a voiceover artist — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo voiceover artists and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Wave may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Wave has features like Free plan covering unlimited invoices and bookkeeping and Bank transaction import on Pro that some businesses rely on. For most solo voiceover artists, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $19/month, Nexa pays for itself in 14.7 months. After that: $228 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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