CloudBounce closed: what to use now

The closure notices and their dates

The login page notice read: “Dear customers, we deeply regret to inform you that it has been decided to close down CloudBounce business operations permanently as of the 1st of April 2025.”

The later notice sits on the site of Image-Line, the company behind FL Studio. It’s signed “CloudBounce team” and undated, and it says: “CloudBounce as a company has closed its operations permanently June 30th, 2025.”

CloudBounce’s help centre is gone too, but the Internet Archive kept much of it. By 4 May 2024 it was saying CloudBounce would “close its doors in phases”, about a year before the first date. Archive captures read 1 November 2026.

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Some listings haven’t caught up. One AI-tool directory still presents CloudBounce as a live service, with a $29.99 monthly plan and a link to the dead address.

What the record proves, and what it doesn’t

Proven:

• CloudBounce’s own notices state a permanent closure, and they name 1 April 2025 and 30 June 2025.
• Image-Line hosts the later notice.
• The website doesn’t load today, and the redirect that worked in 2025 no longer does.
• The domain name is still registered, so “the domain is gone” would be wrong. It just doesn’t lead anywhere.

Not proven:

• The day the service actually stopped. The login page outlasted 1 April 2025 by months. The later date reads like an extension, but that’s our inference and no source says so.
• Whether the Desktop App still works. The notice says it will go offline “later on” and gives no date.
• How Image-Line and CloudBounce are related. A help-centre article updated on 16 April 2024, in a capture from 20 June 2024, called Image-Line “the new parent company” and said management had decided to end the services “as an independent operator”. That’s the only description from CloudBounce or Image-Line that we found. Neither notice repeats it or says how that relationship came about.
• That no stand-alone CloudBounce has reopened anywhere. Nothing we read suggests one.

We read no independent press report of the closure. Everything here comes from CloudBounce, Image-Line, archive captures, one customer forum, one directory listing and our own checks.

What a former CloudBounce user can still do

• Logins. The later notice says that from 1 July 2025 it’s “impossible to login into any of the CloudBounce or BounceCast websites”, including to manage a plan or account details. cloudbounce.com doesn’t load now, so there’s no sign-in page to reach.
• Old mastered tracks. The same sentence lists “your old mastered tracks” among the things you can no longer download. The help centre had warned that “the absolute latest time to download will be before 1st April, 2025 after which the files will be destroyed.” We found no way to get them back and can’t say whether they still exist anywhere, so treat the copies you saved as the only ones. Search your computer, backup drives, cloud storage and anyone you sent them to.
• A lost master. If you still have the mix, you can master it again, starting from the mix and not from an old master. Our export guide covers the file. You’ll get a new master, not the old file. If you still hold an old master, the free comparison tool plays it against a new one at matched loudness in your browser, with no upload.
• The Desktop App. The notice says that if your plan still works, “you’re free to use the app until it will be taken completely offline later on.” We couldn’t confirm whether it still runs, and “download the apps” is on the list of what stopped, so you can’t fetch the installer from CloudBounce again. An older help article said all servers would close on 1 April 2025. Don’t plan a release around the app.
• Lifetime plans and reseller codes. That article said a Lifetime plan ran for the “lifetime of the company”. A second one gave Lifetime and Lifetime Mini holders until 1 April 2025 and said “any purchased codes not redeemed will not be refundable.”
• The Image-Line offer. The notice says Image-Line “has already reached out to the eligible CloudBounce customers during April-May 2025” and asks you to check the inbox of your CloudBounce email, junk folder included. It doesn’t say who was eligible, what the offer was, or whether it still stands. One buyer of the CloudBounce Mini deal posted on AppSumo in March 2025 that an Image-Line email offered “A perpetual license of FL Studio Fruity Edition with Lifetime Free Updates” and FL Cloud Free Mode. That’s one customer’s post, and we haven’t seen the email.
• Questions. The notice sends questions about CloudBounce to FL Studio support.

What the notice says about FL Studio

The notice says “CloudBounce’s mastering technology will live on inside FL Studio DAW as a built-in AI mastering feature”. That’s the company’s statement. We haven’t compared the two, so we can’t tell you whether a master from FL Studio matches one from CloudBounce.

It’s a feature inside a music production app, not a website you upload to. The notice’s steps are to drag your premaster audio file into an empty audio track, then choose FILE > EXPORT > MASTER, where you pick the output format, genre references and loudness level.

• With any FL Studio licence. Every edition includes FL Cloud’s free mode, with “AI-powered Mastering with the ‘Default’ Genre preset”, and the notice says every licence includes the Default. The FAQ on Image-Line’s FL Cloud page doesn’t agree: it lists “AI-powered mastering” only under Plus and Pro.
• With FL Cloud Plus or Pro. Both give “the same unlimited AI-powered mastering and access using all ‘Genre’ presets”. Image-Line’s shop lists Plus at $9.99 a month or $99 a year, and Pro at $14.99 a month or $149 a year. The mastering page offers 30 days free and says your card is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel first.
• FL Studio itself is separate. The shop says “FL Cloud subscriptions do not include FL Studio.” It’s a one-time purchase. Fruity Edition lists at $99 with no reduced price beside it. Producer Edition lists at $179, and was $139 in a sale running when we read the page.
• Check what Fruity Edition can do. Image-Line’s editions table gives it 8 audio clips and no audio recording, while the shop says both “No audio clips” and “Limited audio clips”. The notice’s steps start with an audio file on a track, so ask Image-Line before buying it for mastering alone.
• If you also use FL Cloud’s distribution. Image-Line says “your songs will be removed from Streaming platforms when your subscription ends unless you Subscribe to DistroKid directly.”

Live mastering services on 3 November 2026

These come from each company’s own pages. We bought nothing, ran no listening test and rank nobody, and where a page doesn’t settle something, the cell says so. Other services exist that we didn’t check. We make Bounce Sessions, so it’s listed first. The others are in alphabetical order.

Prices read 3 November 2026. They’re in US dollars as shown in the United States, and several services vary by region. Most of these pages print “$” with no currency code. LANDR is running a Black Friday sale on its yearly Studio plans and its plug-in, with no end date shown, so its regular prices sit beside the sale prices. Our paid plans and downloads aren’t on sale in every country yet.

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Our feature comparison goes further on controls and file formats. Its sections carry their own dates, so go by this table for prices.

Choosing from your own situation

This sorts the options by what you’re doing. It can’t tell you which suits your music.

You already use FL Studio. The route the notice names comes with your licence: Image-Line’s support article and the notice both say a licence includes the Default preset, though the FAQ on its FL Cloud page lists mastering only under Plus and Pro, so check in the app before you rely on it. Plus and Pro add the other genre presets, and Image-Line doesn’t say whether free mode has a limit.

You don’t use FL Studio. That route means buying a music production app, and possibly FL Cloud on top. The upload services in the table need neither.

You liked working on your own computer. FL Studio and Ozone run in software you install. LANDR also sells a mastering plug-in, $299 regular and $197.34 on sale.

One song, once. BandLab’s free presets and Mixea’s first free track cost nothing. Single prices are $4.99 here after a free preview, $5 at TuneCore, $9.90 at Aria and $10 at LANDR. eMastered and Masterchannel’s own site don’t list a price for one master.

A batch of finished songs. Twelve songs bought one at a time come to $59.88 here, $60 at TuneCore, $118.80 at Aria and $120 at LANDR. Those sums are ours, from the prices above, before any tax. A month of Unlimited here is $15, if every song is final and you download them all before the period ends.

Songs through the year. Yearly options include Unlimited here at $99, Mixea at $99, iZotope Plus at $150, eMastered at $156, Masterchannel’s Artist plan at $180, BandLab Pro at $99 for the first year then $149, and LANDR’s Studio plans. The table has the rest. What each comes to per song depends on how many you finish, and some of these plans include things other than mastering.

Songs that have to hold together as a record. LANDR, Masterchannel and BandLab publish album or multi-song features, and we haven’t tested them. Bounce Sessions masters each song on its own and doesn’t balance songs as a record. If yours needs that, personal mastering is the route here: an engineer quotes for the track, EP or album before any work starts. Our automated or personal guide helps you decide.