Acedly AI
Summary
Live interviews go sideways the moment a question lands that you half-prepared for — you know the shape of the answer but can't sequence it fast enough under pressure. Acedly sits as a private desktop overlay, listens to the question, and surfaces a response framed against your resume and the role in about 200 ms.
The core loop is capture, match, display: Acedly transcribes the interviewer's spoken question, cross-references it against your uploaded resume and the target role, and puts a suggested answer on a private overlay only you can see — nothing appears on your shared screen. The mock interview module extends this into structured practice: 76+ scenarios across engineering, product, design, and business roles, with a scored report after each session that tells you exactly where your answers lost points. The meeting assistant leg adds real-time transcription, translation across 30+ languages, and automatic summaries with action items. Where it strains: the tool is passive — it surfaces prompts, but you are doing all the synthesis, delivery, and judgment call on what to actually say.
Bottom line: Pick Acedly for live interview prep where a 200 ms overlay prompt closes the gap between knowing an answer and sequencing it cleanly — but if you need a tool that helps you build durable interview skills through structured coaching feedback over time rather than in-the-moment prompts, the overlay dependency becomes a crutch the tool has no mechanism to remove.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Free Tier
- 15 free minutes, 45 min per session, basic AI models
Free
15 free minutes, 45 min per session, basic models, resume and JD upload, private overlay
- Limited usage
- Basic AI models
Pro
Unlimited credits, 3 hours per session
- Unlimited credits
- Extended session time
Lifetime
One-time payment, unlimited everything, 5 hours per session
- Unlimited access
- Lifetime use
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Private overlay visible only on your local screen, so live assistance runs without appearing in your shared view — which means you avoid the risk of a browser tab or external device being spotted during a recorded session.
- Under-200 ms latency from spoken question to displayed answer, so the prompt appears before you would have started stumbling, not after you've already filled the silence.
- Resume and role context built into the answer surface logic, so suggestions are framed against your actual experience rather than generic frameworks you'd still need to personalize under pressure.
- 76+ role-specific mock scenarios with adaptive follow-up questions and a scored post-session report, so you find the gaps in your answers before the real panel does.
- Real-time transcription and translation across 30+ languages, so cross-language interviews — or interviews with a panel where one member is not speaking your first language — stay legible as they happen.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The overlay delivers a prompt, not a coached response — you still have to read it, decide what to use, and deliver it naturally under pressure. Candidates who rely on the prompt without internalizing the underlying answer structure will sound scripted. There is no mechanism in the tool to break that dependency over time.
- No API and no self-hosted option means you cannot integrate Acedly into a company's internal interview training workflow, embed it in an LMS, or run it in an air-gapped environment. Teams building structured candidate prep programs at scale hit this ceiling immediately and move to a platform they can deploy and customize.
- The mock interview module covers 76+ scenarios, but community reports on tools in this category consistently flag that AI interviewers do not replicate the unpredictable follow-up chains, loaded pauses, or social pressure of a live panel — which means candidates who test exclusively in mock sessions and never do actual practice interviews with humans are measuring the wrong variable.
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About
- Platforms
- Desktop (macOS, Windows)
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-21T12:54:28.296Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Job candidates preparing for technical and behavioral interviews
- Users needing discreet real-time prompts during live calls
- Multilingual interview scenarios across 30+ languages
What it does well
- Live interview assistance on Zoom, Teams or Meet
- Mock interview practice with AI interviewers
- Post-interview debrief and targeted practice
- Real-time meeting transcription and summarization
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Acedly AI free?
- Acedly AI has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Acedly AI open source?
- No — Acedly AI is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Acedly AI support?
- Acedly AI is available on: Desktop (macOS, Windows).
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Acedly runs as a desktop overlay on top of Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Amazon Chime. When an interviewer speaks, Acedly transcribes the question, checks it against your uploaded resume and the role context you’ve configured, and displays a suggested answer or framework on a private layer of your screen — not shared, not visible to anyone else on the call. The vendor states median latency from spoken question to displayed answer is under 200 milliseconds. The workflow covers three stages: live interview assistance, automatic post-interview debrief, and targeted practice based on the gaps the debrief identifies.
The differentiating feature is the private overlay architecture — the response appears only on your local screen, with no screen-share footprint. This is the design choice that separates it from tools that require a browser tab or a secondary device. The mock interview module pairs with this: you choose a lifelike AI avatar persona, set company, role, and difficulty level, and run a real-time video session. The AI asks adaptive follow-up questions based on what you actually say, not a static script, and delivers a scored report covering communication, answer structure, and technical depth at session end.
The tool fits candidates running an active job search who want live coverage across multiple interview rounds and languages — the docs describe 30+ spoken languages at consistent accuracy, with specific callouts for Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. It fits less well for teams or hiring managers: the entire product is designed around the candidate perspective, and there is no API, no self-hosted option, and no integrations outside the supported video platforms. The meeting assistant features — transcription, translation, automatic summaries, file-grounded Q&A — extend the surface area, but they are additive to the core interview use case rather than a standalone meeting intelligence product.