# NaturalReader

> Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app

NaturalReader is mainly a reading tool: it reads documents, PDFs, web pages and photographed text aloud for your own listening, on the web, phones, a Chrome extension and desktop software. Audio from the personal plans is for private use only. A separate Commercial app, priced by monthly credits, makes licensed voiceovers and clones your voice.

- **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech
- **Made by:** NaturalSoft Limited
- **Website:** https://www.naturalreaders.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension, Windows, macOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

NaturalReader has a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.92 per month, billed annually ($20.90 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free personal plan: unlimited listening with the free voices, 5 minutes a day of Plus AI voices and limited AI features. For personal use only, with no MP3 downloads.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Unlimited listening with free voices and 5 minutes a day of Plus AI voices, for personal use only. |
| Plus | $9.92 per month, billed annually ($20.90 billed monthly) | Personal use: Plus AI voices for 500,000 characters a day, MP3 downloads of 1 million characters a month, AI features and an OCR scanner. |
| Pro | $13.25 per month, billed annually ($25.90 billed monthly) | Personal use: everything in Plus, with Gemini and OpenAI voices whose tone and emotion you set with a prompt. |
| Commercial Starter | $16.5 per month for 500,000 credits, billed annually ($29 monthly) | Commercially licensed voiceovers for a single user, with Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs voices and voice cloning. |
| Commercial Creator | $24.75 per month for 2M credits, billed annually ($49 monthly) | The Starter features with 2 million credits a month, for a single user. |
| Commercial Team | $16 per user / month, billed annually ($33 billed monthly) | Sold from 2 users with 4 million shared credits a month. Each extra user is $16 a month and adds 2 million credits. |

Read from https://www.naturalreaders.com/webapp.html on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with NaturalReader before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save about 50% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Plus is $119 a year ($9.92 a month) against $20.90 monthly, and Commercial Starter is $198 a year ($16.5 a month) against $29 monthly. Source: https://www.naturalreaders.com/webapp.html
- **Discounted group and site licenses for schools** (Education): NaturalReader EDU sells discounted group licenses, or site licenses for a whole school, with one license covering several platforms. The page lists no prices. Source: https://www.naturalreaders.com/edu.html

## Key features

- **Read anything aloud:** Listen to text, PDFs, Word files, ePubs, web pages and photos of printed pages, with an OCR scanner on the paid personal plans.
- **AI reading tools:** Turn a document into a podcast-style episode, get a recap of its key points, ask questions about it or generate quizzes.
- **Chrome extension and mobile apps:** A Chrome extension reads web pages where you find them, and iOS and Android apps let you listen on the go.
- **Commercial voiceover app:** A separate app for voiceovers you may publish, with voices from Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs models in more than 90 languages and delivery set by prompt.
- **Voice cloning:** Commercial plans include cloning, which NaturalReader describes as recording or uploading your own voice to make a multilingual AI voice.
- **Desktop software:** Windows and Mac software for personal use, free with basic voices or sold as one-time licenses that add natural voices and MP3 export.

## Good for

- Students and readers who prefer to listen to documents and web pages
- People with dyslexia or other reading difficulties
- Schools that want group or site licenses
- Creators who need licensed voiceovers from several AI voice models

## Worth knowing

- Audio from the Free, Plus and Pro plans is for private listening only; publishing it, even for internal training or a nonprofit, needs a Commercial plan.
- Commercial is a separate app and subscription, and its downloads need a paid plan. Commercial subscriptions are non-refundable.
- Paid personal plans cap MP3 conversion at 1 million characters a month, and Commercial credits are spent per character at a rate that varies by voice.
- The desktop software is sold apart from the subscriptions, as one-time licenses of $99.50, $129.50 or $199.50.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. NaturalReader is mostly a reader: point it at a PDF, a web page or a photo of a page and it reads it to you, on almost any device. We graded it mainly as that. It also sells a separate Commercial app for voiceovers you can publish, with voice cloning, but that's a second app and a second bill, and the reading plans' audio is for your ears only.

- **Value for money: C.** As a reader, Plus is $9.92 a month billed yearly ($20.90 monthly), a bit under Speechify's Premium. For voiceovers you need Commercial Starter: $16.5 a month billed yearly for 500,000 credits, spent per character at a rate that depends on the voice. Middle of the road both ways.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Graded as a reader, it's one you can live on: unlimited listening with the free voices, plus 5 minutes a day of the better ones, and no card needed. For voiceovers it's no use, as it's personal use only with no MP3 downloads.
- **Features: B.** It reads PDFs, Word files, ePubs, web pages and photographed pages aloud, turns documents into podcast-style episodes and quizzes, and has a Commercial app with Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs voices and cloning. Both jobs are covered, in separate apps.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.55 from 9,134 App Store ratings. Open a document and press play. The only confusing part is that reading and voiceovers are two apps with two subscriptions.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone, Android, a Chrome extension, and Windows and Mac software. That's every device, but no API or integrations are listed, which keeps it off an A.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from NaturalReader's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI voice generators

- NaturalReader's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 7 of the 9 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 1.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 9 of 9) and worst on value for money (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $9.92 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 3 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace NaturalReader you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 7 of the 9 other AI voice generators we grade. It costs $119.04 a year.

- You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make.
- You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 9,134 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1487572960

**Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Speechify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speechify): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents and web pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/naturalreader-vs-speechify)
- [ElevenLabs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elevenlabs): AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elevenlabs-vs-naturalreader)
- [Murf](https://toolgpa.com/tools/murf): AI voiceover studio with dubbing, translation and a speech API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/murf-vs-naturalreader)
- [Listnr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/listnr): AI voiceover studio with voice cloning and podcast hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/listnr-vs-naturalreader)
- [WellSaid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wellsaid): AI voiceover studio with voices licensed from paid voice actors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/naturalreader-vs-wellsaid)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.naturalreaders.com
- https://www.naturalreaders.com/webapp.html
- https://www.naturalreaders.com/comm.html
- https://www.naturalreaders.com/software.html
- https://www.naturalreaders.com/appdownload.html
- https://www.naturalreaders.com/edu.html

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/naturalreader
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