# Speechify > Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents and web pages Speechify is mainly a reading app: it reads PDFs, documents, web pages and scanned pages aloud for your own listening, at up to 5x speed, on phones, computers and browser extensions. Premium adds natural voices, AI summaries and podcasts, voice typing and a voice assistant. Voiceovers, dubbing and voice cloning for publishing are sold as a separate product, Speechify Studio. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** Speechify Inc. - **Website:** https://speechify.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Browser extension - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Speechify has a free plan. Paid plans start at $29 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Listen anywhere at up to 1.5x speed with 10 robotic-sounding voices, text to speech features only. - **Free trial:** 3-day free trial of Premium in the app; the yearly plan is charged on day 3. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Listening at up to 1.5x speed with 10 robotic-sounding voices, and text to speech features only. | | Premium | $29 per month, billed monthly | 1,000+ natural voices in 60+ languages, 5x speed, Scan & Listen, AI summaries and chats, AI podcasts, voice typing and cloud drive imports. $139 a year billed yearly. | Read from https://speechify.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Speechify before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Premium for $139 a year** (Annual discount): Yearly billing costs $139 against $29 a month on monthly billing; the pricing page says this saves 60%. Source: https://speechify.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Listen to any text:** Have PDFs, documents, emails and web pages read aloud in natural voices, at speeds up to 5x on Premium. - **Scan & Listen:** Photograph a printed page or book and listen to it. Scanning is a Premium feature. - **AI summaries, chats and podcasts:** Premium can summarize what you are reading, answer questions about it and turn it into a podcast-style episode. - **Voice typing and voice assistant:** Dictate text in other apps with voice typing, and talk to the Voice AI Assistant about a website, book or anything else. - **Apps and cloud imports:** Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and Windows, extensions for Chrome and Edge, and imports from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive. - **Studio and API:** Speechify Studio, sold separately, makes voiceovers and dubbed videos with commercial rights. The API lets developers add Speechify voices and voice cloning to their apps. ## Good for - Students and professionals who would rather listen than read - People with reading difficulties or eye strain - Listening to long PDFs and articles on the move ## Worth knowing - The free plan is limited to 10 robotic-sounding voices at up to 1.5x speed; natural voices, scanning and the AI features need Premium. - Voiceovers for publishing need Speechify Studio, a separate plan: free with 600 credits and no commercial rights, or $100 or $300 a year with commercial rights. - Studio credits are spent per second: 1 for voiceover, 3 for dubbing and 30 for avatars, so $100 a year buys about 24 hours of voiceover. - Cloned voices need the voice owner to pass Speechify's verification or a written business agreement; users must be 18, and politicians' and deceased people's voices are barred. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Speechify is a reading app first: it reads PDFs, web pages, emails and photographed pages aloud at up to 5x speed, on just about every device. We graded it against other readers. It's polished and hugely popular, but the free voices sound robotic, Premium is $29 a month unless you pay yearly, and voiceovers you can publish need a separate Studio plan. - **Value for money: C.** Premium is $139 a year or $29 a month, a little dearer than NaturalReader's Plus. For voiceovers you'd want Studio instead: $100 a year with commercial rights, which the listing says buys about 24 hours of voiceover. Fair either way, and pay yearly if you pay at all. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free plan never ends, but it's 10 robotic-sounding voices at up to 1.5x. Natural voices, scanning and the AI tools are Premium, whose trial charges the yearly plan on day 3. Studio's free plan has no commercial rights, so it's no use for voiceovers. - **Features: B.** 1,000+ natural voices in 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, Scan & Listen, AI summaries, chats and podcasts, voice typing and a voice assistant. As a reader it covers the whole job. Voiceovers and cloning live in Studio and the API, sold separately. - **Ease of use: B.** 4.66 from 526,597 App Store ratings, just short of an A. Open a PDF or a web page and press play. Nobody needs a manual for that. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and the web, Chrome and Edge extensions, imports from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive, and an API. Wherever you read, it's there. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Speechify'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 - Speechify'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 platforms and integrations (A, above 9 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 9 of the 9 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 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 Speechify 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 $348 a year. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: Dictation that types into any app on your computer. - 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: It plugs into other products, Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive among them, and has an API. - 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:** 4.7 out of 5 from 526,597 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/id1209815023 ## Works with Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge **Tags:** Text to speech, Dictation, Voice cloning, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [NaturalReader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/naturalreader): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app. [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-speechify) - [Listnr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/listnr): AI voiceover studio with voice cloning and podcast hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/listnr-vs-speechify) - [Murf](https://toolgpa.com/tools/murf): AI voiceover studio with dubbing, translation and a speech API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/murf-vs-speechify) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://speechify.com - https://speechify.com/pricing/ - https://speechify.com/pricing-studio/ - https://speechify.com/studio-terms/ - https://speechify.com/terms/ - https://speechify.com/blog/upgrade-to-speechify-premium/ - https://speechify.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/speechify Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).