Speechify is the better app for listening to your own reading — phone apps, scan-and-listen and fast playback. AudioPod is for producing audio others will hear: article narration, voice cloning, podcasts and ACX-spec audiobooks you export and publish, billed per character instead of a reader subscription.
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AudioPod produces audio files: an Audio Reader that narrates any public article URL, text to speech with 500+ voices in 200+ languages, voice cloning, a Podcast Studio and an Audiobook Studio with ACX-spec export. Web app and API; no phone app.
This page compares the Speechify reader app. Its pricing page lists a free plan with 10 basic voices and playback up to 1.5x, and a Premium plan with 1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, scan-and-listen, AI summaries and podcasts, and cloud-drive integrations. Speechify also sells Speechify Studio (voiceovers and dubbing) and a developer API, priced separately; its API pricing page offers consent-first voice cloning on paid plans.
See exactly how these tools compare across all major features
Different jobs. Speechify wins for personal listening on the go. AudioPod wins when the audio is a product — narration, podcasts, audiobooks — that you download, edit and publish.
Choose Speechify to listen to documents and email faster. Choose AudioPod to create audio for an audience or to narrate a book.
Publishers adding audio to articles, authors narrating books, podcasters and developers who need files and an API.
Students, professionals and readers with dyslexia who want to listen to text on a phone.
The free plan grants 5,000 credits a month; pay-as-you-go credits ($1 = 7,500 credits) never expire. Free-plan output is for personal use; anything made on a paid plan or with purchased credits can be used commercially. AudioPod prices and plan limits: see pricing
Run your own file through AudioPod on the free plan — the most honest comparison is your own ears.