Audioread
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveTurns articles, PDFs and emails into a private podcast feed
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Three plans, Free, Pro and Max, per the vendor's own help articles; the pricing page renders client-side and no USD prices could be read from the vendor today. Max adds the best-quality English voices and a full 1M characters a month, extra character bundles can be bought on top of the monthly allotment, and the trial asks for a card before it converts to paid.
Use tool ↗About Audioread
Audioread converts saved web pages, PDFs, documents, forwarded emails and RSS items into synthetic narration and drops each item into a personal podcast feed. Because the output is a standard RSS feed, it plays in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts and similar apps with offline download, rather than requiring the vendor's own player. Content is submitted via a browser extension, a URL, or a private email address.
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android · Chrome extension · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page: converts articles, newsletters, PDFs and links into a private podcast feed playable in Overcast, Apple Podcasts or Pocket Casts; URL and email ingestion; developer API documented at /api/docs with Firebase ID-token auth; no prices, company name or address served (15 October 2026)audioread.com ↗
- Vendor help article metadata: 'Audioread Max, Pro, and Free plans with different features and limits'; a sibling article covers the browser extension and another says extra characters are bought as bundles on top of a monthly allotment; the pricing page itself rendered no prices to a fetcher (15 October 2026)audioread.com ↗
- Vendor help article: 'Max adds super premium voices and full 1M characters with best-quality voices (English)' (15 October 2026)audioread.com ↗
- Vendor help article: 'Yes – API for high-quality text-to-speech as MP3 or podcast feed'; a sibling article explains the card is taken for the trial, which 'is free, then paid' (15 October 2026)audioread.com ↗
Is Audioread legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Mar 13, 2003 (23 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 10, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of Audioread
The private-podcast-feed model is the whole point: you listen in the podcast app you already use instead of learning a new reader. If you want in-app highlighting, speed-reading and study features, Speechify beats it outright.
Pros
- Standard RSS output means no proprietary player and real offline support
- Multiple ingestion paths: extension, URL paste, email forwarding, RSS subscription
- A documented API with OAuth exists, which is rare for a consumer read-aloud tool
- Handles PDFs and Word documents, not just web articles
Cons
- Pricing is not visible without loading the app, which makes comparison shopping annoying
- No public company or team information anywhere on the site
- No highlighting or read-along text view since playback happens outside the product
- Voice selection and quality depend on the plan, and limits are not documented publicly
Best for
- Commuters who already live in Overcast or Apple Podcasts and want their read-later queue there
- People clearing newsletter backlogs by forwarding email to a listening inbox
- Anyone who needs offline listening without a dedicated app subscription
Not for
- Studying or annotating text — there is no synced highlighting or note-taking
- Paywalled articles the extension cannot reach
- Teams needing shared libraries; this is a personal feed
Watch out: Everything about the commercial terms — plan prices, word or article caps, voice access — is hidden behind sign-in, so budget for a surprise before you commit a reading backlog to it.
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