Contenido hablado de Apple
Yappy vs Contenido hablado de Apple: a free, offline alternative
Not an app but a system accessibility feature. It reads aloud whatever you select or whatever is on screen, using the voices already installed on the device and without sending the text anywhere.
Yappy against Contenido hablado de Apple, at a glance
| What | Yappy | Contenido hablado de Apple |
|---|---|---|
| What you can do for free | Unlimited listening; three documents at a time | All of it. It ships with iOS, iPadOS and macOS: speak selection, speak screen, highlight content as it reads and adjust the rate, with nothing to pay and nothing to install. Apple Books reads EPUBs aloud and Safari offers to listen to the page. |
| Price from | €0; the wind-up from €3.99 a month | no data |
| The voice is made on your device | Yes | Yes |
| No account, no email | Yes | Yes |
| Works offline | Yes | Yes |
| Per-character or per-hour fees | No | No |
| Languages | 31 | decenas, las de las voces del sistema |
| Formats it reads | PDF, EPUB, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, MD, HTML, PPTX, XLSX | lo que haya en pantalla, más EPUB en Apple Books y páginas web en Safari |
| Audiobook with chapters | .m4b | No |
| Desktop | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | MIT | No |
Public data checked in 2026-09 on each product's own site. Prices change often: check them before deciding. Official site
Where Contenido hablado de Apple wins
It wins by already being there: no money, no account, no download, and it works inside any app on the phone or the computer, not just in documents you import. Synthesis is on-device, so there is no cloud and no character cap, it plugs into VoiceOver and the rest of the system accessibility stack, and the speak-screen gesture is two fingers away at any moment.