ElevenReader
Yappy vs ElevenReader: a free, offline alternative
ElevenLabs' own reader, built on the speech engine that made expressive synthesis mainstream. It turns documents and articles into audio in the cloud and syncs them between phone and web.
Yappy against ElevenReader, at a glance
| What | Yappy | ElevenReader |
|---|---|---|
| What you can do for free | Unlimited listening; three documents at a time | Ten hours of text to audio a month, roughly four hundred pages by their own count, with over a thousand voices and a library of free audiobooks. Unused hours expire at the end of each month. |
| Price from | €0; the wind-up from €3.99 a month | 11 $/mes · 99 $/año (8,25 $/mes) |
| The voice is made on your device | Yes | No |
| No account, no email | Yes | No |
| Works offline | Yes | Partly |
| Per-character or per-hour fees | No | Yes |
| Languages | 31 | más de 30 |
| Formats it reads | PDF, EPUB, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, MD, HTML, PPTX, XLSX | PDF, EPUB, artículos web, texto pegado |
| Audiobook with chapters | .m4b | No |
| Desktop | Yes | Partly |
| 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 ElevenReader wins
It wins on voice quality: the ElevenLabs engine is still the benchmark for intonation and emotion, and no voice small enough to fit on a phone comes close. It also wins on catalogue, with over two hundred thousand paid audiobooks and thousands of free ones inside the subscription, on custom voice cloning, and on annual price, which is among the lowest around.