Speechify
Yappy vs Speechify: a free, offline alternative
A cloud text to speech reader with iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows apps, a browser extension and over a thousand voices synthesised on their servers. It is the best known product in the category.
Yappy against Speechify, at a glance
| What | Yappy | Speechify |
|---|---|---|
| What you can do for free | Unlimited listening; three documents at a time | The free plan gives you ten voices their own page calls "robotic sounding", a 1.5x speed ceiling and text to speech only. Natural voices, document scanning and AI summaries all sit behind the paywall. |
| Price from | €0; the wind-up from €3.99 a month | 29 $/mes · unos 139 $/año (11,60 $/mes facturados de una vez) |
| 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 | No |
| Languages | 31 | más de 60 (plan de pago) |
| Formats it reads | PDF, EPUB, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, MD, HTML, PPTX, XLSX | PDF, DOCX, EPUB, páginas web, correo, fotos escaneadas |
| 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 Speechify wins
It wins on voice catalogue and raw speed: over a thousand voices, licensed celebrity voices and playback up to 5x, which no on-device engine matches today. It also wins on office integrations, Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive, on AI summaries and on its browser extension, and it is the option with the longest track record and the largest support team.