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24 alternatives to ListenUp

Read text aloud from images

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ListenUp launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   ocrX Image to Text▲125

   Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac

   2024 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   SpeakLine 5▲117

   Your text-to-speech companion for macOS, iOS and visionOS

   2024 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Wave▲310

   Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice

   Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Textify▲202

   macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR

   2020 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Elevenreader by ElevenLabs▲226

   Elevate your listening experience

   2025 · elevenreader.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Marley▲100

   Convert image to text and hear it read to you with AI.

   2017 · its alternatives →

7. 7IW
   I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen▲321

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Supavoice▲206

   Voice to text app for macos

   2025 · supavoice.app · its alternatives →

9. 9
   PDFify▲230

   Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression

   2018 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    TextSniper▲204

    Capture any text from your Mac's screen

    2020 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Dictato▲93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →

12. 12TO
    Talkie OCR – iOS app that scan books and read text aloud▲20

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Text Capture▲96

    Simple & convenient OCR tool for macOS

    2024 · textcapture.app · its alternatives →

14. 14
    PixelRead AI OCR▲74

    Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac

    21d ago · appunbound.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    MacWhisper▲123

    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Yap▲140

    Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Read Me Aloud▲80

    iPad tales for kids who are learning to read

    2023 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    SeeHear - Text Capture▲68

    Text-to-speech conversion

    2023 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download▲104

    Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Whisper Notes▲115

    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

    2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Captions for iOS▲112

    Live Captions & Translation in real-time

    2019 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Speechify Reader▲83

    Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader

    2022 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    MacWhisper for iOS▲166

    Transcribe & summarize looooong voice memos

    2025 · macwhisper.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Spoke▲102

    Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.

    Mar 2026 · usespoke.app · its alternatives →

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