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24 alternatives to TAYL 2.0

Make listening your new reading habit.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. TAYL 2.0 launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
TAYL▲182
Listen to websites as you would listen to podcasts.
2019 · tayl.app · its alternatives →
2
Pocket Listen▲425
Reading is hard. Listen to articles instead.
2015 · getpocket.com · its alternatives →
3
Audioread (formerly Audiblogs)▲629
Listen to any web article in your podcast player
2021 · audioread.com · its alternatives →
4
Recast▲660
Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/ AI
2023 · letsrecast.ai · its alternatives →
5
Listening.io▲243
Turn articles into audio and listen in your podcast app
2022 · listening.com · its alternatives →
6
Readaway 2.0▲97
Let your ears do the reading.
2019 · its alternatives →
7
Speechify 2.0▲122
Have your computer read to you.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
9
TL;DL▲243
Too long; didn't listen - bookmark and discover podcasts.
2020 · its alternatives →
10
read-this.ai▲153
Turn instantly any article into a podcast with one click
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
11
Speechify Gen 0.1▲256
Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
12
Newsly▲113
Listen to a personalized choice of web content & podcasts
2021 · newsly.me · its alternatives →
13
Read2Me▲125
Convert any website or file into a podcast
2017 · read2me.online · its alternatives →
14
Glisten▲89
Listening workouts for language learners
2023 · mentalfaculty.com · its alternatives →
15
Vocally▲188
Create, host, distribute voiceovers & podcasts
2022 · vocally.to · its alternatives →
16
ReadCast▲141
Turn your reading list into a podcast
2019 · duncanmcclean.com · its alternatives →
17
Voice Out▲97
Text-to-speech to read any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF
2024 · voiceout.app · its alternatives →
18
Fragment AI▲126
The fastest way to know more
2025 · bubble.io · its alternatives →
19
elocance 2.0▲139
Turn your reading list into a podcast, instantly!
2020 · elocance.com · its alternatives →
20IL
Instantly listen to any URL▲134
2021 · per.quest · its alternatives →
21
Blakify▲75
Turn any text into audio in a matter of seconds
2021 · blakify.com · its alternatives →
22
RatherListen▲86
Convert URLs, PDFs, & photos to clear spoken audio
2020 · ratherlisten.app · its alternatives →
23
Verblr▲147
Listen to what you read online
2020 · its alternatives →
24
Listen To This▲151
Paste an article to listen to it in your podcast app
Mar 2026 · listentothis.xyz · its alternatives →

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