Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Text-to-speech app for ebooks, with human-like voices launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Readr▲113

   A free reader that answers your questions and reads aloud

   Sep 2026 · readr-ai.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Speechify Gen 0.1▲256

   Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks

   2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Murmur▲75

   A private voice-first notepad for your thoughts

   28d ago · murmurr.subhr.in · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Folio▲98

   A read-later app sending a typeset digest to your e-reader

   Aug 2026 · myfolio.so · its alternatives →

5. 5LA
   Letters app for children using Speech API▲8

   2014 · ricardo.cc · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Text Reader AI▲158

   Free text-to-speech generator with realistic AI voices

   2024 · textreader.ai · its alternatives →

7. 7
   VoiceCap▲100

   The AI notetaker for meetings in your language

   Sep 2026 · voicecap.ai · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Speek▲75

   A voice assistant that lives in your Mac's notch

   26d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9OI
   Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks▲84

   Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…

   2024 · oration.app · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Prose▲65

    the worlds first gesture-to-speech app

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Shall We Talk▲62

    Voice dictation that saves transcriptions on iPhone and Mac

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Speechify Reader▲83

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

    2022 · speechify.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    JuliusJS▲94

    A speech recognition library for the web

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14ST
    SuperVoc Text to Speech with Google, IBM Watson, Azure and Amazon Polly▲9

    2019 · supervoc.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Sayonic▲71

    A voice assistant in your Mac's notch that does the task

    25d ago · sayonic.app · its alternatives →

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    Commonplace Book App▲78

    Digitally record quotes and book notes

    2017 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Maybloc▲57

    new SOTA for speech-to-text for multi-speaker audio

    8d ago · maybloc.com · its alternatives →

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    LIbby▲30

    An app for library ebooks and audiobooks

    2017 · overdrive.com · its alternatives →

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    Voice Memo▲67

    Open-source voice notes that file your tasks and reminders

    26d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20TE
    Text Editor for creating Voice Over Audio▲8

    2019 · play.ht · its alternatives →

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    Voicera▲72

    Turn natural speech into polished text, perfected with AI

    22d ago · voicera.app · its alternatives →

22. 22AF
    API for ultra-realistic text-to-speech generation▲5

    2020 · demo.amai.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Spoken Layer▲64

    Mobile Engagement through the Power of the Human Voice

    2014 · spokenlayer.com · its alternatives →

24. 24CB
    Communication Board with Text-to-speech in the browser▲7

    2017 · shayc.github.io · its alternatives →

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