# Speechify: what's new, verdict & setup

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/speechify · First covered by us (no vendor release date published): 2026-10-25 · Last verified: 2026-10-25 · Evidence: Reported (not run by us) · Vendor: Speechify · Official site: https://speechify.com/

> Text-to-speech app that reads PDFs, books and web pages aloud, with a Free plan and a $29 monthly premium price.

## Verdict

**Text-to-speech app that reads PDFs, books and web pages aloud, with a Free plan and a $29 monthly premium price.**

Good for:
- People who want documents read aloud

Skip if:
- Developers needing an API only

Status: Reported. Written from official release notes and docs; we have not run this release ourselves.

Pricing: Official page, dated. Read from speechify.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. (checked 2026-10-25)

## Best for

- [Best AI tool for AI voice and speech](https://theagenticweekly.com/best/voice-ai) (#-): Text-to-speech reader and voice typing.

## Key facts

Speechify's pricing page lists Free and a premium plan at $29 a month billed monthly; its site says it has 60M+ users and supports voice typing and a Q&A assistant.

- License: Proprietary
- Platforms: Web and apps
- Pricing model: Freemium
- Free tier: Free plan
- Paid plans: Premium $29 per month billed monthly
- How to start: Sign up free and import a document.
- Catalog entry: facts read from the vendor's pages on 2026-10-25. We do not track release notes for this entry.

## How to set it up: Get started with Speechify

These steps come from the vendor's own pages as read on 2026-10-25. We have not run Speechify.

1. **Get access.** Sign up free and import a document.
2. **Check the limits and costs first.** Free plan. Paid: Premium $29 per month billed monthly. Read from speechify.com/pricing on 2026-10-25.

## Pros and cons

Pros:
- Free plan

Cons:
- Monthly price shown is the unrebated rate

## Alternatives

- [ElevenLabs](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/elevenlabs): Voice, speech, music and voice-agent platform with a detailed API changelog.
- [AssemblyAI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/assemblyai): Speech AI APIs for transcription and understanding; start free, pay as you go.
- [Cartesia](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/cartesia): Realtime voice AI: text-to-speech, speech-to-text in 44 languages and voice agents, with a free plan and credit tiers.
- [Deepgram](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/deepgram): Voice AI APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and agents with $200 in free credit.
- [Murf AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/murf-ai): Text-to-speech platform with a $10 free API trial, pay-as-you-go credits and per-character API pricing.
- [Resemble AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/resemble-ai): Resemble AI now leads with real-time deepfake detection and watermarking for audio, video and images; plans from free to $1,000 a month.
- [Retell AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/retell): Voice AI agents for phone calls with pay-per-minute pricing and 20 free concurrent calls.
- [Vapi](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/vapi): Developer platform for voice agents; $5 free credits, then pay for the minutes you run.
- [Piper](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/piper): Fast local neural text-to-speech that runs on CPU.
- [faster-whisper](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/faster-whisper): Speech-to-text library that runs OpenAI Whisper models with CTranslate2.

## FAQ

### What is Speechify?

Speechify's pricing page lists Free and a premium plan at $29 a month billed monthly; its site says it has 60M+ users and supports voice typing and a Q&A assistant.

### Is Speechify free?

Free plan. Paid: Premium $29 per month billed monthly. Read from speechify.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. Checked 2026-10-25; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page.

### What license is Speechify under?

Its license: Proprietary. Read from the project's own pages on 2026-10-25.

## What we have not verified

- Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry)

## Sources

- [Speechify](https://speechify.com/) (fetched 2026-10-25)
- [Speechify pricing](https://speechify.com/pricing) (fetched 2026-10-25)

## How to cite

Agentic Weekly, "Speechify: what's new, verdict & setup", last updated 2026-10-25, https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/speechify

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