Is Speechify still around? (2026)
Yes. Speechify is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.
Held steady at $29/mo the whole tracked window (51 days).
Reachable 100% of 51 tracked days.
First-party daily snapshots. One reading per day, grows over time.
What Speechify is
What sets it apart Built-in optical character recognition that converts printed pages and photographed text into spoken audio, extending its reader beyond on-screen web and document text
Best for People with dyslexia or other reading difficulties, and busy readers who prefer to consume articles, PDFs, and documents as audio across browser, phone, and desktop · Pricing model Freemium. A free tier includes a limited set of voices and reduced playback speed; a premium consumer subscription is advertised from around $29/month (annual billing is typically lower per official support/pricing references). Text-to-speech API access is priced separately on usage, from roughly $6 per 1M characters.
Speechify is a text-to-speech reader that turns articles, PDFs, and documents into spoken audio, running as a Chrome extension and as mobile and desktop apps. Alongside on-screen reading, it uses optical character recognition to convert printed pages and photographed text into audio. The product dates to 2016, built by a dyslexic Brown University student, and it targets people with reading difficulties as well as readers who would rather listen than read. A free tier provides a limited set of voices and slower playback, while a premium plan advertised from about $29 per month adds faster speeds and additional AI voices.
Sources Speechify - Pricing · Speechify - Wikipedia · Cliff Weitzman - Wikipedia · Cliff Weitzman's '16 Text-to-Speech App Garners National Acclaim - Brown University Engineering
The fine print, checked
What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Speechify's own pages, linked below.
The free plan includes 10 robotic sounding voices, listening at speeds up to 1.5x, and text to speech features only. Premium is listed at $29 per month, and the yearly billing option is labeled as saving 60%.
Speechify pricing page · checked Aug 6, 2026
Downloading audio as MP3 requires Premium and works only in the web app, not the mobile apps. Annual Premium subscribers can download up to 50 hours per year; monthly subscribers up to 3 hours per month.
Speechify Help Center · checked Aug 6, 2026
Cancellation is self-serve: log into your account at app.speechify.com, open your profile, click Settings, and select Cancel Subscription in the left panel. You keep Premium features until your next billing date. Subscriptions bought through the Apple App Store must be cancelled through Apple.
Speechify help article · checked Aug 6, 2026
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