Compare · ElevenReader vs Audible
ElevenReader vs Audible
ElevenReader: ElevenLabs’ mobile reader app that reads aloud any text, book or document with AI voices. Audible: Amazon’s audiobook store and membership: professionally narrated audiobooks and podcasts from its catalogue, rather than narration of your own files. Here is how they differ, and where Book2Speech fits if what you want is your books as audiobooks.
Choose ElevenReader if…
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Offline listening on the phone (Ultra: 150 hours of downloads a month).
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A very large voice catalogue, including celebrity narrators and custom voices.
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A large catalogue of premium audiobooks for Ultra members.
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Native Android app available today.
Choose Audible if…
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Professionally narrated audiobooks from a very large catalogue, including Audible exclusives.
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Premium membership includes thousands of titles in an all-you-can-listen catalogue plus a monthly credit.
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Immersion Reading highlights the Kindle text as the narrator reads, when you own both editions.
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Offline downloads, a sleep timer, and playback on Apple Watch, CarPlay and Alexa devices.
Or, for your books: Book2Speech
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Any book, not just the bestsellers that got an audiobook: fewer than 1 in 100 books ever does.
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Unlimited free listening in English with Standard voices, no trial clock.
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A real audiobook file to keep: M4B with chapters and cover, or MP3. One is included on the Free plan.
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Built for whole books: the book’s own chapters, a start past the front matter, page clutter left out of PDFs.
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265 narrators in 42 languages, and 70,000 free classics ready to play.
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Paid plans from $4.99 a month.
Notes on the comparison
Prices in USD from the vendor pricing page on 2026-10-07 ($11/month, or $99/year = $8.25/month).
Pricing page: “audio files can’t be exported from the app”; the vendor FAQ says export is only on the ElevenLabs web platform, so in-app export is marked no.
App Store listing says uploads of “PDF, doc, ePub, or article link” and “other text files, docs”; DOCX and TXT are not named explicitly and are shown as not verified.
Skipping headers, footers and filler text (“Smart file imports”) is an Ultra feature.
Prices in USD from the vendor membership page on 2026-10-07; the US App Store lists different in-app prices (e.g. Plus Monthly $7.99, Premium Plus Monthly $15.99, Annual $159.99).
Audible plays audiobooks published to Audible and has no text-to-speech for your own files: its pages describe narration made by authors and publishers, not listeners. Its AI-narrated “Virtual Voice” titles are produced by authors through Kindle Direct Publishing (US beta), not by listeners.
Amazon’s Kindle app (not Audible) can read Kindle-store books aloud with the device’s own voice through Assistive Reader.
Read & Listen requires both the Kindle ebook and the Audible audiobook of the same edition.
Audio file export, voice choice, pronunciation editing and a top playback speed are not stated on the fetched pages (the App Store says only “Adjustable playback speed”).
Questions people ask
Which is cheaper, ElevenReader or Audible?
ElevenReader: Ultra $11/month or $99/year (unlimited text to audio, 150 hours of offline downloads a month); the US App Store also lists Plus at $10/month and 10/20-hour packs. Audible: Standard $8.99/month (1 audiobook a month); Premium $14.95/month or $149.50/year (12 credits) or $229.50/year (24 credits), with the all-you-can-listen catalogue. For books, Book2Speech starts free and from $4.99 a month.
Which has a better free plan, ElevenReader or Audible?
ElevenReader: Free: 10 hours of text to audio a month, no offline downloads. Audible: 30-day free trial, then a paid membership. Book2Speech’s Free plan has unlimited English listening with Standard voices.
Can I download audiobooks with ElevenReader or Audible?
ElevenReader: no audio download. Audible: not confirmed on its own pages. Book2Speech downloads an M4B with chapters and cover, or an MP3, and the Free plan includes one.