Compare · ElevenReader vs Paper2Audio
ElevenReader vs Paper2Audio
ElevenReader: ElevenLabs’ mobile reader app that reads aloud any text, book or document with AI voices. Paper2Audio: Document-to-speech app that turns PDFs, ebooks, papers and web articles into audio, skipping page numbers, footnotes and citations. 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 Paper2Audio if…
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A generous free plan: 56 hours of new audio a week.
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Built for papers: reader view with tables, figures and math, and skips footnotes, citations and page numbers.
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Offline listening on the mobile apps, and a native Android app.
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A sleep timer that can stop at the end of a chapter or document.
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 on 2026-10-07. The pricing page shows $16/month with annual billing (“Save 20%”); the US App Store lists Plus Monthly $20.00 and Plus Annual $191.99.
Formats from the vendor FAQ: PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT, DOCX, DOC, RTF and Markdown; the App Store adds scanned documents. MOBI is absent.
Plus subscribers can download audio files, which the FAQ says are M4A (Opus); MP3 and M4B are not named, so export is shown as not verified.
The FAQ describes voices “optimized for … pronunciation accuracy” but no pronunciation editor.
Questions people ask
Which is cheaper, ElevenReader or Paper2Audio?
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. Paper2Audio: Plus $20/month or $191.99/year on the US App Store ($16/month billed annually on the pricing page): 168 hours a week, audio and transcript downloads. For books, Book2Speech starts free and from $4.99 a month.
Which has a better free plan, ElevenReader or Paper2Audio?
ElevenReader: Free: 10 hours of text to audio a month, no offline downloads. Paper2Audio: Free: 56 hours of audio generation a week, all AI voices, offline listening on the mobile apps (content may be used to improve models). Book2Speech’s Free plan has unlimited English listening with Standard voices.
Can I download audiobooks with ElevenReader or Paper2Audio?
ElevenReader: no audio download. Paper2Audio: not confirmed on its own pages. Book2Speech downloads an M4B with chapters and cover, or an MP3, and the Free plan includes one.