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NaturalReader: plans, prices, strengths and limits
NaturalReader Free reads documents aloud without limit using free device voices. Personal plans run from Lite at $13.90 a month to Plus at $20.90 and Pro at $25.90, for personal use only, and the separate NaturalReader Commercial starts at $29 a month.
Prices for United States, before sales tax Data release 2026.11.07-2, Nov 7, 2026 Rules 2.5.0
- Made by
- NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Individual plans
- 6, one free
- Paid plans
- $13.90 to $49 a month
- Facts checked
- Nov 7, 2026
Hidden gem A smaller tool fewer people know yet. We list it after the main picks for each job its maker documents; we have not tested it. How we choose them
Quick verdict
NaturalReader is two products. The personal text-to-speech reader reads documents, webpages and email aloud on the web, on iOS and Android and through a Chrome and Edge extension. Free has unlimited listening with free device voices and a small daily allowance of AI voices, but no MP3 downloads. Lite is $13.90 a month or $79 a year, with Lite voices and 1 million MP3 characters a month; it appears in the help center but not on the product page. Plus is $20.90 a month or $119 a year, adding Plus AI voices, up to 2 cloned voices and MP3 downloads. Pro is $25.90 a month or $159 a year, adding Pro HD voices from Gemini and OpenAI with prompts for tone and emotion. Yearly prices are paid up front, and personal plans have a 3-day refund guarantee.
Commercial use decides the choice. Audio from every personal plan is licensed for personal use only. For voiceovers you publish, you need the separate NaturalReader Commercial: Commercial Starter at $29 a month or $198 a year with 500,000 credits a month, or Commercial Creator at $49 a month or $297 a year with 2,000,000 credits, both with a commercial license, up to 4 voice clones and voices from Gemini, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Azure and Google. Commercial plans are non-refundable and do not include the personal apps. NaturalReader does not say whether tax is included.
For the personal reader, NaturalReader says it does not use your content to train AI models and does not show ads; the commercial pages do not repeat either statement. This verdict rests on what NaturalReader documents, not on our tests, which we have not run yet.
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Unlimited free listeningFree reads PDF, Word, EPUB and other files, webpages and email aloud without limit using free device voices, plus 20,000 characters a day with Lite voices.
- No training and no ads on the personal readerNaturalReader's personal product page says "We do not use your content to train AI models" and "We do not show ads".
- Reads your email and docs in the browserThe Chrome and Edge extension reads Gmail and Outlook messages, Google Drive and Google Docs and Kindle online, on every personal plan, Free included.
- A commercial license when you need oneCommercial Starter and Creator include "Commercially licensed audio for business, public and commercial use", MP3 or WAV downloads at 44.1 kHz and text export as txt, srt or vtt.
- Voices from several companiesPro adds Gemini and OpenAI voices to Plus's Azure voices, which cover 90+ languages. Commercial plans also offer ElevenLabs and Google voices in one app.
Limits
- Personal plans are personal use onlyPlan limit. "Audio created with a Lite, Premium EDU, Plus, Plus EDU, and Pro plan is licensed for personal use only." Publishing needs a separate Commercial subscription from $29 a month.
- No downloads on FreePlan limit. Free listens in the app only and cannot convert to MP3, and it has no OCR. MP3 downloads start on Lite at 1 million characters a month.
- NaturalReader's pages disagree on limitsConflict. For Plus and cloned voices on Free, the product page says a 5-minute daily limit and the help center says 4,000 characters a day. A 2026 pricing article allows 2 personal voice clones; a 2025 article says 1.
- Commercial is a separate appWorkflow limit. Commercial plans run in a browser-based web app only, without the personal apps or the Chrome extension, and are non-refundable. Unused credits do not carry over.
- Training on commercial plans not verifiedNot verified. The no-training statement is on the personal product page; the commercial pages do not repeat it, and do not say whether ads are shown.
Based on what NaturalSoft Ltd. documents for each plan, not on our tests.
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- Listening to documents, webpages and email instead of reading them, free
- Downloading MP3s of articles or books for your own listening, on Lite, Plus or Pro
- Voiceovers for videos or courses you publish, on Commercial Starter or Creator
- Readers who want their documents kept out of AI training
Look elsewhere if you
- Publishing audio made on a personal plan: personal use only
- Downloading audio on Free: no MP3 conversion
- Dubbing existing audio or video: not documented
- Transcription or dictation: NaturalReader turns text into speech
Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| NaturalReader Free | Free | Nov 7, 2026 | |
| NaturalReader LiteYearly: $79.00 USD a year, billed upfront. | $13.90 a month | $79 a year | Nov 7, 2026 Source |
| NaturalReader PlusYearly: $119 USD for 12 months, billed annually ($9.92/month shown). | $20.90 a month | $119 a year | Nov 7, 2026 Source |
| NaturalReader ProYearly: $159 USD for 12 months, billed annually ($13.25/month shown). | $25.90 a month | $159 a year | Nov 7, 2026 Source |
| NaturalReader Commercial StarterYearly: $198 USD per year ($16.50/month, billed annually). | $29 a month | $198 a year | Nov 7, 2026 Source |
| NaturalReader Commercial CreatorYearly: $297 USD per year ($24.75/month, billed annually). | $49 a month | $297 a year | Nov 7, 2026 Source |
Prices for United States, before sales tax unless a plan says otherwise. A yearly plan is paid up front and is not cancel-any-time.
Features by plan
What NaturalSoft Ltd. documents for each plan. A hatched mark means we could not verify it, which is not the same as "not offered".
| Feature | NaturalReader Free | NaturalReader Lite | NaturalReader Plus | NaturalReader Pro | NaturalReader Commercial Starter | NaturalReader Commercial Creator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Models and limits | ||||||
| Top models included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Context window | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Models from several companies | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| General-purpose assistant | No | No | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
| Research and sources | ||||||
| Web search with sources | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Deep research reports | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Files and data | ||||||
| Spreadsheet and data analysis | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Images, video and voice | ||||||
| Real-time voice | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Music, voice and transcription | ||||||
| Voiceover from text | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Voice cloning | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dubbing into other languages | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Writing and slides | ||||||
| Grammar and spelling checks | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes |
| Paraphrasing and tone changes | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes |
| Projects and memory | ||||||
| Projects | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Custom assistants | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Memory across chats | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Integrations and agents | ||||||
| Connectors to other apps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Gmail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Inside Google Docs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Inside Google Sheets | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Word | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Excel | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside PowerPoint | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Outlook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Privacy and control | ||||||
| Opt out of model training | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Unclear |
| Export your data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shows ads | No | No | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
| Rights and licensing | ||||||
| Commercial use of outputs | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Apps and extras | ||||||
| Cloud storage included | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Apps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Usage included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The details and sources of every row are in Compare two AIs and the data release.
What it documents for each use
- Writing & Content Fix grammar and tone in my writing
- Business & Productivity Use AI inside Gmail · Connect AI to the apps I already use · Use AI inside Google Docs · Use AI inside Outlook
- Audio & Voice Turn a script into a voiceover · Use a copy of my own voice
A use is listed when at least one plan documents every feature a task needs. Answer quality is a separate question: see below.
Using it day to day
A personal subscription covers the web app, iOS and Android apps and the Chrome extension; ReadAI, which chats about an uploaded document, summarizes it and makes podcasts, recaps and quizzes, is web only and answers only about that document. Free: unlimited device voices, 20,000 Lite characters a day and a small shared allowance for Plus and cloned voices. Lite: unlimited Lite-voice listening, 1 million MP3 characters a month, OCR and ReadAI, with no Plus, Pro or cloned voices. Plus: 500,000 characters a day with Plus and cloned voices, plus 1 million MP3 characters a month with those voices and another 1 million with Lite voices. Pro: the same limits, shared with Pro voices.
The Library keeps uploaded documents up to 1 year and MP3s 30 days. Clones on personal plans take 50 to 90 seconds of audio and count 2 characters per character. NaturalReader Commercial is a browser app where you write scripts, with an AI Script Assistant that revises, rephrases, checks grammar and translates. Credits per character vary by voice model, for example 1 to 2 for Gemini, and active subscribers can buy extra credits.
Privacy, data and ads
On the personal reader, NaturalReader says it does not use your content to train AI models and does not show ads. The commercial pages repeat neither statement, so training and ads there are not verified. You can download PDF copies of library documents and export annotations and notes on personal plans, and MP3s on paid plans. Uploaded documents stay in the Library for up to 1 year. Commercial plans let you clone only voices you own or have permission to use.
Read the vendor's own page: NaturalReader privacy and data controls. We make no legal or compliance claim.
Test results
We have not tested NaturalReader yet, so this page makes no claim about answer quality, and we show no example outputs. Run the same kit in it and in the alternatives, in your own account:
- Summarize a report with traceable facts
- Analyze a spreadsheet and get the numbers right
- Edit an email without losing a detail
- Diagnose and repair a small program
- Research a question with sources that support the answer
- Make sense of documents that disagree
- Research a current question within a date window
- Edit an article without changing its facts
- Turn project notes into a report that agrees with itself
- Implement a small specification
- Refactor code without changing what it does
- Make a picture that follows a detailed brief
- Put exact text into a graphic
- Change one thing in a picture and nothing else
- Make a short clip that follows a brief
- Make a song that sings your lyrics exactly
- Read a script with names, numbers and abbreviations
- Design a logo with an exact name
Getting started
- Start on NaturalReader Free in the web app or the Chrome extension and listen to a few documents with the free voices.
- Decide who will hear the audio. If it is only you, a personal plan works; if you will publish it, go straight to NaturalReader Commercial.
- For MP3s of your own reading, choose Lite ($79 a year) or, for AI and cloned voices, Plus ($119 a year), paid up front.
- For voiceovers, start with Commercial Starter at $29 a month, since commercial plans are non-refundable.
- Compare voice tools on our tools page, and read how we check vendor claims.
Your fit
Tell Find my AI what you do and what matters; it checks every plan of NaturalReader against your priorities, next to the alternatives.
Alternatives
- ElevenLabs ElevenLabs Starter, at $6 a month before tax, includes a commercial license with about 30 minutes of speech a month and Instant Voice Cloning, and offers a toggle to stop your data being used for training. About ElevenLabs
- Auphonic If you record your own voice instead of generating one, Auphonic levels, cleans and masters spoken audio, and Auphonic Free includes 2 hours of processing a month. About Auphonic
Recent changes
- NaturalReader Commercial Creator added
- NaturalReader Commercial Starter added
- NaturalReader Pro added
- NaturalReader Plus added
- NaturalReader Lite added
- NaturalReader Free added
Every change is in the change log.
Questions
Is NaturalReader free?
Yes. NaturalReader Free gives unlimited listening with free device voices, 20,000 characters a day with Lite voices and a small daily allowance of AI and cloned voices. It cannot download MP3s.
How much does NaturalReader cost?
Personal plans are Lite at $13.90 a month or $79 a year, Plus at $20.90 a month or $119 a year, and Pro at $25.90 a month or $159 a year. NaturalReader Commercial is $29 a month or $198 a year for Starter, and $49 a month or $297 a year for Creator.
Can I use NaturalReader audio commercially?
Not from a personal plan: audio from Lite, Plus and Pro is licensed for personal use only. NaturalReader Commercial Starter and Creator include commercially licensed audio for business, public and commercial use.
What is the difference between NaturalReader Plus and Pro?
Pro adds Pro HD voices powered by Gemini and OpenAI, with Reading Styles prompts for tone and emotion. Both include Plus voices, up to 2 cloned voices, MP3 downloads, OCR and full ReadAI.
Can NaturalReader clone my voice?
Yes. Plus and Pro allow up to 2 cloned voices from 50 to 90 seconds of audio (an older article says 1), and Commercial plans allow up to 4. Free lists voice cloning within a small daily allowance.
Does NaturalReader train AI on my documents?
Not on the personal reader: NaturalReader says it does not use your content to train AI models. The commercial pages do not repeat this, so it is not verified there.
Sources
12 official pages, checked Nov 7, 2026. This page was written by the What the tech desk with AI assistance from the facts in our data release; no company paid for or reviewed it.
- Voices, Languages, and TTS Limits (Personal Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Exploring ReadAI (Personal Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- NaturalReader AI Text to Speech (personal) product and pricing pageNaturalSoft Ltd.
- Plans & Pricing (Personal Version) | NaturalReader Help CenterNaturalSoft Ltd.
- Reading Emails (Chrome Extension)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Reading with Google Drive and Google Docs (Chrome Extension)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- What features are available in NaturalReader AI Text to Speech (Personal Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Managing the Library (Personal Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Voices, Models, and Credits (Commercial Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- Plans & Pricing (Commercial Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- What features are available in NaturalReader AI Voice Generator (Commercial Version)NaturalSoft Ltd.
- NaturalReader AI Voice Generator (commercial) product and pricing pageNaturalSoft Ltd.
About this page
- Published by
- What the tech, Helsinki, Finland
- Author
- What the tech
- Reviewed by
- Peyman Khosravani
- Review scope
- Checked that this page matches the facts in data release 2026.11.07-2: a check against documented sources, not a hands-on test of the product.
- Evidence
- Facts documented by each company, each linked to its official source and dated. Test results appear only where an editor ran the test.
- Data release
- 2026.11.07-2, Nov 7, 2026
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