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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from NaturalReader's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 19, 2026.
NaturalReader pricing
NaturalReader's cheapest paid plan is Personal Lite at $13.90 a month billed monthly, or $6.58 a month billed yearly. The free plan: The personal reader is free with no card: unlimited listening in basic device voices (not AI), 20,000 characters a day in Lite AI voices and 4,000 in Plus and cloned voices (the pricing card calls it 5 minutes a day), no MP3 downloads and no OCR. The commercial AI Voice Generator lets a free account sample every voice for up to 10,000 characters a day, but downloads need a paid plan.
Free plan: The personal reader is free with no card: unlimited listening in basic device voices (not AI), 20,000 characters a day in Lite AI voices and 4,000 in Plus and cloned voices (the pricing card calls it 5 minutes a day), no MP3 downloads and no OCR. The commercial AI Voice Generator lets a free account sample every voice for up to 10,000 characters a day, but downloads need a paid plan.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Free | free | free | The reader on web, iOS, Android and Chrome with no card: unlimited listening in Free (device) voices, 20,000 characters a day in Lite voices and 4,000 in Plus and cloned voices, limited ReadAI, annotations and the pronunciation editor (the pricing card also lists voice cloning); no MP3 downloads or OCR; personal use only |
| Personal Lite | $13.90 | $6.58 | $13.90 billed monthly or $79 billed yearly; formerly called Premium. Unlimited listening in Lite AI voices, 1 million MP3 characters a month in Lite voices, OCR, AI Smart Filter, annotations and ReadAI features; no Plus or Pro voices and no voice cloning; personal use only |
| Personal Plus | $20.90 | $9.92 | $20.90 billed monthly or $119 billed yearly. Everything in Lite plus 500,000 characters a day of listening in Plus and cloned voices, 1 million MP3 characters a month in Lite voices and another 1 million shared by Plus and cloned voices, cloning of up to 2 voices and full ReadAI; personal use only |
| Personal Pro | $25.90 | $13.25 | $25.90 billed monthly or $159 billed yearly. Everything in Plus, with the daily 500,000 characters and monthly 1 million MP3 characters shared by Plus, cloned and Pro voices: HD Gemini and OpenAI voices with Reading Styles prompts for tone, emotion and accent; personal use only |
| Personal EDU (group) | not listed | not listed | Billed yearly only, for schools: Plus EDU from $299 a year for 5 users to $1,500 for 50 (then from $25 a user a year), Lite EDU from $599 a year for 50 users to $3,300 for 2,000, and Lite site licences from $3,300 a year; admin tools and a shared class library, with a 30-day free trial; audio still for private listening only |
| Commercial Free | free | free | AI Voice Generator free account with no card: sample every voice and feature for up to 10,000 characters a day; downloading audio needs a paid plan |
| Commercial Starter | $29 | $16.50 | $29 billed monthly or $198 billed yearly, one user: 500,000 credits a month (1 to 20 per character depending on the voice), commercial licence, Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs voices, prompt control, 90+ languages, voice cloning, AI Script Assistant, pronunciation editor and MP3 or WAV downloads at 44.1 kHz |
| Commercial Creator | $49 | $24.75 | $49 billed monthly or $297 billed yearly, one user: 2 million credits a month and everything in Starter |
| Commercial Team | $33 | $16 | Per user, at least 2 users: $33 a user billed monthly or $192 a user billed yearly ($384 a year for two); 2 million credits a user a month, pooled across the team (4 million for two), a shared library and team management; everything in Starter |
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us, and the vendor does not publish an allowance we can divide by. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-10-19 on NaturalReader's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 19, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
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Before you pay
- Personal and commercial are separate products with separate subscriptions. Audio from Lite, Plus, Pro and EDU plans is for the subscriber's private listening only: no YouTube, podcasts, e-learning, training videos or classroom use, even internal or non-profit, which needs the AI Voice Generator; a subscription to one does not include the other.
- Lite, the cheapest plan, is easy to miss: the product page's pricing section shows only Free, Plus and Pro, while Lite ($13.90 a month or $79 a year) is listed in the help center and sold in the web app's upgrade screen. The US App Store sells Premium, Lite's former name, at $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year, and Plus and Pro at the web prices; the help center says app-store prices may vary by region.
- Commercial credits do not convert to minutes: they are counted per character at 1 to 20 credits a character depending on the voice, so Starter's 500,000 monthly credits read 500,000 characters on an OpenAI or Azure voice but 25,000 on an ElevenLabs HD voice. Included credits do not roll over, and every re-generation after an edit is charged again.
- Commercial subscriptions are non-refundable (exceptions are at NaturalSoft's discretion), so try the free account first: it plays every voice but cannot download. Personal plans bought on the website can be refunded on request within 3 days of purchase or renewal (monthly) or 7 days (yearly), never prorated after that; App Store and Google Play purchases follow the stores' own refund rules. All plans renew automatically until cancelled.
- The free reader is tight on AI voices: 20,000 characters a day in Lite voices and 4,000 in Plus and cloned voices, with no MP3s or OCR, and ZDNET's tester found the free standard voices paced awkwardly and made pronunciation mistakes. Paid plans cap Plus and Pro listening at 500,000 characters a day, and MP3 conversion at 1 million characters a month in Lite voices plus, on Plus and Pro, another 1 million in the better voices.
- NaturalReader's help pages disagree on details: commercial articles still refer to a 'default 6 million' monthly credit allotment, while no current plan gives a user more than 2 million (Starter 500,000, Creator 2 million, Team 2 million a user), price Gemini voices at 1 credit a character in one article and 1 to 2 in another, and allow 5 cloned voices in one and 4 in the other; for the personal reader, the cloning article allows 1 cloned voice per user and the plans article up to 2.
- The personal library keeps uploaded documents for up to a year and audio files for up to a month, so download anything you want to keep.
- The desktop software page still shows one-time licences from $99.50 to $199.50 with Order Now buttons, but NaturalSoft's subscription agreement, effective July 25, 2026, says new sales of the standalone software have been discontinued and existing licences get no promise of updates, new voices or support.
See the full NaturalReader review and how we research.
Sources
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