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ElevenReader reads your books beautifully — in one voice. Lyraboo casts the whole story, so every character sounds like themselves.
Written by the Lyraboo team. Facts about ElevenReader come from its own website, checked in October 2026.
ElevenReader, from ElevenLabs, imports PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TXT and web links and reads them with a choice of over a thousand natural voices in 90+ languages, on Android, iPhone and the web. Its free plan includes 10 hours of text to audio a month, and the paid plan adds offline downloads. If you read across devices or in many languages, it is a strong choice.
| Lyraboo | ElevenReader | |
|---|---|---|
| Character voices | Yes — automatic, every book | One voice you choose |
| Phones | Android | Android, iOS, web |
| Your files | EPUB, PDF, TXT | PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TXT, links |
| Offline | No | On the paid plan |
| Free plan | 1 hour a month | 10 hours a month |
| Paid plan | Monthly $9.99 (US) | $11 a month or $99 a year |
| Languages | English best; 6 more in beta | 90+ |
Pick ElevenReader for iPhone or web, offline listening, documents and many languages. Pick Lyraboo when the book is a story and you want to hear it as a full-cast audiobook on Android. All six options we compared are in the best apps to turn your own books into audiobooks.
ElevenReader and ElevenLabs are trademarks of their respective owner. Lyraboo is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by ElevenLabs. This comparison reflects publicly available product information.
The things people notice in the first chapter — and the reasons they stay.
Lyraboo’s AI finds every character in the book and casts a distinct voice for each — automatically, for every book. You always know who is speaking, and dialogue sounds like a real conversation instead of one narrator doing all the parts. Most reading and text-to-speech apps use one voice for everything.
Under the player, the book scrolls with the voice the way song lyrics do in Spotify: words light up as they are spoken, each line shows who says it, and tapping any word jumps there.
Chapters, speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback with lock-screen controls, and it picks up exactly where you stopped.
Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT and there is nothing to set up: the first chapter is ready in about one to two minutes, and the rest generate while you listen.
Novels, fanfiction and web-serial exports, indie ebooks, study PDFs — plus over 1,000 English classics already in the app.
One free hour of listening every month, no card needed. Hours are spent once per chapter — replaying is always free.
For listening to novels on Android with a different voice for every character, Lyraboo is built for exactly that. ElevenReader is the better choice if you need iPhone or web, offline downloads, more free hours, or one of its 90+ languages.
On its site we found no automatic character voices — you choose a voice and it reads the whole text with it. Lyraboo detects the characters and casts a voice for each one.
ElevenReader’s free plan includes 10 hours a month and its paid plan is $11 a month or $99 a year, per its website. Lyraboo’s free plan is one hour a month; the Monthly plan is $9.99 in the US.
Yes. Many people keep a single-voice reader for articles and documents, and use Lyraboo for fiction.
Upload a book you own and let the app turn it into a multi-voice audiobook automatically.