Listnr Review, Pricing & Alternatives (2026)

Listnr is a small company registered in Delaware and run by founder and chief executive Ananay Batra, who launched it in September 2020 as a text-to-podcast tool. Users mostly turned it into a voiceover generator for YouTube videos, so Listnr repositioned around AI voiceovers. In 2022 it added Listnr.fm, a podcast recording and hosting product, and Batra wrote that the business had reached 20,000 users and $600,000 in trailing revenue that September. The company now claims millions of users across 200 countries. It won a Product Hunt Golden Kitty award in 2021 and sold lifetime deals through AppSumo, which brought in many early customers. Today the main product is Listnr Studio, a browser workspace for scripting and exporting narration, cloned voices and audiobooks.

Listnr Studio works like a document editor. You paste or write a script, split it into blocks, choose a voice for each block and generate audio you can preview line by line. Style prompts and emotion tags such as angry, warm or calm change the delivery where the selected voice supports them, and pronunciation and pause settings fix awkward phrasing. Finished audio exports as MP3 or WAV, or as an embeddable player for blogs and websites. Voice cloning creates a copy of your own voice from approved recordings for consistent narration. Paid plans add video exports, so you can pair narration with visuals. A text-to-speech API lets developers send text from their own apps, and translation tools help produce versions in other languages.

Listnr does not publish details about building its own speech model. Its library of more than 1,000 voices brings together voices from several leading speech engines under one interface, and the homepage presents them as a single catalog of what it calls ultra-realistic voices. The practical result is breadth: more than 140 languages and accents, from regional English variants to less common languages, which is wider than many single-model services. Quality varies by voice, because different underlying engines handle emotion and pronunciation differently. Recent updates focused on expressive delivery controls and audiobook production, where long manuscripts are split into chapters and narrated in one project. The company's blog and changelog do not list named model releases the way ElevenLabs or Cartesia do.

Listnr bills in credits, and its pricing page says two months are free on yearly plans. The free account includes 1,000 credits to start, enough to preview voices and test the studio, with no credit card. Individual costs $19 a month, or $190 a year, for 20,000 credits, about two hours of generated speech, plus commercial rights, unlimited downloads, 50 GB of storage and 50 videos a month. Solo costs $39 a month ($390 a year) for 50,000 credits, about five hours, with 100 GB of storage and 150 videos. Agency costs $99 a month ($990 a year) for 250,000 credits, roughly 25 hours. Extra credits can be bought inside the studio. Custom plans add seat licences, dedicated API throughput, SSO and volume pricing for publishers and agencies.

Listnr's credit allowance is modest for the price: Individual's two hours a month costs more per minute than ElevenLabs' comparable plans, and quality depends on which voice you pick. Reviews on Product Hunt include complaints from 2024 and 2025 about slow or missing support, particularly from lifetime deal buyers, so test support before committing to an annual plan. Murf AI offers a more polished studio with team collaboration and slide sync for corporate video. ElevenLabs has stronger voice cloning, dubbing and its own models. Speechify Studio covers similar voiceover and dubbing needs. Pick Listnr if you need narration in an unusual language or accent and want many voices in one browser workspace with embeddable audio players. Pick ElevenLabs or Murf if voice quality and support matter more than breadth.