Honest by design
Cost estimates before you spend a cent. Progress that reflects real work, not spinner theater. Errors named plainly, in words.
A macOS studio for spoken word
Aludel turns files, links, or pasted words into a natural
conversation — on your Mac, with cloud or fully-local providers.
Read and edit the whole script before a single word is spoken.
Apple Silicon · no account · runs offline
This episode was made entirely in Aludel from a chapter of a single 300-page open-access book (Free Robot Labour by Jamie Terence Kelly) — ingest, script, two voices, mix, export. Nothing was touched by hand afterwards.
No settings maze, no wall of options. Add your text, read and tweak the two-voice script, and you get a finished episode — Aludel takes care of everything in between.
Add your content
A .txt, .md, .html or PDF
file, a URL, or pasted text. Drop it in and Aludel extracts clean,
readable content — even from a 300-page book.
Long sources Experimental
Drop a whole book and Aludel reads its outline, detects the chapters, and offers to split it into separate episodes — pick the ones you want. Still experimental: detection works best on books with a proper table of contents.
You stay in control
Read and edit the full two-voice dialogue before synthesis — rewrite a line, cut a tangent, change a speaker. The cheapest place to fix quality is before the audio exists, so that's where Aludel puts you.
Your finished episode
The finished episode plays with a waveform and a transcript that highlights the line being spoken — click to seek. Export MP3 or WAV with proper metadata. The file is yours.
Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or ElevenLabs keys — or run the whole pipeline offline with Ollama and Piper. No account, no lock-in, no per-minute meter. Aludel guides the setup either way.
Guided setup
Aludel detects Ollama, helps you install and start it, and pulls a model — so "run it all locally, for free" is a few clicks, not a terminal session.
Your providers
Every LLM and voice is interchangeable. Configure them once in Services; a badge shows each voice's license so you know what's safe to publish.
Cost estimates before you spend a cent. Progress that reflects real work, not spinner theater. Errors named plainly, in words.
Feed it English, get Italian. The model writes directly in your output language in one pass — no translate-then-speak detour.
With local providers nothing leaves your Mac. No account, no telemetry, no servers of ours in the loop.
Free forever running locally. Pro is €XX free while in beta
(€XX once at launch) — a perpetual license, not a monthly meter.
See Free & Pro →
Aludel is in open beta. Download it free, and request a free, renewable beta key to try the Pro voices — no charge, no card.
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · 28 MB · v0.24.0 — What's new