A macOS studio for spoken word

Turn any text, into a podcast worth hearing.

Aludel turns files, links, or pasted words into a natural conversation — on your Mac, with cloud or fully-local providers.
Edit the whole script before a single word is spoken, then publish straight to your own podcast feed.

Download for macOSfree Hear a demo

Apple Silicon · no account · runs offline

zsh

$ brew install totanus/aludel/aludel
$ aludel article.md --lang it
→ article.mp3

Also a command-line tool, for scripting

Aludel's script editor: an editable two-voice dialogue shown before synthesis, with voice and format options in a side panel

Hear it, start to finish.

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-voice dialogue, mix, export. Nothing was touched by hand afterwards.

Source a PDF book Voices two, cloud TTS Length 13:02 Made in Aludel

Script by Claude Sonnet, voices by Gemini Flash TTS — both via OpenRouter.

The Robot That Never Gets to Be the Boss demo · MP3

A simple path. You stay in control.

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.

1 Add your text
2 Review & edit the script
3 Get your episode
4 Publish to your feed

Add your content

Feed it anything you can read.

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.

Aludel's ingest screen with a drop zone for files, a URL field, and a paste option

Long sources Experimental

Books split into chapters, automatically.

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.

Aludel's chapter-selection dialog listing detected chapters of a book with checkboxes

You stay in control

The script is the checkpoint.

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.

Aludel's editable chat-style script with speaker bubbles you can edit inline

Your finished episode

Listen, with the transcript in sync.

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.

Aludel's player with a waveform and a synced transcript highlighting the current line

Cloud, or entirely on your machine.

Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or ElevenLabs keys — or run the whole pipeline offline with a local model (Ollama or Osaurus) and Piper voices. No account, no lock-in, no per-minute meter. Aludel guides the setup either way.

Guided setup

Local models, walked through.

Aludel detects Ollama — helps you install it, start it, and pull a model — or connects to Osaurus, the native Apple-Silicon (MLX) server, and lists its models. Either way, "run it all locally, for free" is a few clicks, not a terminal session.

Aludel's onboarding step for setting up the local Ollama model

Your providers

Swap any model or voice.

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.

Aludel's Services settings listing configured LLM and TTS providers

From finished episode to published podcast.

Distribution Channels (Pro) turn Aludel into your whole publishing chain: your episodes, your server, your feed — no hosting platform in between.

Your server, your feed

Point a channel at any server you control — SFTP, rsync, or FTPS, with a one-click connection test. Aludel uploads the audio and generates valid podcast RSS. Nothing passes through us.

Toggle, sync, live

Finished episodes join their channel automatically, switched off. Flip the ones you want public and hit Sync — unpublishing pulls an episode from the feed without touching your files.

Ready for Apple & Spotify

Four feeds per channel — everything, plus one each for Podcast, Summary, and Audiobook — with generated cover art. Submit the URL once to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and you're live.

Built like a tool, not a toy.

Honest by design

Cost estimates before you spend a cent. Progress that reflects real work, not spinner theater. Errors named plainly, in words.

Language-decoupled

Feed it English, get Italian. The model writes directly in your output language in one pass — no translate-then-speak detour.

Private & offline

With local providers nothing leaves your Mac. No account, no telemetry, no servers of ours in the loop.

One-time, not a subscription

Free forever running locally. Pro is free while in beta — a perpetual license, not a monthly meter. See Free & Pro →

NotebookLM helps you understand.

Load sources, ask questions, get a quick audio overview. Great for studying — cloud-only, no editing, fixed voices.

Aludel helps you publish.

Editable script, your choice of voice and model, offline-capable — and a real podcast feed on your own server at the end. See the full comparison →

Make your first episode tonight.

Aludel is in open beta. Download it free, and unlock Pro anytime from Settings — pay what you want, including nothing, no card required.

Download for macOSv0.41.0

macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · 32 MB · v0.41.0 — What's new