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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.
Read and edit the whole script before a single word is spoken.

Apple Silicon · no account · runs offline

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

Hear one, 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 voices, mix, export. Nothing was touched by hand afterwards.

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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. 1 Add your text
  2. 2 Review & edit the script
  3. 3 Get your episode

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 Ollama and Piper. 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 and start it, and pulls a model — so "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

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 €XX free while in beta (€XX once at launch) — 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, file you own. Built to produce an episode, not skim one. See the full comparison →

Make your first episode tonight.

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