“While I think the voices they have are great, I didn't want to bother with an account, a subscription, and yet another service interested in my content habits.”
hallh, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
ElevenReader wants an account and $11 a month to read you an article. Storytella does it inside your browser tab, with no account and nobody watching what you read.
Canva Pro wants a monthly fee to remove a background. Cutora does it in your browser and asks for nothing.
“While Canva keeps useful tools behind Pro plans, Cutora keeps image editing simple, fast, and accessible.”
Speechify charges $29 a month to read text out loud. Earful reads your PDFs, books and photos of pages aloud on your own device, for nothing.
“The popular reading apps lock the basics behind a subscription of around $139 a year.”
Final Draft Suite bills $16.99 a month to put a slugline in the right place. Unsubbed Script does industry page format in a browser tab, reads your .fdx and charges nothing.
“Subscriptions keep rising for tools people use a few times a month.”
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