built an app that turns any article url into audio — speakeasy

hey — i built speakeasy, an ios app that converts any article url to audio. you paste a link (medium, substack, blogs, news, even twitter threads) and get natural ai audio in like 30 seconds.

built it bc i had 300+ articles saved in pocket that i never read. realised the problem wasnt time or discipline — it was that reading requires ur eyes + hands which are always busy. ears tho? free like 90% of the time.

so now i listen during commutes, walks, washing dishes. went from reading maybe 1 article a week to getting thru 8-10.

what it does:

- paste any url → audio in ~30s

- decent ai voices (not robotic)

- saves to icloud, syncs to mac

- no account needed

- free tier is 3 articles/week, pro for unlimited

launching on ph march 19. would love feedback from this community — what would make u actually use something like this?