Glipsy
A cheaper Speechify alternative for the browser
Prices and features checked September 30, 2026
Speechify is big. Over a thousand voices, celebrity voices, PDFs, ebooks, a synced library, apps on every device. Premium is $29 a month, or $139 a year. If you want all of that, get it.
Glipsy does two things. It reads any text on any page out loud, lighting up each word as it's spoken. And it lets you talk instead of type, in any text field. Chrome and Firefox. Free to start, $3 a month after, billed monthly.
Side by side
| Speechify | Glipsy | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Premium $29 a month, or $139 a year | Plus $3 a month, Pro $6 a month |
| Billing | Annual plan renews at $139 | Monthly, cancel any time |
| Free plan | Basic voices, speed capped at 1.5x | Free to start, same voice as paid |
| Word highlighting | Yes | Yes, click a word to jump |
| Chrome | Yes | Yes |
| Firefox | No extension | Yes |
| Voice typing | Yes, Chrome and desktop apps | Yes, any text field, Chrome and Firefox |
| Voices | 1,000+ in 60+ languages, celebrity voices | One natural voice |
| PDFs, ebooks, scanning, library | Yes | No |
| Phone and desktop apps | iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows | Browser only |
| Reads code sensibly | Symbol by symbol | Spoken as words on DeepSeek, Kimi and T3 Chat |
| Upsells | Studio, AI voices and more sold separately | Two features, two plans |
Pick Speechify if
- You read on your phone, or want your library to follow you across devices.
- You need PDFs, textbooks or scanned pages read to you.
- You want many voices and languages, or a celebrity reading your emails.
Pick Glipsy if
- Most of what you read is on web pages and in AI chats.
- You use Firefox.
- You want read aloud and dictation for a few dollars, and nothing else.
- You'd rather pay monthly than get surprised by a $139 renewal.
How Glipsy works
- Select any text on any page and double-tap Shift. A natural voice reads it, each word lights up, and you can pause or click a word to jump.
- Click into any text field, double-tap Shift, talk, double-tap again. The words land with punctuation.
- On DeepSeek, Kimi and T3 Chat, every reply gets a read-aloud button and code blocks are read as words.
Questions
Is there a cheaper alternative to Speechify?
Glipsy is free to start, then $3 a month for Plus or $6 for Pro, billed monthly. Speechify Premium is $29 a month, or $139 a year.
Does Speechify have a Firefox extension?
No. Speechify's own site says there's no Firefox extension. Glipsy has one, alongside the Chrome extension.
Does Glipsy highlight words like Speechify?
Yes. Each word lights up as it's spoken, and you can click a word to jump there. That's the part people with ADHD or dyslexia tend to care about most, and it's in the free plan.
What does Speechify have that Glipsy doesn't?
A lot. Over a thousand voices, PDFs and ebooks, scanning, a synced library, AI summaries, phone apps, voice cloning. Glipsy does two things and stops there.
Speechify is a trademark of its owner. Glipsy is not affiliated with it. Facts above come from Speechify's public pricing and help pages as of the date shown; if something changed, tell us and we'll fix it.