The book you want has no audiobook? Make one.
Public-domain classics, out-of-print gems, niche and academic titles, your own ebooks — turn any text into an audiobook you can actually listen to, even when no one ever recorded one. No subscription. No app. Just the file.
Audible has the bestsellers. It does not have the 1890 treatise you're finally reading, the out-of-print novel you tracked down as a PDF, the niche academic title in your field, or the translation only three people have heard of. For most of what's ever been written, there is simply no audiobook — and there never will be, because it isn't worth a studio's time.
Harkable makes it worth yours. Drop in the text — a public-domain download, an ebook you own, a PDF — pick a voice, and it turns the whole thing into an MP3 audiobook you can play on a walk, a commute, or before sleep. Long books are exactly what it's built for: it processes them in sections and hands you clean audio, no studio required.
Use it with material you have the right to: public-domain works (Project Gutenberg and the like), books you own, or text you're free to use. Pay-as-you-go, no subscription — you pay once for the book you finally get to hear, credits never expire, and there's no monthly fee sitting there between reads.
The books people finally get to hear
Public-domain classics with no good audio
The philosophy, history, or literature that's free on Project Gutenberg but has no decent audiobook. Convert the text and listen to the classic you've been meaning to get to for years.
Out-of-print and rare books
You tracked down the out-of-print title as a PDF or scan-to-text. No one will ever record it commercially — so record it yourself, in a voice you like, and finally listen.
Niche, academic, and technical titles
The specialist book in your field that sells a few thousand copies and will never see a studio. Turn it into audio and get through it on your commute instead of never.
Translations and small-press books
The translation, the small-press release, the indie title with no audio edition. If you have the text, you can have the audiobook.
Your own ebook library
The ebooks you already own but wish you could listen to. Convert them for the times you'd rather have your eyes and hands free.
What a book typically costs
Short works are often free (two MP3s a month included). A full-length book is a bigger job — priced by length, in sections — but it's a one-time cost from a credit pack starting at $5 that never expires, for an audiobook that otherwise wouldn't exist at all. No subscription, and you only pay for the books you actually convert.
What Harkable doesn't do
- A library of published audiobooks — for bestsellers that already have one, Audible or your library's Libby is the right tool.
- Converting books you don't have the right to use — this is for public-domain works, books you own, or text you're free to use.
- A dramatized, multi-voice production — it's a clean, natural single narrator, not a cast recording.
- OCR on scanned, image-only pages — we read text-based files, so a scanned image of a page needs to be text first.
Try Harkable free
2 free MP3s every month, forever. No card required. Pay only when you want more, credits start at $5 and never expire.
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