For audiobook narrators
Press record once. Read the line, press next. Your chapter is done when you are.
Relato keeps your place in the manuscript and keeps the last read of every line. You read, it sorts. No retakes left to cut out afterwards.
- Free for auditions
- Pay once, no subscription
- Mac, iPhone and iPad
Where the hours go
You came to read. Most of the hours go to everything around the reading.
Every keystroke counts
Stop, rewind, find your place, punch in. Small actions, repeated all book long, on a voice that is tired by day two.
The script lives somewhere else
A PDF on a second screen, a recorder in another window. Switching between them gets into the recording.
The fluffs stay in the file
A long raw recording full of false starts, and hours of listening to find and remove them.
The method
One line at a time. One file per chapter.
Relato is built around one way of working, and nothing else.
Open your manuscript
Headings become chapters, each line of text a line to read. Before you record, Relato reads it first: names go into a pronunciation list, and long sentences are flagged.
Read from a large, dark prompter
The current line is lit; the rest stays quiet. Built to be read from across the booth.
Next or again — one key each
Got it? Next. Fluffed it? Again: the line starts over and the last read wins. One key each, so your eyes stay on the text.
Export clean chapters
One audio file per chapter, every line in order, the retakes already gone, room tone at the start and end. Ready for your editing and mastering.
Your way of reading
Fix as you go, or read straight through.
Fix as you go
Press again the moment a line goes wrong. Relato keeps only the read you moved on from.
Read straight through
Keep the performance flowing and press next at each line. Nothing forces you to stop.
Your voice stays yours
Your recordings never leave your device.
Nothing uploaded
Relato records and exports on your Mac, iPhone or iPad. No upload, no cloud processing.
No AI voice
Relato records you. It does not generate, clone or train on voices.
Works offline
Reading, recording and exporting need no internet connection.
Pricing
Free to audition. Pay once to record the book.
Free
€0
Up to 10 minutes of exported audio per project — enough for an audition.
Early access
€29
One payment. Every update up to and including version 2.0.
From version 1.0
€69
One payment for the current and the next major version.
Bought through the App Store. No subscription, no price per hour of audio.
Founding narrators and podcasters
Record a chapter or an episode with us before anyone else.
We are looking for a few working narrators and podcasters to record a chapter or an episode with an early build and tell us what gets in the way. What you find decides what Relato does next. Join the waitlist and tell us what you record — we will write to you.
FAQ
Questions narrators ask
When can I use it?
Relato is in development. Everyone on the waitlist hears first when early access opens. We do not give a date we cannot keep.
Which devices?
Mac, iPhone and iPad, through the App Store.
Does it master to ACX specs?
Not in the first version. Relato gives you clean chapter files with room tone; your mastering chain stays yours.
Which manuscript formats?
Plain text and Markdown, with headings as chapters. Word documents during early access.
Is it in Spanish?
The Spanish interface comes during early access. You can read a Spanish manuscript from the first version.
What happens to my email address?
We use it only to tell you about Relato, and delete it when you ask.
Be among the first to read with Relato.
One email when early access opens. Nothing else.
Relato — by Sombra Audio. Made in Granada, Spain.