Audify vs Jellypod

Audify is a free, open-source application that turns PDF, DOC and DOCX files into editable two-speaker podcast scripts and downloadable MP3 episodes. It extracts document text and can use OCR when a scanned PDF yields little text. Users review and revise speaker turns, wording and flow, choose host and guest voices, and select conversational, educational or professional tones before generating audio. Ollama is the primary script-generation route, with OpenAI as a fallback; an OpenAI API key is required for text-to-speech, while Ollama is optional. The TTS service creates speech for dialogue turns, combines it into MP3, and supports playback and download. Audify uses FastAPI microservices with a React and Vite frontend and is orchestrated for local Docker Compose deployment. Its API handles uploads, generation, job status and downloads. Docker Engine 24.x or later and Docker Compose Plugin v2 or later are required. Uploads are limited to 10 MB, and jobs reset after container restarts unless storage is added.

Jellypod uses AI to turn ideas, documents and scripts into podcasts, videos, shorts and voiceovers. Its podcast agent can research a topic or source, draft scripts for multiple hosts, generate audio and let users edit lines with changed audio regenerated. For video, it creates narrated illustrations in 16 visual styles and vertical shorts of 30 seconds or one minute with animated visuals and synchronized captions. Users can choose from more than 3,300 voices across 121 languages, design characters and clone their own voice. Each podcast show includes a hosted website and RSS feed for distribution to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Developers have a REST API and OpenAPI spec, plus an MCP server for AI assistants; API access is listed for Creator and higher plans. Generation uses 30 credits per audio minute, 7 per image and 20 per video clip, while rendering, publishing and downloading are free. Jellypod says users own created content and that it does not train AI models on it. Paid plans start at $25/mo billed annually; a free plan is not available, though a trial is listed.