App Needs Work
Response from developer
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. You’re right that long-form cloned speech is one of the hardest parts of this kind of fully on-device voice generation, especially from very short samples. Speaklone 1.3 includes improvements for long-form and section-based generation that should help audiobook-style projects, particularly when working chapter by chapter or section by section. The app runs locally on your Mac, so quality depends on the open voice models available today. They’re powerful, but not perfect yet. As better local models become available, I plan to add them. If you try 1.3 and still run into issues, I’d genuinely appreciate hearing more at dylan@dylanmalone.com
Really awesome
Hoping to maybe see integrations, what kind? Not sure yet as I’m thinking of what this app can do given the flagship price, it could be a flagship offering.
Will update this review as I use it.
Response from developer
Thanks so much for your support! So much more to come for this app. You're exactly right that the intention is to add models to the supported list over time, though sparingly, as I'd rather put the engineering into making great features and UX and then adding a new model family from time to time when there's a substantive jump. I hope you come to feel it was a bargain over time... back to work for me! (you may already know this, but the macOS version is included - it's a universal app - so if you have a Mac, try that too, because of the increased memory on that platform it's even better).
Phenomenal
Did the Unthinkable—Upgraded My OS for This
It’s still early-stage, sure—but you can feel where it’s going. There’s a ton of potential here, and more importantly, the developer is clearly in it. Present, responsive, engaged… the kind of thing you don’t take for granted anymore.
When I first went to grab it, I hit a wall. It required Mac OS 26—and I was still on Sequoia.
Now, if you know me, you know I don’t jump to a new OS quickly. I give it months. Let everyone else deal with the bugs, the weird quirks… I’ll come in later when it’s stable.
But this one stuck with me.
I kept coming back to it. Thinking about it. Knowing it could genuinely help with what I’m building… and eventually I hit that point where I just couldn’t ignore it anymore.
So I reached out to the developer (again—super responsive), had a quick conversation, and then did something I never do:
I upgraded.
Even with a few things I’m still not totally sold on with the OS… I’d do it again in a heartbeat just for this.
If you’re even remotely in need of something like this, don’t overthink it. It’s an absolute steal right now for what it is—and more importantly, for what it’s clearly becoming.
Grab it.
Amazing value for money
Fantastic TTS
Best Indie Local TTS in the Market
(to be continued…)
Shoutout to Dylan for making this wonderful app!
Nice but…
Response from developer
Thank you for the review, I'm trying to expand that character count further now. While the preset voices have no hard limit, cloned voices use much more memory due to the nature of the in context learning system that makes real time cloning work. The memory budget on iOS is tight. On macOS (which you also own, it's a universal app, everyone gets both), there is no limit. I'm going to expand this limit as far as I can without causing instability. For devices with > 8GB of memory, in particular, I am hoping to push this a lot further. (also, adding a render in pieces option to workaround the limit for others). So many improvements coming soon. I think you'll be pleased with the progress to ensure this remains the absolute state of the art for local speech technology on Apple Silicon.
Nice but…
Give Your Openclaw Agent A Voice
Simply Amazing
Response from developer
Thank you! Building this as a solo developer, so this means a lot. More to come.