When we sat down to price Misprback, the tempting move was to copy the dictation apps: one low price, "unlimited," done. We couldn't — and the reason is worth being honest about, because it shapes the whole product.
Speaking costs more than listening
Transcribing your voice into text is cheap; the marginal cost is close to nothing, which is why dictation apps can promise unlimited words. Generating a natural human voice from text is the opposite — every minute of speech is a real bill from a real model. The best studio voices cost meaningfully more than the everyday ones.
So "unlimited premium voice" at a low flat price isn't a pricing strategy — it's a slow way to go broke. And a tool that quietly bankrupts the person building it doesn't stay around to help you.
The floor is free, and it's real
Every Mac already has a capable on-device voice. It costs us nothing, works offline, and never leaves your machine. So we made it the floor under every plan — free and unlimited, forever.
That changes what running out of minutes even means. On most tools, hitting your limit is a wall: a hard stop, an upsell, a dead feature. On Misprback, when cloud minutes run out, narration continues on the on-device voice. Never a hard stop, never a surprise charge.
You pay for the voice, not the minute
That's the honest version of our pricing. The free tier gives you a taste of the cloud voices and unlimited on-device narration. Paid tiers add generous everyday minutes and a bucket of premium studio voices. And a cost-weighted meter runs underneath so that no matter how you mix voices, we can keep the lights on and you're never billed a rupee you didn't expect.