Pricing

Free. The library is seven dollars.

Castwright is free — every book, the full cast, yours to keep. The Cast Pass is seven dollars, once: it keeps the lights on, and it gives your library a memory.

The public beta: everything free

While Castwright is in beta, everything below — series memory included — is free. The Cast Pass arrives at launch.

Free

Always. No card required.

Books: Any book, full cast, no caps, no watermark
Voices: Catalogue + designed + one personal cloned voice
Series: Each book casts fresh
Library: Per-book
Quality: Every line checked & flagged; manual re-record
Listening: Export M4B/MP3 to any player
Workflow: One book at a time

Get notified at launch

Cast Pass At launch

US$7

Once. Keeps the lights on.

Books: Everything in Free
Voices: Family voices, with consent & reuse rules
Series: Castwright remembers your cast across the series
Library: Cross-book voice library, merge, provenance, rebaseline
Quality: Auto-repair + one-click drift regeneration
Listening: Companion app pairing (sync, offline, resume)
Workflow: Multi-book queue, A/B diff player, AI-agent (MCP) control

Cast Pass — coming soon

After launch, the first returning character in book two stays free

Before you ever pay, you'll hear the moat. Open book two: Castwright will recognise the first character who appeared in book one and cast them in the same voice. That's the series memory — and that first reunion will be on us.

Why seven dollars, once

Subscriptions are a tax on engagement. We want you to make as many audiobooks as you like — not pay more for making more. Seven dollars covers the cost of keeping Castwright healthy and improving; it doesn't grow with your library.

The series memory, cross-book voice library, and companion app are the features that take infrastructure to maintain. At launch, the Cast Pass will pay for that infrastructure once, forever, for you. No metering. No renewal. No cliff.

No renewal for you — the renewals are ours. Putting an installer on Windows and macOS without security warnings takes code-signing certificates and Apple notarisation; putting the listener app on the App Store and Google Play takes developer accounts and review. Those licensing and certification fees come back every year — they're the price of making Castwright installable by almost anyone, and the Cast Pass is how we cover them.

The renewals, itemised

Windows

code-signing certificate, renewed annually
macOS

Developer ID signing + notarisation
App Store

developer account + app review
Google Play

developer account + app review

The official store badges arrive when the apps do.

Cost over time

Cumulative spend — one book every three months, $11/mo subscription tier.

Cumulative cost over 12 months
Month	Castwright ($)	$11/mo subscription ($)	Per-book cloud ($)
1	7	11	200
2	7	22	200
3	7	33	200
4	7	44	400
5	7	55	400
6	7	66	400
7	7	77	600
8	7	88	600
9	7	99	600
10	7	110	800
11	7	121	800
12	7	132	800

After 12 months: Castwright $7 once; an $11/month subscription ~$132; per-book cloud ~$200 per book. Subscription assumes ElevenLabs Creator tier (vendor-published pricing, June 2026).

Month	Castwright ($)	$11/mo subscription ($)	Per-book cloud ($)
1	7	11	200
2	7	22	200
3	7	33	200
4	7	44	400
5	7	55	400
6	7	66	400
7	7	77	600
8	7	88	600
9	7	99	600
10	7	110	800
11	7	121	800
12	7	132	800

Month	Castwright ($)	$11/mo subscription ($)	Per-book cloud ($)
1	7	11	200
2	7	22	200
3	7	33	200
4	7	44	400
5	7	55	400
6	7	66	400
7	7	77	600
8	7	88	600
9	7	99	600
10	7	110	800
11	7	121	800
12	7	132	800

Month	Castwright ($)	$11/mo subscription ($)	Per-book cloud ($)
1	7	11	200
2	7	22	200
3	7	33	200
4	7	44	400
5	7	55	400
6	7	66	400
7	7	77	600
8	7	88	600
9	7	99	600
10	7	110	800
11	7	121	800
12	7	132	800