How to use InboxToAudio

A plain-English guide for turning newsletters, reports, and emails into private audio you can listen to anywhere.

Subscribe your inbox to a newsletter

Forwarding one email at a time is great for the occasional article. But if there is a newsletter you want to hear every single time it is published, you can subscribe to it directly with your private InboxToAudio listening address. From then on, each new issue lands in your listening inbox automatically and comes back as audio — no forwarding required.

This works for almost any newsletter or recurring email: Substack, Beehiiv, Ghost, Mailchimp, a company digest, a daily news brief — if it sends to an email address, it can send to yours at InboxToAudio.

You need an inbox first

This guide assumes you already created your private listening address on the Individual plans page. If you haven’t, create your inbox there first, then come back.

1. Pick a newsletter you want to listen to

Have a newsletter or email you want to listen to every time it is published? That’s the one to subscribe. Anything that arrives on a schedule — daily, weekly, whenever the author posts — is a perfect fit, because every issue will turn into audio without you lifting a finger.

2. Subscribe your InboxToAudio inbox address to the newsletter

Instead of entering your normal email on the newsletter’s sign-up form, enter your private InboxToAudio listening address. It looks like:

word.word.12345@inbox.inboxtoaudio.app

Copy your listening address from your dashboard (the listening inbox card has a Copy button).
Go to the newsletter’s subscribe page or sign-up box — usually on the publication’s website, or at the bottom of an issue a friend forwarded you.
Paste your InboxToAudio address into the email field and submit the form.

3. Confirm your subscription (if asked)

Many newsletters send a confirmation email (sometimes called a “double opt-in”) before they start sending issues. You have to click the confirmation link once, or the subscription never activates. Because you subscribed with your InboxToAudio address, that confirmation email arrives in your listening inbox, not your personal email. There are two easy ways to confirm:

Use the link we email you. When a confirmation email comes in, we send it on to you so you can click the link directly.
Or open your listening inbox. Find the confirmation email in the list, open it, and click the confirm / activate link inside.

Confirmation links are one-time

Click the link once and you’re done — you won’t see it again. Some newsletters skip this step entirely; if no confirmation email arrives within a few minutes, you’re probably already subscribed and the next issue will just show up.

4. Listen — automatically, every issue

That’s it. The next time the newsletter publishes, the issue arrives in your listening inbox, we clean it up, generate the audio in your chosen voice, and send you a private listen link. Every future issue follows the same path with zero extra steps.

How to unsubscribe

Want to stop hearing a newsletter? Unsubscribe the same way you would from any email:

Open your InboxToAudio listening inbox and find any issue from that newsletter.
Scroll to the footer and find the unsubscribe link (almost every newsletter is required to include one).
Click it and follow the prompt to confirm.

New issues stop arriving, so they stop becoming audio. Audio you already generated stays playable.

Which address should I subscribe with?

On Individual Pro you have two listening addresses: your normal single-voice address, and a separate two-speaker address that returns a podcast-style conversation between two voices. Both work as subscription addresses, so the one you sign up with decides how that newsletter sounds from then on. A dense weekly report might suit a single narrator, while a chatty daily brief can work well with two. To switch a newsletter over later, unsubscribe and re-subscribe with the other address.

Subscribing vs. forwarding — which should I use?

Subscribe when you want every issue of a newsletter, hands-free, going forward. Best for the publications you follow regularly.
Forward when you just want a one-off — a single article, a one-time email, or something you don’t want to receive on an ongoing basis. See the Individual plans guide for forwarding.

Keep your address private

Treat your listening address like a password. If it ever leaks or you get unwanted email, you can regenerate it from your dashboard — the old address stops working immediately. You’ll need to re-subscribe to your newsletters with the new address.

Troubleshooting

The newsletter rejected my address

A few sign-up forms block addresses they don’t recognize. If that happens, subscribe with your normal email first, then set up forwarding for that one, or contact us and we’ll help.

I subscribed but nothing arrives

Check whether a confirmation email is waiting in your listening inbox (step 3) — most “missing” subscriptions are just unconfirmed. Also confirm you have an active subscription; without one, new email isn’t processed.

I’m only getting some issues

If you turned on Only accept forwards from approved senders, the newsletter’s sending address has to be on your approved list — otherwise its issues are blocked. Either add the sender or turn that setting off.

Still stuck? Reach us anytime at support@inboxtoaudio.app — tell us which newsletter you subscribed to and the address you used so we can find it quickly.

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