ReadAloud: Text to Speech PDF

New: import Kindle books (MOBI/AZW3), plus more reliable playback and exports. Listen to PDFs, articles, and photos in 60+ languages. 100% offline.

ReadAloud turns any text into natural speech using Apple's on-device voices. Listen to PDFs, Word documents, articles, photos, and any text in 60+ languages — 100% offline.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• LISTEN TO ANYTHING Type or paste text, import a PDF, Word (DOCX), EPUB, or Kindle (MOBI/AZW3, DRM-free) document, scan a photo or a printed page with your camera, or paste a URL to hear the article text. Auto language detection picks the right voice for you. Jump between chapters in EPUB and Word documents, and skip straight to any page in a PDF.

• CLEAN, DISTRACTION-FREE READING Repeated page headers and footers, and reference/footnote numbers, are automatically skipped so they never interrupt the flow of what you're listening to — and academic two-column PDFs read in the correct order, left column then right, instead of jumping between columns line by line.

• ORGANIZE WITH FOLDERS Sort your Library into folders, so long reading lists stay easy to find.

• 60+ LANGUAGES & VOICES All Apple system voices included — Default, Enhanced, and Premium neural voices on iOS 17+. A voice quality indicator guides you to the best available voice for each language.

• TAP TO DEFINE Long-press any sentence while listening to look up a word's definition, highlight it, or add a bookmark — without losing your place.

• READING THEMES Choose System, Sepia, or Night page themes, adjustable line spacing, and a dyslexia-friendly OpenDyslexic font option.

• TRACK YOUR PROGRESS See your daily listening streak and total minutes listened right on your Library screen.

• POWERFUL PLAYBACK Speed control from 0.5x to 2.5x, drag the progress bar to jump to any point, current sentence highlighted with auto-scroll, skip forward or backward by sentence, full Lock Screen and AirPods support, and true background playback so you can listen while doing anything else.

• BATCH EXPORT TO MP3 & NOTES Select multiple documents in your Library and export them all to MP3 at once, completely on-device, or export your highlights and bookmarks as a Markdown notes file. Share via AirDrop, Files, or Messages.

• SIRI SHORTCUTS Send any text straight to ReadAloud from the Shortcuts app or Siri.

• APPLE WATCH COMPANION See what's reading and control playback right from your wrist.

• BUILT FOR IPAD A layout designed for the bigger screen, so reading and listening feel just as natural on iPad.

PRIVACY FIRST Your text never leaves your iPhone. No account required, no data collection, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. The only network request is optional URL fetching when you paste a web link.

Start by reading and importing documents with 10 minutes of real listening included. The yearly plan includes an eligible 3-day free trial. Monthly and lifetime options are also available.

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