SchriftOhr

SchriftOhr is now free. Listen to every SchriftOhr Edition without limit, and to any book of your own for 10 minutes a day.

SchriftOhr is free to download. The SchriftOhr Editions, our proofed editions of classic books, are free to hear without limit. Any book of your own can be read to you for 10 minutes a day, and Unlock Listening, one purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac, removes the limit. No subscription, no account.

Open an EPUB, PDF, Markdown or text file and SchriftOhr reads it aloud, the sentence highlighted and each word underlined as it is spoken. Your place, notes and library stay the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

VOICES

• Apple's voices, including the premium ones.
• A neural voice that runs entirely on your device, offline. Teach it a word once and every device says it your way.
• On a recent iPhone, iPad or Mac it runs on the Neural Engine: quick, cool and light on the battery.
• Give a book a cast: a voice for each character, or a man's and a woman's voice beside the narrator.

MADE FOR LISTENING

• The screen dims and turns off while you listen; a tap brings it back.
• Sleep timer, driving view, speed, text size and the OpenDyslexic font.
• Printed page numbers that follow the voice, so a study group's page 62 can be followed by ear.
• Footnotes stepped over or read aloud, as you prefer.

YOUR LIBRARY AND NOTES

• Your books follow you through your own iCloud.
• Mark passages with five pens and a note; the Notebook gathers them in reading order.
• A shelf of SchriftOhr Editions with ready-made audio, and a catalog of public-domain books.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your books, notes and audio stay on your devices and in your own iCloud, and in your own Google Drive if you choose to connect it. We collect nothing.

You are responsible for having the right to read or copy the books you open. Audio made for your own listening is an accessibility feature.

Bought SchriftOhr before it was free? Listening is already unlocked for you.

Tips are welcome. A tip unlocks nothing; it supports further work.