Talefold: Books Read Aloud

Read classics, comics and your own EPUBs and PDFs, and let your iPhone read them aloud. Sign, scan, annotate and color for free. Made for the iPhone Duo.

Every book is a tale waiting to unfold. Talefold turns the iPhone Duo into an open book: each screen is a page, and every way you hold it has a purpose.

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • Open it flat and your book lies open as a real two-page spread, one page on each screen. • Half-open it like a book and read it in your hands. • Fold it into a stand and the page stands up top while the lower half becomes a touchpad: drag to flip pages, tap to turn, and control listening without covering the text. • Closed, the outer display is a full reader of its own. Unfold and you're on the same page. • Lock the layout when you want the book to stay put.

THE DESK, BUILT FOR THE FOLD • Sign in table pose: the document stands on the upper screen while you sign on the lower one, like a desk. Place, resize and date your signature, and keep the original untouched. • Mark up, highlight and annotate any PDF with Apple Pencil or your finger. • Scan paper pages into clean, searchable PDFs, then have them read aloud. • All free. No subscription.

DRAW AND COLOR • Drawing and coloring books that open across both screens. • Apple Pencil or finger, with marker, watercolor and crayon brushes, a full palette and tap-to-fill.

READ ANYTHING • EPUB ebooks, PDFs and comics (CBZ and CBR), with a right-to-left switch for manga. • A shelf of hand-picked classics, ready on day one. • Coloring and drawing books made from museum art: page 1 is free, unlock the rest once. • Bring your own files from Files, Mail or iCloud Drive.

LISTEN • Classics read aloud in full: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan are free, and more narrated books are one-time purchases. • Your iPhone reads any other page aloud, highlighting each word as it goes. • Keep listening with the screen locked, from Now Playing. • Narrated books are read by Talefold's digital narrators.

NOTES • Type and write on the same page, on plain, lined, college, grid or dotted paper, with Apple Pencil or your finger. • Your highlights from every book gather in the same tab. • Share any note as a PDF.

YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Your books and places sync through iCloud across iPhone and iPad; notes stay on this device. • On iPad, landscape is an open book and portrait a single page. • No account and no sign-in needed.

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