Features & Capabilities

Read&Write for iPad is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration.

Read&Write provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. Read&Write is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text.

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Text-to-Speech

  • Type into Read&Write and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily.
  • You can import documents into Read&Write from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive.. Read&Write can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub.
  • Text from any app can be copied and pasted into Read&Write ready to be read back.
  • Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into Read&Write, and can be listened back to ensure it is right.
  • The Apple spell check works in Read&Write too, further helping accuracy.
  • You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice.

• Word Prediction Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately.

• Visual Highlighting Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. Read&Write lets you pick the colour and style of highlighting required. There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting.

• Font & Layout Change the font type, size or colour to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasise. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library.

• Save to Audio Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go.

• Share your text Text created within Read&Write can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari.

• Read webpages You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read&Write Toolbar" extension from the share menu.

  • Spellcheck & Grammar check Use the Read&Write spellcheck feature that can provide you with additional word descriptions and pictures to help you find the correct word.

Also included in this app is the Read&Write Keyboard app, which is a powerful keyboard replacement that works in every app. Supporting reading, writing, comprehension and vocabulary development, Read&Write provides a rich set of features which extend accessibility and provide a range of tools to help with literacy including:

• Text to speech • Prediction • Dictionary / Talking dictionary • Picture Dictionary • Check It • Talk&Type (available for iOS 10 and above) • Speak as I type • OpenDyslexic font support • Language translation in Safari (French or Spanish, Locale dependent) • French language localisation

The Read&Write keyboard app provides help everywhere it’s needed whether it’s working on documents, presentations, being creative or just using mail. It’s great for those with individual needs such as Dyslexia and those where English is not their first language, but it’s designed for everyone.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Everway Opco Ltd.
Rating:
3.10
(29)
Version:
7.16.0 Last updated: 2026-06-25
Version code:
887181097
Creation date:
2015-01-29
Compatible devices:
Size:
223.67MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-30
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Everway Opco Ltd.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/read-write/id934749270
Website:
http://texthelp.com

User Reviews

The way it’s reading makes it hard to understand. The ai ignore pauses, taking pause before starting to read a new bullet point, moving to another paragraph. There are limited voice choices. Not even worth 1$. I’ll stick to the computer extension. This app needs major updates.
by Mc*****, 2025-06-07

I don’t understand why I cannot delete text while in the document - every time I select text and hit the delete key or cut, it kicks me out of the app! Super frustrating and not user friendly.
by Lm*****, 2025-05-09

A complete waste of money I can’t use it for things. I need to use it for like reading articles on the web.
by Ki*****, 2025-01-20
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