BooReader – Read Aloud

BooReader reads your books and articles aloud with your phone's text-to-speech voice — completely free, with no account and no subscription.

WHY BOOREADER
• Reliable background listening. Many text-to-speech reading apps limit background playback to a paid tier. BooReader plays in the background and with the screen off for free.
• Headset, Bluetooth and car steering-wheel buttons control play, pause and skip to the next or previous sentence — no need to unlock your phone; controls also sit on the notification and lock screen.
• Pauses automatically for phone calls and when you unplug your headphones, then resumes; a step-by-step guide helps on phones that restrict background apps (Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei and more).
• Beautiful, book-like paper themes instead of a plain white screen.
• No account, no sign-up. Your books stay on your device.

WHAT IT READS
• EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP/ZIP, TXT, HTML, DOCX and RTF files from your phone, SD card or cloud storage
• TXT encoding is detected automatically, including old Russian encodings windows-1251, KOI8-R and CP866
• Table of contents and chapter navigation for EPUB, FB2 and HTML books
• Share an article or web link from any app, or use "Read aloud" in another app's text-selection menu, or read straight from the clipboard — BooReader extracts the article text and reads it

LIBRARY
Your bookshelf keeps every book you have opened, with its cover, reading progress and exact position, so you can pick up any book where you left off. Long-press a book to remove it from the shelf (the file itself stays on your device).

WHILE YOU LISTEN
• The sentence being read is highlighted and text already read gently fades
• Tap any sentence to continue reading from there
• Turn pages by swiping, with the page slider, or jump straight to a page
• Change reading speed from 0.5× to 3.0× instantly, no re-processing
• Sleep timer for 10–90 minutes or until the end of the chapter, with a gentle fade-out; shake your phone to restart it
• Player-only mode shows just the cover for distraction-free listening

VOICE
Choose a voice for each language with preview, adjust pitch and boost the volume — handy for quieter voices such as RHVoice, which BooReader suggests for offline Russian. Russian books get a Russian voice automatically if one is installed.

LOOK AND FEEL
Reading themes with a soft paper texture — Paper, Old paper, Night, Black or Auto — plus book fonts (Literata, PT Serif), text size, line spacing and justified text with hyphenation.

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Questions and wishes: info.softosaurus@gmail.com