Aloud
Anything you can read, read aloud.
On iPhone Duo
Closed, it listens. Open, it reads.
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Folded The voice keeps going on the cover screen. -
Half open Two facing pages, at any angle. -
Open Translating? The original and the translation, side by side.
Share an article, open a PDF, or paste any text. Aloud reads it to you in a natural voice generated on your iPhone, sentence by sentence, and always keeps your place.
Natural voices, on device
Fourteen voices for English and thirty more languages. No server does the talking, so Aloud keeps reading in airplane mode.
Articles, PDFs, anything
Share from any browser, open PDFs from Files, even scanned ones, or paste your own text.
A reader, not a player
The sentence being spoken is lit. Hold the margin rail to scrub through the whole document.
Faster, if you like
From 0.5× to 3× without the chipmunk voice, with pauses trimmed at every full stop if you want them.
Made for the move
Keeps reading with the screen locked, with lock-screen and AirPods controls and a sleep timer that fades out.
On every device
Optional iCloud sync keeps your shelf as plain text files in your own iCloud Drive.
No cloud. No subscription.
Many popular text-to-speech apps make their voices on their own servers, so the articles and documents you listen to are uploaded there first, and their premium plans can cost $139 a year, or $29 a month (nearly $350 a year). Aloud makes every voice right on your iPhone, so what you read is never sent anywhere to be spoken. And there is no subscription: one optional purchase, yours forever.
What people say.
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★★★★★
“I use this daily to listen to the Economist and New Yorker… it sounds super natural and it just works”
App Store review, United States -
“Holy moly, that UI is beautiful. One of the most beautiful apps I’ve seen!”
Review on Reddit
- Speech is generated on your iPhone. Your documents are never uploaded.
- Voices download once from a public host. Articles you share are fetched from their own website, as a browser would.
- No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking.
