Every text is
an audiobook.
Natural AI voices read your books aloud, with words highlighted in sync. Try every available voice for your first 8 hours of listening. Afterwards, keep a free English voice selection and unlimited book listening. No LoudReader account or word quota. Speech is generated on your device.
Free book listening · On-device voices
Read along as you listen.
Every sentence lights up as it's spoken. Your eyes and ears stay perfectly in sync.
Narration stays
on your device.
Books. Work memos. Personal letters. Speech is generated on your device, without uploading your text to a speech server. No LoudReader account is needed.
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Voices worth
listening to.
23 studio narrators across 10 languages. Eleven of them in English. Voice availability depends on your device, and speech runs locally.
Find narrators for Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Danish alongside English. In the picker, the voice list follows languages in your library or languages you choose in Settings.
Offline narration, without uploading books to a speech service.
“Hi, I'm James. The lamps came on along the quiet street, and somewhere a piano began to play — slow and unhurried, as if the city had finally decided to rest.”
Recorded on an iPhone, by the app itself.
Hear all 23 narrators — every one of them, in the language they read.
Or read it
in your own voice.
Record about ten seconds of clear speech to create a narrator on your device. Use your own voice or a recording you have permission to use. Voice files are stored locally, and deleting a clone removes its saved files.
Create up to three voices during your all-voices allowance. Premium removes that creation limit; voices you have already created stay stored but lock when the allowance ends.
Your library,
always with you.
Import DRM-free EPUBs and PDFs, including scans with on-device text recognition, or save web articles. Browse 70,000+ Project Gutenberg classics, subject to local copyright.
Make it yours.
Speed, font, text size, night mode. Every detail tuned to how you read.
Never short of
something to read.
Explore the curated classics shelf, shuffle the selection, or let Surprise Me choose your next read. Browse more titles in Project Gutenberg, download a book, and listen offline.
And all the details.
The little things that make it feel right.
Sleep timer
Drift off. It stops when you do.
Soundscapes
Rain, fireplace, ocean waves.
0.3x to 3.0x
Blaze through or savor every word.
Night mode
Easy on the eyes after dark.
Notes
Highlight passages. Save thoughts.
Chapters
Jump to any chapter instantly.
Background
Keep listening with the screen off.
Share
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Try every available voice for your first 8 hours of listening. Afterwards, keep a free English voice selection and unlimited book listening. No LoudReader account or word quota.
Free
$0
No account needed
- ✓Unlimited listening, cover to cover
- ✓Unlimited library and individual book imports
- ✓Every available voice for your first 8 hours
- ✓Then a free English voice selection, with unlimited book listening
- ✓Curated classics and Project Gutenberg browsing
- ✓Notes, highlights, night mode and background play
Premium
$7.99/month
One-month introductory offer for eligible subscribers.
or $49.99/year · $199.99 lifetime. US prices; storefronts may differ.
- ✓Every available studio narrator, across 10 languages
- ✓On-device voice cloning without the trial creation limit
- ✓Variable speed (0.3x to 3.0x)
- ✓Sleep timer to drift off to
- ✓Ambient soundscapes
- ✓Unlimited article saving and bulk-import usage
Start listening.
That book you've been meaning to finish? Import it, press play, and go.
Start for free · On-device voices
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