Aloud — Text to Speech Reader

No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Nothing you read ever leaves your iPhone. Aloud turns anything you can read into something you can listen to. Share an article from any browser, open a PDF from Files, or paste any text — Aloud reads it aloud in a natural voice, sentence by sentence, with your place kept perfectly. The voices are generated entirely on your iPhone's Neural Engine. There is no server doing the talking, which is why Aloud never needs an account, never meters your listening, and keeps working in airplane mode. The first voice you play downloads its model once (about 350 MB); after that, the internet is optional. LISTEN TO ANYTHING • Web articles — share from any browser, Aloud extracts just the story • PDFs — including scanned ones, recognized on-device • Any text you paste, from notes to your own drafts A READER, NOT A MEDIA PLAYER • The sentence being spoken is lit; the rest of the page waits quietly • A margin rail shows the whole document — hold and slide to scrub • Your position is saved the moment it changes, per document • A speed dial from 0.5× to 3×, and time remaining that respects it • A sleep timer that fades out instead of cutting you off mid-word MADE FOR LISTENING ON THE MOVE • Keeps reading with the screen locked • Lock-screen and AirPods controls: play, pause, skip 15 seconds • A shelf split into unread and read, each sorted your way — by date, length, or title • Your place remembered in everything TEN NATURAL VOICES US and UK English voices with real warmth, plus every system voice on your iPhone as a fallback for other languages. Audition any voice with a tap. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Aloud makes no network requests to read to you. Articles are fetched by your phone the way a browser would, and everything after that — extraction, voices, your library, your listening history — stays on the device. The App Privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because there is nowhere to collect it to. ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER Aloud is free to try: the shelf holds three pieces, with every feature included — the natural voices, PDFs and scans, the lock-screen player, all of it. A single purchase lets the shelf hold as many pieces as you like, forever. No subscription, nothing recurring, and your listening is never metered either way. If you read with your ears — long articles, research papers, contracts, fan fiction, your own writing — Aloud was built for you. And if you rely on spoken text every day, we would especially love to hear what you need next.