# Oplæs: Text to Speech Reader — Text to speech, word by word

> Text to speech, word by word (iPhone/iPad app by Commanigy.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/opls-text-to-speech-reader/id6815136679 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Commanigy](https://appshunter.io/developer/379605563)
- Category: Education, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 30 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-14

## What is Oplæs?

Oplæs reads English and Danish text aloud in natural voices and highlights each word as you follow along. Free. No ads. No account – and all reading happens on your iPhone.

LISTEN TO ANYTHING
• PDFs, reports and course packs – scanned pages too
• Articles from the web: tap Share in Safari and choose Oplæs
• ePub books, text you paste and paper you photograph
• Headers, page numbers, footnote numbers and web addresses are skipped

FOLLOW ALONG WORD BY WORD
• Each word lights up yellow, in time with the voice
• Tap a sentence to read from there
• Skip a sentence forward or back, or jump to a chapter
• Large, calm type that’s easy to read – made for dyslexia, good for everyone

VOICES THAT SOUND HUMAN
• A natural English voice (Chatterbox by Resemble AI)
• Mic and Nic: natural Danish voices from the CoRal project, recorded by Nota
• Each paragraph is read by the voice for its language
• On iOS 26, Oplæs listens to its own reading to make sure every word is said

WHEREVER YOU ARE
• 0.5× to 3× speed
• Listen with the screen locked, on AirPods or in the car
• Sleep timer and Lock Screen controls
• Oplæs remembers where you left off

YOUR TEXT IS YOURS
The voices are downloaded once and then run on your iPhone. No account, no server reading along, no tracking.

The app is in English, Danish, Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Korean. The voices read English and Danish.

FREE. JUST ENJOY IT.
The whole app is free, with every feature, no ads and no subscription. If you’re doing alright, you can become a supporter inside the app and get the show-off icons: extra app icons and a silly little game. Nothing gets locked, and freeloaders are still very welcome.

## Is Oplæs safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Oplæs.

## Is Oplæs legit?

Oplæs: Text to Speech Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Oplæs is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-10-05

• Oplæs now speaks Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Korean too (reading aloud is still in English and Danish)
• Text in a language Oplæs has no voice for is no longer read with the Danish voice – Oplæs tells you instead
• A supporter row at the end of About Oplæs in Settings, for anyone who wants the show-off icons – entirely optional
• Runs on iOS 17 and later

### 1.1 — 2026-10-04

Oplæs is free. Become a supporter if you like and get the show-off icons – extra app icons and a silly little game. Entirely optional; nothing gets locked. Plus a new About Oplæs section in Settings and the app icon at the top.

## What’s new (1.0)

**DA:** Første version.
**EN:** First release.

## Screenshot captions

| # | Screen | DA | EN |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Library | Få al tekst læst op | Hear any text read aloud |
| 2 | Reader | Følg med ord for ord | Follow along word by word |
| 3 | Voice | Naturlige danske stemmer | Natural voices on your iPhone |
| 4 | Add | PDF, web, bøger og papir | PDFs, web, books and paper |

Framed with `AppStore/tools/compose.py` from `Screenshots/raw` (captured by `ScreenshotDirector`, see `CLAUDE.md`).

## App Review notes

Free app with one optional non-consumable in-app purchase, Supporter (Settings → Supporter): it unlocks extra alternate app icons and a small game, and never locks a feature. No subscriptions or ads. No account or sign-in. On first launch the library offers to download the voices (about 1.2 GB, from voices.oplaes.theill.com); reading aloud starts once they're downloaded. Please use Wi-Fi. (In 1.0 the offer appears in the reader after adding a text, and in Settings; from 1.0.1 also on the empty library.)

To test: tap "Hent stemmerne" / "Download the voices", wait for the download, open "+", choose "Indsæt tekst" / "Paste text", paste any text and tap Play. Safari's Share sheet → Oplæs adds the current web page.

All speech is generated on the device with Apple MLX (open-source models: CoRal Røst, OpenRAIL; Chatterbox Turbo, MIT). The app checks its own audio with Apple's on-device dictation (SpeechAnalyzer); nothing is sent anywhere. The only network requests are the voice download, web pages the user adds and the App Store purchase. The voices need about 1.7 GB of memory, so on iPhones where iOS allows less than 2 GB (with the increased-memory-limit entitlement) the app says so instead of offering the download (from 1.0.1). Settings › Voice terms shows the use restrictions of the CoRal voice licence, which users accept when downloading; Settings › Licences lists all licences.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-29

New App Store name and minor improvements.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-24

No release notes.

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