# Timber - Text to Speech, Voice — Read articles, books aloud

> Read articles, books aloud (iPhone/iPad app by Truth in the Machine LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/timber-text-to-speech-voice/id6779086700 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Truth in the Machine LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779086852)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 204 MB
- Languages: American English, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian and 25 more
- Released: 2026-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/timber-text-to-speech-voice/id6779086700/reviews.md

## What is Timber?

Timber is a reader that listens with you. Paste an article from Safari or any browser, drop in a book, or just snap a page with your camera — Timber turns it into clean, beautiful text and reads it aloud in a voice you choose, today. There is even a companion desktop app that moves your browser tabs into your ears.

Ever asked Safari to read a page aloud and had it stop halfway through, or skip the parts that mattered? That is not you missing a setting. Most reader tools simply are not built to get the whole article. Timber pulls the full text out first, cleanly, before it ever starts speaking. The article you paste is the article you hear, start to finish.

It was built by a teacher who spent years watching kids fight through words they desperately wanted to understand, and who couldn't find one app that read beautifully, respected privacy, and didn't hold the basics hostage.

WHAT TIMBER PROMISES
• No account. No sign-up. Open it and read.
• The core reader is free — and stays free.
• What you read is nobody's business. Articles, books, and clipboard text are processed on your device. What you read won't be shared.

VOICES, PROPERLY
• Every Apple voice on your device works, free — including Enhanced and Premium.
• Hundreds of neural voices across dozens of languages, downloaded on demand and spoken entirely on your device.
• Every voice library includes a free male and female voice in your language. No teaser locked behind a trial.
• Record a reference of your own voice and Timber can read in it — created on device, never uploaded.

A READER THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER
• Warm parchment design — an open book under a reading lamp, not a tech product.
• Word-by-word highlighting that keeps pace at every speed, 0.5× to 3×.
• Serif reading typography you can tune: size, face, line spacing. Six palettes built in.

BRING ANYTHING
• Paste a link and Timber extracts the article — no ads, no popups, just the text.
• Share from Safari or any browser, import PDFs and text, follow RSS feeds.
• Point your camera at a printed page and Timber reads it back to you.
• Browse 70,000+ free public-domain books from Project Gutenberg.
• Translate articles on device, or get a quick on-device summary — no cloud, no AI account.
• Export any article as spoken audio to take with you.
• Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices.

TIMBER PRO (optional, one subscription or pay once)
The free reader is complete. Pro unlocks the full neural voice catalog beyond each library's free pair, every palette, and ongoing personal-voice listening after the free 24-hour trial. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime — and the trial simply lapses; it never auto-charges.

Privacy Policy: https://timberreader.com/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Timber was made for the kid in the back row who hears a story better than they can read it — and for everyone whose eyes are tired, busy, or somewhere else. If that's you, welcome.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timber Pro Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Timber Pro Yearly | $39.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timber Pro Lifetime | $99.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-02

Translation repairs.

Timber was calling itself by a translated name in several languages, and so were its voices. Names are names again everywhere.

Every translation is also up to date. Six weeks of finished translation work had not reached the app; French alone gained 138 corrected lines.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-01

Timber now tells you which language it is speaking, and where to change it.

Settings → Reading & appearance has a new App language row. It shows the language Timber is using right now and takes you straight to the iOS setting that changes it — handy if your phone is set to one language and you would rather read in another.

Timber is translated into 39 languages.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-01

Personal voices start speaking sooner.

Timber used to build a whole paragraph before making a sound, which left a long pause every time it moved to the next one. Now it starts talking almost right away, so reading runs continuously instead of stopping and starting.

Also in this update:
- Smoother scrolling in the Voices list.
- Less background work while you read, which is easier on your battery.
- A quieter app overall: fewer things running that you never asked for.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-18

Personal voices start speaking sooner.

Timber used to build a whole paragraph before making a sound, which left a long pause every time it moved to the next one. Now it starts talking almost right away, so reading runs continuously instead of stopping and starting.

Also in this update:
- Smoother scrolling in the Voices list.
- Less background work while you read, which is easier on your battery.
- A quieter app overall: fewer things running that you never asked for.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-15

No release notes.

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