Readio vs Einfall

Readio turns the articles, PDFs, and documents you read into audio you can listen to - like a personal podcast feed built from anything on the web. Share a link from Safari, paste a URL, drop in a PDF, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Built entirely on-device. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac. No accounts. No tracking. No subscription. One price, yours forever. LISTEN ANYWHERE * High-quality on-device text-to-speech with a full Siri voice picker * Pitch-preserving 0.5x-2x playback - no chipmunk effect * Skip forward / back, jump by paragraph, scrub the timeline * Resumes where you left off, even across reboots * Auto-advance respects your progress - finished articles let the next queued one resume; Skip Next restarts fresh * Adjustable pause between articles, plus a sleep timer with "stop at end of article" PODCASTS & AUDIO * Add a podcast episode by RSS feed, direct audio link, episode page, or a local audio file * Plays right alongside your articles - same player, queue, CarPlay, and Lock Screen controls * Filter your Library to just audio, with a mic badge marking episodes WORKS WITH YOUR LIFE * CarPlay with pre-rendered audio for stutter-free highway driving * Articles render to disk in the background so wireless playback uses a real audio file * Lock screen, Control Center, Bluetooth, AirPods, and car-stereo controls all wired up * Background audio that survives phone calls without auto-resuming * Share extension - send any URL from any app into your queue A PLAYER THAT FEELS RIGHT * Tap the mini player and the artwork flies up into the full player with a matched-geometry morph * Album-style zoom into playlists and detail views * Animated waveform on whichever article is currently playing * Twelve accent palettes and iOS 26 Liquid Glass chrome throughout CLEAN READER VIEW * Five themes (Auto, Light, Sepia, Dark, Black) and eight reading-optimized fonts * Drop-cap opener, wider iPad column, sticky header with a live "X min left" pill * Tap to immerse - toolbars hide for distraction-free reading; one tap brings them back * Long-press any sentence to share it as a beautifully-rendered quote image * Read and listen interchangeably - your position syncs across both modes DOCUMENTS, NOT JUST ARTICLES * Import PDFs, HTML files, plain text, and Markdown * Read in the native viewer or extracted into the reader and listened to * Stored on-device - never sent to a server * Open from Files, AirDrop, or any share sheet KEEP THE WHOLE PAGE * Save full-page snapshots - code blocks, images, and layout intact * Available offline once captured, viewable from inside the article * Per-article default view, or turn it on globally SMART PLAYLISTS * Today, Quick Listens, Long Reads, Recently Played, Unstarted — auto-curated for the time you have * Build your own with a rule editor: by source, by length, by recency * Updates live as your library changes; tap to listen to the whole set ORGANIZE * Continue Listening carousel - pick up where you stopped on every in-progress article * Playlists with custom gradients and SF Symbol icons * Drag-to-reorder queue, swipe-to-remove, Edit button so handles are always visible * Long-press in Library, Search, or Up Next for one-tap Play, Start Over, Add to Queue, Move to Top, Archive, Delete * Auto-archive completed articles - restorable from Archive any time * Search with sort and instant keyboard dismiss * iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad RSS FEEDS * Subscribe to any feed - articles import automatically and are ready to listen * Smart deduplication so the same article never queues twice * "Restored from Archive" indicator when a re-shared article is already in your library PRIVATE BY DESIGN * Articles fetched directly from the source over HTTPS * Nothing leaves your device except the article URL itself * No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs * One-time payment - no subscription, no ads, ever REQUIRES iOS 17 OR LATER. Designed for iPhone and iPad. Compatible with Apple Silicon Mac.

Einfall is a place for fugitive thoughts. The thought arrives while you are busy with something else — in a queue, on a walk, halfway through a meeting. Einfall is the fastest place to put it, and a place you can trust to keep it. Get it out of your head in a second. Deal with it later. Or never. One-time purchase. No subscription. Capture wherever you are Whichever device is nearest your hand, and never more than one gesture: • The Mac menu bar, summoned by a keyboard shortcut from any app • Home-screen and lock-screen widgets • Control Centre, on iPhone, iPad and Mac • The share sheet, for a link or a passage of text • The Services menu on Mac, for selected text in any app • Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and the Action Button • Your voice, transcribed on your device as you speak None of them make you look at your stream first. Capture is free and unlimited, forever. One calm stream Everything you capture lands in a single flat list, newest first. No folders, no notebooks, no unread counts, no reminders that you are behind. Plain text you can read, edit and search. Tags if you want them, nothing to tend if you do not. A long stream is not a backlog — it is a notebook you trust. Do something with a thought, when you are ready Open the stream, pick a thought and fire an action: • Send it out — to Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Files, the share sheet or a Shortcut • Change it in place — tidy the phrasing with Apple Intelligence on your device, turn prose into a list, change the case, stamp the time it was caught, copy it • Fold it into another thought, so related notes gather in one place A thought that gets routed leaves the stream. A thought you no longer need is deleted, without ceremony. Both are good endings. Your own AI agent, if you use one Einfall carries an optional local server on Mac — off until you turn it on — so your own AI agent can read and work on your stream on your behalf. Whatever you can do in the app, your agent can do too. Nothing it writes changes a thought until you accept it. Private because there is nowhere else to be No account. No sign-in. No infrastructure of ours between you and your thoughts. Your stream syncs across your own devices through iCloud, and nowhere else. Dictation and Apple Intelligence run on your device. Einfall's App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, because none is. You can lock the stream behind Face ID or Touch ID, export the whole thing as one plain-text file whenever you like, and keep automatic backups in a folder you choose. Free to capture. Pay once to unlock everything you can do with your thoughts. Capturing is free and unlimited, forever. Reading and searching your stream is always free. So are the in-place actions — copy, listify, change case and timestamps. The routing layer — sending a thought out to another app, folding one thought into another, and Apple Intelligence — gives you fifteen free fires. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks it for good, on every device you own, and for your household through Family Sharing. No subscription. Nothing to renew. Nothing expires. Your own thoughts are never held behind a lapsing fee. Einfall is the German word for an idea that falls into your mind unprompted. This is the place to put those thoughts before they are gone. Mac, iPhone and iPad. Requires macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.