Clearly vs Timber

Clearly turns anything you read into natural speech — and into a way to learn the language while you listen. Everything runs on your device, offline. NEW — Read the web in Safari. Turn on the Clearly Safari extension and listen to ANY web page right where it is — no copy-paste, no importing. Select a sentence, tap play, and Clearly reads aloud from there in a natural voice, highlighting each line and scrolling to follow along. Pause, skip sentences, and change the speed from a control bar on the page. It's the fastest way to turn articles, blogs, news, and docs into hands-free, fully on-device listening. Paste text, open a .txt file, drop in a web link, or bring in an X post. Clearly pulls out the article, reads it aloud in a natural voice, and gives you a quick summary — all on your device. Tap any sentence to start listening from there, with the sentence highlighted as it plays. Pause on something you don't fully understand and open Interpret: Clearly shows a literal translation and a natural one, then explains the words you pick — meaning, pronunciation, and an example sentence. A reader and a quiet language tutor in one. WHY CLEARLY • NEW: Read any web page in Safari with the Clearly extension — select a sentence and listen, with live highlighting • 100% on-device and offline — no account, no internet, nothing leaves your iPhone • Natural speech in 31 languages, powered by on-device Supertonic TTS • Sentence-by-sentence playback with live highlighting • Tap to translate (literal + natural) and explain words, on-device with Apple Intelligence • Private summaries and titles, generated on your device • Import from the clipboard, text files, web pages, and X GREAT FOR • Reading and listening practice in a new language • Turning articles, notes, and documents into hands-free listening • Reading support and accessibility • Anyone who wants private, offline text-to-speech Translation, word explanations, and summaries use Apple Intelligence and need a supported device. No accounts. No tracking. Your text stays with you.

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.