SpeakBook Your books, read aloud. Free.

Lifelike voices that live right on your device, so every book you own can be read to you for free. No subscription, no credits, no internet needed.

Download for Mac

Free on iPhone and iPad. Free for Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later).

Listen

Tap a paragraph. It starts reading.

SpeakBook reads your ePubs, PDFs and documents in a lifelike voice that runs right on your device. No internet needed.

Follow along. Each sentence lights up and the page turns by itself.
Keeps going with the screen locked, with controls on your Lock Screen and a sleep timer for bedtime.
Easy on the eyes. Light, sepia or night pages, and fonts like Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic.

Pride and Prejudice open in SpeakBook, with the sentence being read highlighted in orange and the player at the bottom.

Remember

Say a thought. It’s pinned to the page.

Hold the microphone and talk. Let go, and your words become a written note, saved at the exact spot you were listening to.

Save a quote by pressing and holding any line.
One page per book keeps every note, quote and bookmark together.
Jump back to the passage behind any note with one tap.

The notes page for Pride and Prejudice, with a voice note, a question and saved quotes.

Snap

Point at any page. Hear it.

Snap a letter, a menu, a label or a page of a paper book, and SpeakBook reads it to you. The words are recognised on your device.

Scan whole books. Pages are caught automatically, and an open book’s two pages are read in order.
Save what you snap to your library, or just listen and move on.
Your photos stay yours. Nothing is uploaded.

A snapped appointment letter being read aloud, with the current words highlighted.

iPhone, iPad and Mac

Better together, on your own Wi‑Fi.

Connect your devices once and your books, notes and place stay in step, straight from one to the other.

SpeakBook on a Mac, reading Pride and Prejudice aloud.

Your Mac makes the voices

The free Mac app makes even richer voices and whole audiobooks of your books, ready to play offline on your iPhone.

Device to device

Sync goes directly between your devices, encrypted, after you confirm a matching code on both screens.

Pick up where you left off

Stop on your iPad, carry on from the same sentence on your iPhone.

Download for Mac

Free. Apple silicon Mac, macOS 15 or later. Not on the Mac App Store.

No account. Nothing leaves your devices.

Your books, notes and voice notes stay on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. No sign-in, no ads, no tracking, and no cloud in the middle. The only thing we ever receive is feedback you choose to send. Read the privacy policy.

Your next book is waiting.

Download for Mac