Turn anything you listen to into English practice.
Bring a podcast, a lecture or a video. ReadAloud matches every word to its moment in the audio, then lets you read along, write what you hear and say it back — one sentence at a time.
- Free during the beta
- No account
- Works offline
One recording. Every way to practise it.
The text follows the voice, word by word, so every sentence becomes something you can hear, write and say.
A recording becomes a reader, word-exact
Audio or video, with or without its text: podcasts, lectures, audiobooks, films, an exam listening test. The app listens on your device and times every word.
- MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MKV, EPUB, PDF and web articles
- No transcript? It writes one.
- Three sample readers come with the app and play with no download
Listen, write, speak — one sentence at a time
Loop a sentence until you catch it. Write it word by word in dictation, and the ones you miss come back at the end. Read it after the narrator and see how close you are.
- Dictation sentence by sentence, or part by part, at three difficulties
- Read aloud, scored for accuracy, completeness, fluency, rhythm and intonation
- Shadowing, retelling, and the text kept blurred until you have heard it
What you miss comes back on schedule
The words you save and the sentences you practise come back for review on a schedule. Today puts the day together: a short session, where to pick up, and the days you have practised this week.
- Offline dictionary with word levels
- Spaced review of words and sentences
- Export to CSV or Anki, with audio clips
Exam tasks, practised the same way
Study holds practice sets for TOEFL, PTE, IELTS and the Duolingo English Test, by skill: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Choose one exam, or practise them all.
- Hundreds of sets, ready in the app
- Repeat, read aloud and shadow model answers, scored on your device
- Progress kept per skill and per task
Calm by design, in any light.
Literata for reading and Atkinson Hyperlegible for everything else, and the voice marked in highlighter yellow unless you choose another colour.
The icon speaks
Lines of text with the voice woven through them, ending at a playhead that speaks. Sky by day, Night where your device goes dark.
Opens without a flash
On iPhone, iPad and Android the launch screen is the colour of the first page, light or dark, so the app arrives quietly.
Eight reading themes
Four for daylight and four for the dark, and any colour you like for the voice's mark. Try the themes in the demo above.
Your recordings stay on your device.
Listening, word timing, scoring and the dictionary all run on your phone or computer. There is nothing to sign up for.
Runs on the device
Speech recognition and word alignment run locally — even in flight mode.
No account
Open the app and start. No email, no password, no profile.
You choose what leaves
AI meanings and translation are optional, and use the service you pick.
Sync through your own cloud
One library on every device, through iCloud or a folder you choose.
For learners of every first language
If your English is somewhere between B1 and C1 and you learn best from real voices, ReadAloud is built for you.
Exam candidates
Listening and speaking practice for IELTS, TOEFL, PTE and the Duolingo English Test.
English at work
Meetings, talks and podcasts from your field, practised sentence by sentence.
Lifelong learners
Whatever you enjoy listening to becomes a lesson, at your own pace.
Questions, answered
Do I need an internet connection?
Only to download the app and its speech models, once. After that, listening, timing, practice and the dictionary all work offline.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, Macs with Apple silicon on macOS 14 or later, and Android 10 or later. Windows 10 and 11 follow.
What can I bring in?
Audio (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OGG), video (MP4, MOV, MKV), EPUB books, PDFs and web articles — with or without a transcript.
Is my first language supported?
Yes. Meanings and translations come in more than 20 languages, and where yours isn't one of them you get clear English definitions. The app's interface is in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese today, with more on the way.
How is this different from a text-to-speech app?
ReadAloud is built around real recordings — real speakers, real accents — and times every word so you can practise with them. When you only have text, it can read it aloud with your device's voices.
What does it cost?
Nothing while ReadAloud is in beta. AI meanings and translation use a service you choose, with your own key, or Apple Intelligence where your device has it.
Get ReadAloud
Coming to the App Store, Google Play and the Microsoft Store. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it's out.
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