SpeakCove - Text to Speech

A text-to-speech reader that's actually free. No trials, no time limits, no paywalls on basic features. Just open it and listen.

Want more? Unlock everything for $14.99 - once. No subscription, ever.

FREE - NO CATCH

- Natural-sounding neural voices - not the robotic ones other apps hide behind a paywall
- Read PDFs, ePubs, MOBI, DOCX, FB2, CBZ, RTF, TXT, and HTML
- 31 languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Adjustable speed (0.75x – 1.75x) and sleep timer
- Free book store - thousands of public domain classics from Project Gutenberg, ready to listen
- No account needed, no sign-up, no forced anything

PREMIUM - $14.99. ONCE. FOREVER.

- 8 additional voices - more characters to choose from
- Background playback - listen while cooking, commuting, exercising
- Every future feature and voice update included

100% OFFLINE - YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY PRIVATE

Everything runs on your device. No internet needed - works in airplane mode, on your commute, anywhere. No cloud processing, no data collection, no servers. Your text never leaves your iPhone.

CARPLAY - LISTEN WHILE YOU DRIVE

Connect to your car and keep listening. SpeakCove works with CarPlay - browse your library, pick up where you left off, and control playback right from your dashboard. No phone interaction needed.

BUILT FOR REAL USE

- Document scanner - scan physical books and papers with your camera, then listen
- PDF viewer with real-time sentence highlighting + OCR for scanned pages
- iCloud sync for your library and settings
- Home screen widgets
- Full VoiceOver support

No sign-up. No subscription. Start listening in seconds.