Listen to articles, PDFs, documents and notes in the iPhone's own voices, with every word highlighted as it is read. Free to listen, works offline, and a one time Pro upgrade instead of a yearly subscription. No ads, no account, no tracking.
Popular reading apps charge over $100 a year to read your own documents aloud. Plain Read uses the voices already on your iPhone, for free.
Paste text, open a PDF or document from Files, or bring in an article from a web address. Scanned PDFs are read too: their pages are recognized on your iPhone.
The sentence being read is highlighted and the spoken word is underlined. Tap any paragraph to jump there; skip back or forward a sentence at a time.
Choose any voice installed on your iPhone, from 0.5x to 3x speed. If you have made a Personal Voice, Plain Read can read to you in it.
Reading continues with the screen locked or in another app, with play and pause on the lock screen, and a sleep timer for bedtime.
Everything stays on your device. Text is spoken by the voices built into iOS. No account, no ads, no analytics, nothing uploaded to us.
Listening is always free and the free library keeps 5 items. Pro is a single $4.99 payment for an unlimited library and reading printed pages from your camera or photos.