Readastic

Listen to the articles you save.

Share a link from your browser or follow the blogs you read. Readastic reads each article aloud on your device, even with no signal, and highlights every word as it’s spoken.

Readastic’s player on iPhone playing the saved Ars Technica article “NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings”, 37 seconds in.

Read aloud, this page runs 3:17.

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Listen later.

Found a long read you don’t have time for? Share it from your browser and choose Readastic. The article text goes into your library without the menus and ads around it, and waits there until you tap Listen.

Readastic library with followed blogs from Benedict Evans, Simon Willison and Stratechery above saved articles from Ars Technica, The Verge and Benedict Evans, with the NASA article playing.

Follow the writers you read.

Add a blog by its web address or RSS feed. New posts collect under Followed blogs, and each blog can notify you when something new arrives. Save a post and it’s ready to listen to.

Followed blog page for Stratechery by Ben Thompson with a New post notifications switch above its latest articles.
Read-along view on iPhone in dark appearance: the NASA article with the words already spoken bright and the rest of the paragraph grey above the player controls.

Follow every spoken word.

Each word lights up as the voice reaches it, and the rest of the page waits in grey. Missed a sentence on a busy street? Skip back 15 seconds, or tap a passage to hear it again.

  • Speed

    0.5× for a dense essay, up to 3× for the news.

  • Skip

    Back 15 seconds or ahead 30.

  • Resume

    Each article picks up where you stopped.

  • Lock screen

    Play, pause and skip without unlocking your device.

No signal? Keep listening.

Voice settings listing the built-in American English voices, under the note that offline narration is included with Readastic.

Readastic’s voices run on your device, so a saved article reads aloud on a plane, underground or with Wi‑Fi off.

Choose the voice you like in Settings. The voices come with the app, so there’s nothing to download.

Up next sheet in dark appearance: the NASA article now playing, with saved articles from The Verge and Benedict Evans queued after it.

Line up your next good read.

Add articles to Up next and drag them into the order you want. If one doesn’t have audio yet, Readastic prepares it when its turn comes.

Your library lives on your device.

You don’t create an account, and we don’t run a server that stores your library. Readastic’s built-in voices narrate on your device.

Readastic sends app usage events and crash reports to Firebase unless you turn off Usage and diagnostics in Settings. The privacy policy lists every service the app contacts.

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Get Readastic on your iPhone

Scan the code with your iPhone’s camera to open the App Store.

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