Listen, don’t just read.
Real books. A natural-sounding voice. Every word highlighted as it’s spoken — generated entirely on your iPhone, never on a server.
Free. No account. No ads.
See it. Hear it.
A real page, read the way it actually sounds.
Screen-recorded on an actual iPhone 17 Pro, with the voice generated live on the phone. The current sentence highlights word by word, in time with the narration. Tap play and turn your volume up.
The three things that matter
01
A voice worth listening to
Most text-to-speech sounds like a machine reading at you. LightReadr’s narration comes from a neural voice model that runs on your phone — natural pacing and intonation, not a flat word-by-word recitation.
02
Follow along, or jump right in
Every word highlights as it’s spoken, so your eyes and ears stay in the same place. Tap any sentence on the page and narration picks up right there — no scrubbing back to find your spot.
03
Your books stay private
Narration is generated on-device. Your books, your highlights, the words spoken aloud — none of it is sent to LightReadr’s servers. There’s no account to make. Optional, content-free Product Insights are off by default and explained before you choose.
Your library is already waiting
Hundreds of thousands of books. Free.
The world’s great public-domain libraries give away classics by the shelf-load. Download any free ebook, open it in LightReadr, and press play. Five are already on your shelf when you open the app.
Project Gutenberg
70,000+ free ebooks. The original digital library.
Standard Ebooks
Classics, carefully typeset. The most beautiful editions you’ll find free.
Internet Archive
A vast collection. Public-domain titles come with a free download.
How to get free ebooks onto your iPhone and hear them read aloud
Everything else
Real features. Just not the reason you’ll download it.
Several natural voices
Pick the one that fits the book. Switch any time from the reader.
Read or listen, any time
Switch to narration mid-page and back — your place is kept either way.
Completely free
No account, no subscription, no ads.
Your place, everywhere
Progress and highlights sync via your own iCloud account. Book files stay local to each device.
Make the page yours
Font, theme, and margins — remembered per book.
Keep listening, screen off
Lock your phone and narration keeps going.
Built for iPhone. Works with free and unlocked ebooks, like those from Project Gutenberg. Books bought in the Kindle or Apple Books stores are locked to those apps, so they won’t open here. PDF support isn’t here yet.
Your books are waiting to be heard.
Download on the App StoreNot ready yet? Email us and we’ll let you know about new voices and features.