For iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo
Tap any sentence.
Hear the story.
Mind's Ear reads your e-books aloud in a natural voice made right on your iPhone or iPad. Each word lights up as it's spoken, the pages turn themselves, and nothing you read ever leaves your device.
- No account
- No ads
- No tracking
- Works offline
CHAPTER I.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
On your shelf from the start
Four classics, read aloud free. Always.
Open the app and there's a library waiting, each book opening where its story starts. Then add as many of your own as you like.
Lewis Carroll, 1865
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
Mary Shelley, 1818
L. Frank Baum, 1900
How it works
From page to voice in a tap
No setup, no account and nothing to download after the app itself. The voice comes with it.
- 1
Add a book
EPUB, PDF or plain text, from Files, Mail or Safari. Or drag a stack of them onto your iPad at once.
- 2
Tap a sentence
It reads from there, lighting up each word as it's spoken, and turning the pages as it goes.
- 3
Listen anywhere
Lock your phone and put it in your pocket. Pause or skip from your headphones or the Lock Screen.
Every word, lit as it's spoken
Follow along, look away, or come back: the highlight always shows where the voice is, and the pages turn with it.
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
Reads on with the screen locked
The book and chapter on your Lock Screen, with play, pause and skip.
No internet needed
The voice is made on your device, so it reads in airplane mode too.
Jump back
Leafed ahead while it reads? One tap takes you back to the voice.
EPUB, PDF and text
Made for everyone
VoiceOver, the largest text sizes, and OpenDyslexic, a font for dyslexia.
Many windows
On iPad, open books side by side, each in a window of its own.
54 voices
Voices made on your iPhone
Natural, expressive voices from the Kokoro speech model, running on your device's own processor. Press play: these are the app's voices, reading from the books it comes with.
All 54, by the accent they read English with
- American English · 20
- British English · 8
- Mandarin Chinese · 8
- Japanese · 5
- Hindi · 4
- Spanish · 3
- Brazilian Portuguese · 3
- Italian · 2
- French · 1
From half speed to double, in steps of a quarter.
Read your way
A page that suits you
Three typefaces, any size, four page colours and three margins. Try them: this is how the app sets a page.
Chapter I
The Cyclone
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
Every screen
Made for the device in your hand
Not one layout stretched to fit, but one for each: a book in your pocket, a spread on your iPad, and on iPhone Duo, a book that opens.
Two pages, side by side
- Turn it sideways for a two-page spread, like a printed book
- Turn pages with a keyboard or trackpad, or drop books onto it from Files
- Open several books, each in a window of its own
Private by design
Your books never leave your device.
Many read-aloud apps send what you read to a server for their best voices. Mind's Ear makes its voice right on your iPhone or iPad, so what you read stays between you and the page.
Read the privacy policyNo account
Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to sign in to.
No tracking
No analytics, no advertising, no data brokers. None.
Made on device
The voice runs on your device's own processor.
Kept on device
Your books, your place and your settings are never uploaded.
Data Not Collected
What the app's privacy label on the App Store says, because it's true.
Pricing
Free to read. One subscription to hear the rest.
Free
For as long as you like
$0
- Four classics, read aloud
- Read any book you add
- Your whole library, every reading setting
- No account, no ads
Mind's Ear Annual
Every book you add, read aloud
7-Days Free Trial
$14.99 / year
- Everything that's free
- Every book you add, read aloud
- All 54 voices, at any speed
Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically each year unless it's cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in Settings › your name › Subscriptions. Prices are in US dollars, and vary by country. See the Terms of Use.
Questions
Asked and answered
Is it free?
Yes, to download and to read with. The four books it comes with read aloud free, always, and you can read any book, and use your library and every reading setting, without paying. To hear the books you add, there's Mind's Ear Annual: $14.99 a year, with a 7-Days Free Trial if you haven't had one.
Does it need the internet?
No. The voice is made on your iPhone or iPad, by a speech model that comes with the app, so it reads aloud in airplane mode, on the underground or in the middle of nowhere. The app goes online only to reach the App Store, for the subscription.
Which books can it read?
EPUB, PDF and plain-text books, from Files, iCloud Drive, Mail, Safari's downloads, or anywhere else you keep them. Books with DRM, such as those bought from Apple Books or Kindle, can't be opened: Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and many publishers sell or give away books without it.
Which languages does it read?
English. Of the 54 voices, 28 are American and British English, and 26 more read English with a Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese or Mandarin accent.
Does it keep reading with the screen locked?
Yes. Lock your phone, put it in your pocket, and it reads on. Pause it, or skip back or ahead a sentence, from the Lock Screen, Control Center or your headphones. It pauses for calls, and when your headphones come out.
What happens to my books?
They stay on your device. There's no account, nothing is uploaded, and the app has no analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. Keep the original files in Files or iCloud Drive to add them on another device.
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Start with Alice.
She's on your shelf the moment you open the app, ready to be read to you. Free.