Class reading
A chapter for class
Photograph the pages, press play and follow the highlight from the first line to the last.
Reading with ADHD. Listen, and follow the highlight.
Photograph a page, open a PDF or paste text, and Outloud Reader reads it aloud while each phrase lights up as it’s spoken. Many people find it easier to stay with a text when they hear it and see it at the same time.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
Outloud Reader reads a page aloud while each phrase is highlighted, so if your attention drifts, you can see where the voice is and find your place again. Listen and read together or hide the text and just listen, slow the voice down, or repeat a sentence up to five times. It isn’t a treatment or a test; many people simply find a text easier to stay with when they hear it and see it at once.
How to focus while reading:
let the voice lead.
Bring a page, press play and follow along, at your own pace.
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Bring the page
Photograph pages one after another, pick photos from your gallery, choose pages from a PDF, or paste text.
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Press play, follow the highlight
The phrase being spoken is highlighted, its sentence is set in black and the rest of the page waits in grey, so it’s easy to see where you are.
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Lost your place? Find the highlight
If your attention drifts, the highlight shows where the voice is, so you can find your place again.
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Your pace
Slow the voice down to 0.5× or speed it up to 1.25×, and repeat a sentence up to five times.
An ADHD reading app? A voice to follow on the page.
Many people find these help most:
- Listen and read together: hear each phrase as it lights up on the page.
- Take it a page at a time: a long pasted text is split into pages of up to 2,500 characters.
- Yes. Hide the text and listen, and hold to check a line whenever you want to see it.
- Light, sepia or dark, with contrast, text size and line spacing to suit you.
- Every book stays in your library, so you can come back to it later and play it again for free.
Text to speech for ADHD,
for the reading that piles up.
The texts that are hard to stay with on your own.
Work
A long email or a report
Paste it into the app and hear it read aloud while each phrase lights up.
Forms
Letters and forms
Photograph the letter or the form, and hear it read aloud one phrase at a time.
Long reads
The article you saved
Paste it in and listen; look at the page whenever you want to see where the voice is.
Your next page, read aloud.
Outloud Reader for iOS and Android. Your first 5 pages are free.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Questions people ask.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Is this an app for ADHD?
It’s a text to speech app for anyone who would rather listen, or listen and read together. It isn’t a treatment or a test, and it isn’t only for ADHD; many people simply find a spoken, highlighted text easier to stay with.
How does it show where I am?
The phrase being spoken is highlighted and its sentence set in black, while the rest of the page waits in grey. If your attention drifts, look for the highlight to find your place again.
Can I just listen, without looking at the text?
Yes. Hide the text and listen, and hold to check a line whenever you want to see it.
Can I change how the text looks?
Yes. Choose light, sepia or dark, and set the contrast, the text size and the line spacing to suit you.