🐈 OutloudReader

Read the book you already own — in the language you're learning.

Photograph a page. OutloudReader recognises the text, translates it into the language you're studying, and reads that translation aloud — highlighting each word as it is spoken, so your eyes and ears stay together.

1Photograph the page. A paper book, a printed handout, a sign on a wall. No ebook file needed, no library to join.
2It becomes a lesson. The text is recognised and translated into your target language, sentence by sentence.
3Listen and follow. The translation is spoken aloud and every word lights up as it is said. Slow it down, repeat a sentence, step back one line.

Why it is built this way

Apps that read pages aloud read them in the language they were printed in. Apps that translate a photograph hand you a wall of text and stop. Neither helps the person sitting with a paper book in a language they are still learning.

OutloudReader does the one thing those two miss: it gives you the page in the language you're learning, spoken, with the word you are hearing marked on the screen.

What it costs

One purchase. No subscription. You buy the app once and it is yours — every feature, no monthly bill, nothing to cancel.

The purchase includes a monthly allowance: 10 lessons a day, 300 photographed pages and 250,000 characters of speech a month. It resets every month and is enough for daily reading.

If you read more than that, a pack adds 250,000 characters and 300 pages to the current month. Also a one-off purchase, also not a subscription.

What it does not do

No account. No email, no password, no sign-up screen. Your purchase is your identity.
No ads, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics.
Your photographs are not kept. They are recognised and discarded — see Privacy.

The cat

OutloudReader is named after nothing at all, but it is drawn after Chucha — a real cat, whose portrait became the icon. She reads to you now.