VocaRead is an iOS app that transforms your EPUB, PDF, and Kindle (MOBI/AZW3) ebooks into audiobooks using natural AI text-to-speech voices. It works 100% offline on your iPhone and iPad.
Yes! VocaRead is free to download and use. You get 90 minutes of free listening per book. The Premium upgrade (one-time payment, no subscription) unlocks unlimited listening.
Absolutely. VocaRead works entirely offline. You download your preferred voices once, and then everything runs on your device without any internet connection.
VocaRead supports EPUB, PDF, and Kindle formats (MOBI, AZW, AZW3). You can also paste any text — an article, an email, a note — and listen to it instantly. Free classics are available through the built-in Project Gutenberg library.
Over 30 languages with more than 80 voices in total, including 20 premium voices. Each language offers multiple high-quality options, like English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and many more.
VocaRead is available on iPhone and iPad, with an Apple Watch companion app and CarPlay support. An Android version may come in the future.
Yes. VocaRead processes everything locally on your device, and the optional iCloud sync uses your personal, private iCloud account. Your books and reading data are never visible to us. We don't collect any personal information.
VocaRead ships its own neural text-to-speech engines, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine on your device. The voices sound natural with proper intonation, rhythm, and expression — far from the robotic voices of the past. You can even fix the pronunciation of any word.
Yes. Control playback right from your Apple Watch — including a Now Reading complication on your watch face — and listen in the car with full CarPlay support.
Yes. Reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, and custom pronunciations sync privately through your personal iCloud across iPhone and iPad. No account needed, nothing to set up.
VocaRead has the entire Project Gutenberg library built in — tens of thousands of free, public-domain classics you can search by title, author or language and start listening to in seconds. Think Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and many more, at no extra cost.
Just long-press the word and teach VocaRead how to say it. Your correction is saved per language and applies everywhere — perfect for character names, foreign words, brand names or acronyms. The fix syncs across your devices via iCloud.
Many readers use VocaRead for exactly this. Hearing each sentence while the current line is highlighted makes dense text far easier to follow, and you can adjust the speed, choose a comfortable voice, and rest your eyes entirely whenever you need to.
Absolutely. Import PDF, EPUB and Kindle files from your device, or simply paste any text — an article, an email, a report — and VocaRead reads it aloud immediately, with smart handling of chapters, hyphenation and layout.