Hard to focus? Follow every word.
Hearing a word and seeing it lit at the same moment gives a wandering mind two ways in and one anchor. Look away, and a glance finds your place again. Made with ADHD and dyslexia in mind.
Read aloud and study, on iPhone and iPad
Hear it. See it. Learn it.
Tellable reads your textbooks, lecture PDFs, scanned handouts and articles aloud in a natural voice, and lights up each word as it is spoken. Then, with Apple Intelligence, it helps you learn them: summarize a chapter, ask it questions and test yourself with flashcards. It all runs on your device, so it works offline and your reading stays yours.
Five documents free. Pro is one payment, or yearly if you prefer. iOS 18 or later; summaries, Ask and flashcards need Apple Intelligence on iOS 26.
- Scanned pages
- Lecture slides
- Word
- EPUB
- DRM-free Kindle
- Web articles
- Photos
- Screenshots
- Markdown
- RTF
- Pasted text
Made for studying
Your reading list,
now a playlist.
The chapter on the bus, the paper on a walk, the handout before the seminar. Listen at up to 3x while your eyes follow the word, and keep your place when your mind drifts.
On the bus
Week 6's lecture PDF at 1.75x. The coral box keeps your eyes exactly where the voice is.
In the library
Scan four pages of the book on reserve. Tellable splits an open book into its two pages and reads them in order.
Writing the essay
Ask where the paper defines its terms, with Apple Intelligence. Hear the answer, with the page it came from, and save it as a note.
At the gym
Lock the phone and keep listening. Play, pause and skip from the Lock Screen or your earbuds.
In bed
Set the sleep timer to the end of the chapter, then pick up tomorrow exactly where you stopped.
Academic papers, read like a person would.
Clean Read skips page numbers, running headers, footnote marks and citations like [2–5]. Numbers, dates, units and money come out the way you would say them.
Notes and flashcards you can listen to.
Bookmark the sentences that matter or write a note on them, or have Tellable make flashcards from the chapter with Apple Intelligence. The night before the exam, play just those sentences back, or run the deck with your eyes closed, with Pro.
Try it here
Every word, as it is spoken.
This is the app's highlight, timed word by word. Tap any word to read from its sentence, or change the speed. In the app you hear the voice too.
- The box snaps to each word, the tint follows the sentence
- "$1,200" stays one word on the page
- The text never moves under the highlight
Photosynthesis turns light into sugar, one leaf at a time. A single oak can make about $1,200 worth of shade a year. Tap any word to jump there.
What it does
From paper to voice in a few seconds.
Frame the page. Watch it read.
The camera draws a frame for one page or an open book and takes the shot when the page is lined up and sharp. Then each line lights up as it is recognized, so you can see nothing was missed. Columns, two-page spreads and photos from your library all work.
Hear the words, not the clutter.
Page numbers, headers, footnote marks and citations are skipped out loud, but stay on the page, dimmed. Tap one to hear it, or jump to its footnote.
Tables that make sense out loud.
Rows are read with their headers, so every number comes with its name. Long tables can be skipped, and a tap reads one when you want it.
Fonts and pages that ease reading.
Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic, on a white, cream or dark page, at the text size that suits you, up to the largest. The highlight keeps up whatever you choose.
One word at a time, in time with the voice.
The full player shows each word large and centred, its focus letter in coral, so your eyes never have to travel. Turn the phone sideways and the words fill the screen.
Ask your document a question.
Tellable finds the answer in the pages, reads it aloud and names the page it came from. Save it as a note right there for revision. Works with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26, with Pro.
The chapter, summed up and read aloud.
Get a summary of one chapter or the whole book, with its key points and a page-by-page view, then listen to it while the spoken word is boxed. It stays with the document for next time. With Apple Intelligence on iOS 26, with Pro.
Flashcards from your reading.
Tellable writes study notes or a deck of flashcards from the document, to the focus you type. Flip a card, jump to the page it came from, or let Listen read question, pause, answer for you. With Apple Intelligence on iOS 26, with Pro.
Every course in one place.
PDFs, books, scans and articles side by side, with covers and progress. Sort them into collections, search inside every document, and turn on iCloud sync to see them on your iPad too.
Words as they are spoken
Eyes still. Mind moving.
The focus letter sits in the same spot for every word, so you read without moving your eyes. In the app it runs in time with the voice, and turning the phone sideways fills the screen.
Natural voices, built in
Eight voices.
No signal needed.
American and British voices live on your device and work from the first launch. Nothing to download, no word limits, no credits. Read on a plane, in a tunnel, in a library basement.
- Anna
- Ben
- Lucy British
- Kate
- Jack
- Mia
- Sarah
- Tom
Private by design
Your reading stays yours.
Your documents never leave your device, and there is no account. Tellable shares only anonymous usage, which you can turn off, and otherwise goes online only to fetch a link you paste. iCloud sync is off until you turn it on, and then it uses your own private iCloud, which we cannot see.
- Data collected
- None
- Account to make
- None
- Ads and trackers
- None
- Internet needed
- Only for links
Pricing
Five free. Then pay once.
Try it on real coursework before you pay. No free trial, so no surprise charge, and Family Sharing is included.
Free
For good, not a trial
- Five documents in your library
- Every voice, American and British
- Word highlighting and Clean Read
- Scanning, PDFs, books and links
Lifetime or Yearly
Pay once and it is yours forever, or choose a yearly plan. A reminder comes three days before a yearly plan renews, if you want one.
- Unlimited documents
- Ask your documents questions
- Summaries and study guides with flashcards
- Up Next queue
- Save any document as audio
- Play notes and share them as audio
Ask, summaries and flashcards use Apple Intelligence, on your device: iOS 26 on an iPhone or iPad that supports it.
Questions
Does it really work with no internet?
Yes. The voices, the scanning and the reading all run on your iPhone or iPad. Only fetching a web link needs a connection.
Will it read my textbook?
If you can open it on your phone as a PDF, EPUB, Word file or DRM-free Kindle file, or point the camera at it, Tellable can read it. Books bought with copy protection stay locked: Tellable never removes it.
Can it read lecture slides and scanned handouts?
Yes. Slides saved as a PDF read slide by slide, and scanned pages are read on your device, including two-column layouts.
Do Ask, summaries and study guides send my documents anywhere?
No. They use Apple Intelligence on your device. They need iOS 26 on an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, and Tellable Pro.
Can I use it on my iPhone and my iPad?
Yes. Tellable is one app for both, with a layout made for each. Turn on iCloud sync and your library and reading place follow you.
Hear any page. Offline.
Start with five documents, free.
