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An iPhone app that reads books, PDFs and web articles aloud
PageEcho reads books, PDFs, web articles and notes aloud on iPhone and iPad with voices that run on the device. It is free to download, and Apple and Kitten voices are free with no limit.
On-device text-to-speech voices on iPhone, compared
PageEcho offers seven voice engines that run on the iPhone itself. Apple and Kitten voices are free with no limit; Supertonic, Kokoro, Kokoro Deutsch, Qwen3 and MOSS are free for 10 chapters per engine each month.
How to have a PDF read aloud on iPhone
Open the PDF in PageEcho and tap play, and your iPhone reads it aloud. The app is free to download, and Apple and Kitten voices are free with no limit.
How to listen to EPUB books on iPhone
Open the EPUB in PageEcho and tap play; it reads the book aloud and highlights the sentence being read. MOBI, AZW3 and FB2 work the same way; books with DRM cannot be opened.
How to listen to web articles on iPhone
In Safari or another browser, tap Share and choose PageEcho; the article's text lands in your library, and play reads it aloud. You can also copy the link and paste it into PageEcho.
How to listen to arXiv papers on iPhone
Search arXiv in the store inside PageEcho, download a paper, and play reads the PDF aloud. Summaries and questions run on the iPhone with Apple Intelligence or a downloaded Gemma model.