The internet,
read out loud.

Articles, docs and email read aloud in a real voice, with every word lit up as it is spoken — plus PDFs, ePubs and photos of printed pages. Then it quizzes you, so it actually sticks.

…kept alive by careful readers for centuries. You copy down, by hand, the lines that stop you when you read — and slowly the notebook becomes a personal anthology…
Follows along

Every word,
lit as it's spoken.

A real voice reads the page while a glowing highlight traces it word by word. Your eyes and ears lock together — no losing your place, no re-reading the same paragraph four times.

See it live
Proves you got it

Reading is easy.
Retaining is the flex.

When the reading ends, ListenReader asks. A quick quiz built from exactly what you heard, recaps on demand, and tap-a-word definitions — the only reader that checks comprehension, not just checkboxes.

Try Quiz Me
Q2 of 4 — What finally replaced every productivity app?
A color-coded second brain
✓ A plain paper notebook
A new reading system
Every few months I promised myself a fresh start — a new app, a new system, a new color-coded second brain.
What finally worked was not software at all, but a plain paper notebook and a habit that is almost two thousand years old.
You copy down, by hand, the lines that stop you when you read — and slowly the notebook becomes a personal anthology.
Focus mode

Everything dims.
Except your place.

One tap drops a spotlight on the paragraph being read and fades the rest of the page — ads, sidebars, that other tab calling your name. Built for brains that wander; the light doesn't.

Turn the lights down
Save & resume

Save it now.
Hear it later.

One tap banks any page to your library. ListenReader remembers the exact word you stopped on — close the tab, switch devices, come back Thursday — and greets you with a Continue button, not paragraph one.

See your queue
M The Psychology of Money 62%
D Bio 201 — Week 5 Reading done
P Q3_market_report.pdf 18%
▶ Continue — 38% left
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Voices & tones

Six voices.
Every mood.

Pick your narrator, set the vibe — Podcast for the commute, Study Calm for the library, Speedrun when it's due at midnight — and run it anywhere from 0.75× to 2×. Your reading list never sounded this good.

Hear the voices
Works everywhere

If it has words,
it plays.

No copy-pasting into another app. One extension, every kind of reading.

Web articles
Medium, news, newsletters — ListenReader finds the article and skips the junk.
Google Docs
A clean reader view with full highlighting — even where Docs hides its text.
PDF
PDFs & selections
Photograph a printed page, open a PDF or ePub, or highlight any passage. PDFs play as audio — the word highlighting needs a web page.
Gmail
Newsletters and novel-length threads — select the email and press play.

Your reading list,
read to you.

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