Listen — the internet, read out loud.

…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, Listen 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. Listen 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

A E F O N S

🎙 Podcast 📰 News Brief 🌙 Storytime 🍵 Study Calm 🎓 Lecture ⚡ Speedrun

1.25×

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 — Listen finds the article and skips the junk.

Google Docs

A clean reader view with full highlighting — even where Docs hides its text.

PDFs & selections

Snap a page or highlight any passage — if you can see it, you can hear it.

Gmail

Newsletters and novel-length threads — select the email and press play.

The internet,
read out loud.

Every word,
lit as it's spoken.

Reading is easy.
Retaining is the flex.

Everything dims.
Except your place.

Save it now.
Hear it later.

Six voices.
Every mood.

If it has words,
it plays.

Your reading list,
read to you.

Every word,lit as it's spoken.

Reading is easy.Retaining is the flex.

Everything dims.Except your place.

Save it now.Hear it later.

Six voices.Every mood.

If it has words,it plays.

Your reading list,read to you.

Every word,
lit as it's spoken.

Reading is easy.
Retaining is the flex.

Everything dims.
Except your place.

Save it now.
Hear it later.

Six voices.
Every mood.

If it has words,
it plays.

Your reading list,
read to you.