Join the waitlist

Listen offline on your iPhone, Airplane Mode included

Download the voice once and hear your PDFs, books and saved pages with no connection, in Airplane Mode, in tunnels and abroad.

Aloudeo Listening DeskUpdated November 3, 20262 min read
Short answer

Download the voice once, the first time you press play. After that you hear everything on your shelf with no connection, and you only need internet to add a new web page.

Most natural-sounding voices run on a server: every sentence goes out, the audio comes back, and nothing plays without signal. The Aloudeo voices run on your iPhone itself.

Get the voice once

The first time you press play, your phone downloads the voice. Stay online for about a minute. After that, everything plays offline.

What works without a connection

You want toOffline
Play anything on your shelfYes
Open a PDF, an EPUB or a Word file from FilesYes
Scan a paper pageYes
Add a new web pageNo: it needs to load once

Keep your reading private

No word you hear goes to a server, and you make no account. When you buy Pro, Apple and RevenueCat keep a record of the purchase.

Questions you ask about this

How big is the voice download?
Big enough to need a minute on Wi-Fi the first time. After that, nothing downloads again for the voices you use.
Does anything I read go to a server?
No. Your text and your files stay on your phone the whole time.
Do web pages work offline?
Once a page sits on your shelf, yes. Opening a new link needs a connection.

Listen to your own PDFs and books.

Open a PDF, an ebook or a web page on your iPhone, press play, and listen offline. Join the list for launch day.

Read next

Features

Follow the sentence you hear, lit on the page

Press play and the sentence you hear lights up violet, the page moves with it, and a tap on any sentence jumps the voice there. See how the highlight works and where it stops.

Moments

Get your reading done on the commute

Hear the articles, reports and books you saved while you drive, ride or walk, with the voice on your iPhone and your hands free.

Formats

Listen to any web page you share from Safari

Share an article from Safari or paste a link, and hear the story in a natural voice without menus, ads, cookie banners or citation brackets.

Features

Hear the words and skip the clutter on every page

Links, citation brackets, footnote marks, page numbers and pronunciation guides stay off the voice, and you hear titles, numbers and symbols the way a person reads them.