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What ReadGoodr does

ReadGoodr is a text-to-speech reader for iPhone. You give it a URL, a PDF, a scanned book, or text from the clipboard, and it reads back in a human voice. The whole app is designed around one thing: the shortest possible path from “I want to read this” to “I'm listening to it.”

When you install ReadGoodr it adds a button to Control Center, the same place as your flashlight and camera shortcuts.

1. 1

   Copy

   Text or a URL from anywhere — browser, email, chat.

2. 2

   Swipe

   Pull down Control Center where your flashlight lives.

3. 3

   Tap

   Hit the ReadGoodr button. The app opens and starts reading.

That's the entire flow. No file picker, no “choose a voice” modal, no waiting for a model to spin up.

Paste a link and ReadGoodr strips the noise: publication dates, image captions, photo credits, related-story sidebars. It keeps the headline, the lead, and the body, and lays them out so the page looks roughly like the original but with only the parts you actually want read aloud.

Curved pages from a physical book are usually a problem for OCR. ReadGoodr handles them. Scan a spread, a single page, or a stack of documents, and it reads back in the language the text is written in.

Connect Dropbox or Google Drive. PDFs in your cloud storage become readable without downloading them first.

If a voice feels wrong after the first paragraph, change it. The audio continues from where you were, in the new voice. For languages that have regional dialects, you can pick one. Sometimes the standard voice is right. Sometimes it's more fun to hear a Swedish piece in Scanian. You decide.

Paste, type, or dictate into ReadGoodr directly. Useful for proofreading your own writing by ear, or for converting a note into something you can listen to on a walk.

Two main screens. A library sorted by date with source favicons. And the player itself, where you can:

• Play, pause, jump backStandard transport controls, made big enough to use without looking.
• Speed up to 3×Without the voice turning into a chipmunk.
• Switch voice or dialectMid-paragraph. Audio continues from where you were.
• Tap any wordThe audio jumps and starts reading from that point.
• Save to favoritesAnything in your library can be pinned.

The current line stays in the middle of the screen and the text scrolls up underneath it, the way a teleprompter does. If you scroll ahead to skim, a small button brings you back to wherever the audio is. Eyes and ears can take turns without you losing your place.

ReadGoodr runs on iPhone. iOS only, for now. Swedish and English are the two languages we test most. Dozens of others work, and we're paying attention to which ones people actually use before we promise full support.