EPUB · PDF · DOCX · RTF · TXT

Listen to your eBooks
at your own pace.

Cadence Reader reads your books aloud using the text-to-speech voices already on your device. It keeps playing with the screen off, and highlights each sentence as it is spoken.

What it does

Import a book. Press play. Keep going with the screen off.

Read aloud with system voices

Every voice already installed on your device works, ready the moment you press play.

Follow along

The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and you can tap any sentence to carry on from there.

Background playback

Keeps reading with the screen off, with controls on the lock screen and in the notification shade.

Resume where you left off

Your place is saved per book, with a home-screen widget to jump straight back in.

Sleep timer

Set a duration and playback stops automatically at the end of it.

Voice, speed and pitch

Tune the narration to something you can follow comfortably, per book if you like.

A calm reading screen

The screen shows the book and follows the narration. Nothing else competes with it for attention.

Built for long sessions

Reads for hours with the screen off, using little battery or memory while it does.

Your library, your files

Bring documents and recordings you already have.

Cadence Reader works with DRM-free files. Books locked to Kindle, Apple Books or Kobo cannot be opened.

Documents

EPUB PDF DOCX RTF TXT

Recordings, treated as spoken books

MP3 M4A M4B FLAC and more

Pricing

One book, free. A full library on Plus.

Reading and the Free tier don't need an account. Turn one on if you want Cadence Plus or cross-device sync.

Free

One book or recording at a time, swap it whenever you like.

  • Every format, every system voice
  • Speed, pitch, sentence pause, skip interval
  • Sentence and word highlighting
  • Themes, fonts and per-book settings
  • Sleep timer