The fast one
Starts speaking within seconds and keeps generating faster than you can listen. Battery-friendly, runs in the background, and it's the engine everyone gets for free.
Audiobooks for the books, papers, feeds, and files
you actually want to read.
Drop any EPUB, PDF, or article into Chorus Reader and a voice you choose, even your own, reads it back to you. Everything runs on your iPhone.
iPhone & iPad · Free · Works offline · iOS 26
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Pick a voice.
Every voice below reads the same sentence, generated by the engine named on the tab. Tap one to hear it.
13 voices
All 97 voices on one page · the three engines on fourteen kinds of text
Everything you'd rather listen to than read.
The half-finished EPUB on your iPad. The PDF a friend sent. The Substack you saved for later. The textbook nobody bothered to record.
Drop any text into Chorus Reader and a voice you choose, even your own, reads it back to you. Everything happens on your phone. You can be in airplane mode, on a subway, anywhere. The voice never leaves the device.
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Drop a file
EPUB, PDF, plain text, Word, Pages, or an article shared from Safari. Chapters detected.
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Pick a voice
40+ voices in six languages. Or clone your own.
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Listen
Audio streams as it generates. Background-safe, with a sleep timer.
Choose how it sounds.
Chorus Reader bundles a small library of on-device engines. Each one is good at something different. You don't have to know which is which. Just listen and pick.
The voice cloner
Record fifteen seconds of any voice and your book reads back in it. Yours, a friend's, a favorite narrator. All on-device.
The expressive one
Detects dialogue and gives each character their own voice. The most expressive of the three, and it takes its time.
Every engine runs on your device. None of them phone home.
Hear all three read a novel, a poem, a play, a paper and ten other kinds of text.
Clone any voice from fifteen seconds of audio.
Record a short sample, or import an audio file you already have. Chorus Reader captures the timbre, pace, and character of the voice and uses it to narrate your entire book.
It can be your own voice, a loved one’s, or a favorite narrator’s. All the processing happens on the device. The recording never leaves your phone.
- Sample needed
- 15 seconds with Personal, 10 with Premium
- From
- The microphone, or any audio file
- Stored
- On your device, next to your books
- Uploaded
- Never
A bookstore comes with the app.
New in 3.0: the Chorus Library. More than a hundred hand-picked classics, free for every reader, plus a curated list of open-access research and your own feeds. Hear a passage of the actual book, narrated on your device in the voice you chose, before you shelve it.
Classics
Public-domain books chosen by hand, cleaned up chapter by chapter, and free on every tier. One tap shelves any of them.
Papers
Curated open-access research, organized by field, with the reason each paper was chosen written next to it. Fetched from the source on your device.
Feeds
Follow RSS feeds and listen to their newest articles, in whichever voice you use for everything else.
Pride and Prejudice · Moby-Dick · Crime and Punishment · Jane Eyre · Middlemarch · Dracula · Meditations · The Count of Monte Cristo · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Little Women · The Odyssey · and the rest of the shelf.
It’s free, and what you read stays on your phone.
Chorus Reader is free on the App Store. No ads, no signup, no account. The free tier includes the Standard engine, 40+ voices in six languages, audio export, iCloud position sync, the entire Chorus Library, and your first imported book. A single one-time purchase, never a subscription, unlocks every engine your device supports, voice cloning, multi-voice narration, and unlimited imports, along with everything we ship later.
No account, no upload. What you import, record, or generate never leaves the device, so we can't see it. There's nothing to opt out of.
- No account required
- No internet needed to narrate
- No analytics or tracking
- No subscription
Listen to your own library.
Free on the App Store. iPhone & iPad, iOS 26 or later.
Download on theApp Store macOS version coming soon