Every text deserves a voice.
Minine Aloud is a text-to-speech reader for iPhone and iPad. Drop in a PDF, an EPUB, or a wall of pasted text — press play, and it reads to you in a voice worth listening to. Like a mixtape, but the tape is everything you never had time to read.
Free to listen with the on-device engine. Pro unlocks cloud voices, PDF & EPUB, and AI. iOS 26+.
Reading, without the reading part.
Long reports, saved articles, novels you keep postponing. Minine Aloud turns them into something you can finish on a walk, a commute, or with your eyes closed.
Bring any text
Import PDF and EPUB files with cover thumbnails and chapter lists, or plain text and Markdown. Paste straight from the clipboard for instant listening, or send text from any app through the iOS share sheet. PDFs get optional cleanup that strips headers, footers and page numbers before reading.
A player built for long texts
Long documents are read as a continuous queue with the next section always pre-fetched — no gaps, no stutter. Skip by paragraph, scrub ±5 seconds, and control everything from the lock screen or your headphones. Playback continues in the background, and the app remembers exactly where you stopped, down to the sentence.
Follow along on the page
The text scrolls with the voice, highlighting the sentence being spoken — switch to paragraph highlighting if you prefer a calmer page. Choose your reading typeface, including the LXGW WenKai serif for CJK text, drop bookmarks, and jump between chapters from the outline.
Listening that adds up
A stats page tracks today's listening time, your streak, and a 14-day trend. Highlights you make while listening feed a spaced-repetition review queue — 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days later, the app quietly resurfaces the passages worth remembering.
Three engines. Pick your narrator.
Every engine drives the same player and the same page. Switch whenever you like — and if a cloud engine falters mid-chapter, Aloud falls back to the on-device voice so the reading never stops.
Apple On-Device
The system voices, entirely on your iPhone. No network, no quota, no text leaving the device. The default that always works — on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere.
AWS Polly Neural
Warm, steady neural narration — Zhiyu for Chinese, Joanna and Matthew for English, Takumi for Japanese, and more. Synthesized in the cloud, cached on device so repeat listens are instant.
Azure Neural
Streaming synthesis that starts speaking before the sentence is done rendering. Includes multilingual voices that keep the same narrator across mixed Chinese-and-English text.
Press play. Look away.
Five speeds, one pitch
0.75× to 2.0× with pitch preserved — faster listening that doesn't sound like a chipmunk reading the news.
A mini player that travels
A floating capsule follows you through the app; tap it and it unfolds into the full reading view, Apple-Music style.
Instant read, no filing
Paste anything and hit play — no need to save it as a document first. For the article you'll only ever listen to once.
Picks up where you left off
Close the app mid-sentence; tomorrow it offers to resume from that exact sentence. Positions are remembered per document.
Listen first. Understand faster.
An AI reading assistant sits beside the player — for the moments when hearing a document isn't the same as grasping it.
Summary & outline
Get the shape of a document before you commit forty minutes to it. One tap produces a summary and a navigable outline; tap any heading to start listening from there.
AI highlights
Ask the assistant to mark the passages that matter. The key sentences are highlighted on the page — and they flow into your spaced-review queue automatically.
Ask the document
“What did the author conclude about pricing?” Chat with whatever you're listening to and get answers grounded in the text, streamed token by token.
Runs in the background
Long summaries and highlight passes are scheduled as background tasks — start one, pocket the phone, keep listening. Results are waiting when you return.
Local by default. AI notes, highlights and outlines are stored only on your device unless you explicitly turn on iCloud sync. No tracking, no ads, no analytics resale — the app's privacy manifest declares zero data collected for tracking.
Free to listen. Pro to binge.
The on-device engine, pasted text and the full player are free forever. Minine Aloud Pro unlocks the cloud voices, file imports and the AI assistant.
For a deadline week — that one giant report you'd rather hear than read.
Subscribe in appAbout $1.35 a week. Every voice, every format, every AI feature — with a full week to change your mind.
Start free trial in appMonth by month, cancel anytime. Good for a semester of assigned reading.
Subscribe in app| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Apple on-device voices, offline | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paste & instant read, share sheet, TXT / Markdown | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full player — speeds, bookmarks, lock screen, resume | ✓ | ✓ |
| Listening stats & spaced review | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF & EPUB import | — | ✓ |
| AWS Polly & Azure neural voices | — | ✓ |
| Cloud voice quota per day | 2,000 chars | 200,000 chars |
| AI summary, outline, highlights & chat | — | ✓ |
| AI chat quota per day | — | 50,000 tokens |
Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. The 7-day free trial applies to the annual plan; any unused portion is forfeited on purchase. Prices shown are US App Store prices and may vary by region.
Put your reading list
on tape.
Designed for iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 and later.
Free to listen with on-device voices — no account required to start.