Readio turns the articles, PDFs, and documents you read into audio you can listen to - like a personal podcast feed built from anything on the web. Share a link from Safari, paste a URL, drop in a PDF, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Built entirely on-device. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac. No accounts. No tracking. No subscription. One price, yours forever.
LISTEN ANYWHERE
* High-quality on-device text-to-speech with a full Siri voice picker
* Pitch-preserving 0.5x-2x playback - no chipmunk effect
* Skip forward / back, jump by paragraph, scrub the timeline
* Resumes where you left off, even across reboots
* Auto-advance respects your progress - finished articles let the next queued one resume; Skip Next restarts fresh
* Adjustable pause between articles, plus a sleep timer with "stop at end of article"
PODCASTS & AUDIO
* Add a podcast episode by RSS feed, direct audio link, episode page, or a local audio file
* Plays right alongside your articles - same player, queue, CarPlay, and Lock Screen controls
* Filter your Library to just audio, with a mic badge marking episodes
WORKS WITH YOUR LIFE
* CarPlay with pre-rendered audio for stutter-free highway driving
* Articles render to disk in the background so wireless playback uses a real audio file
* Lock screen, Control Center, Bluetooth, AirPods, and car-stereo controls all wired up
* Background audio that survives phone calls without auto-resuming
* Share extension - send any URL from any app into your queue
A PLAYER THAT FEELS RIGHT
* Tap the mini player and the artwork flies up into the full player with a matched-geometry morph
* Album-style zoom into playlists and detail views
* Animated waveform on whichever article is currently playing
* Twelve accent palettes and iOS 26 Liquid Glass chrome throughout
CLEAN READER VIEW
* Five themes (Auto, Light, Sepia, Dark, Black) and eight reading-optimized fonts
* Drop-cap opener, wider iPad column, sticky header with a live "X min left" pill
* Tap to immerse - toolbars hide for distraction-free reading; one tap brings them back
* Long-press any sentence to share it as a beautifully-rendered quote image
* Read and listen interchangeably - your position syncs across both modes
DOCUMENTS, NOT JUST ARTICLES
* Import PDFs, HTML files, plain text, and Markdown
* Read in the native viewer or extracted into the reader and listened to
* Stored on-device - never sent to a server
* Open from Files, AirDrop, or any share sheet
KEEP THE WHOLE PAGE
* Save full-page snapshots - code blocks, images, and layout intact
* Available offline once captured, viewable from inside the article
* Per-article default view, or turn it on globally
SMART PLAYLISTS
* Today, Quick Listens, Long Reads, Recently Played, Unstarted — auto-curated for the time you have
* Build your own with a rule editor: by source, by length, by recency
* Updates live as your library changes; tap to listen to the whole set
ORGANIZE
* Continue Listening carousel - pick up where you stopped on every in-progress article
* Playlists with custom gradients and SF Symbol icons
* Drag-to-reorder queue, swipe-to-remove, Edit button so handles are always visible
* Long-press in Library, Search, or Up Next for one-tap Play, Start Over, Add to Queue, Move to Top, Archive, Delete
* Auto-archive completed articles - restorable from Archive any time
* Search with sort and instant keyboard dismiss
* iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
RSS FEEDS
* Subscribe to any feed - articles import automatically and are ready to listen
* Smart deduplication so the same article never queues twice
* "Restored from Archive" indicator when a re-shared article is already in your library
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
* Articles fetched directly from the source over HTTPS
* Nothing leaves your device except the article URL itself
* No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs
* One-time payment - no subscription, no ads, ever
REQUIRES iOS 17 OR LATER. Designed for iPhone and iPad. Compatible with Apple Silicon Mac.
