Hearald — read web pages, PDFs and Google Docs aloud. Free on Chrome.

Built for how people actually read

Not a screen reader. Not an audiobook app. A reading companion.

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Voices that sound human28 natural voices, US and UK. Audition them with your own words before you commit.

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Word-by-word follow-alongThe sentence glows, the spoken word pops. Seeing and hearing together is what makes it stick.

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Start from any paragraphHover a paragraph and press play right there. You rarely want the page — you want that part.

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Remembers your placeCome back tomorrow and it resumes exactly where you left off, on every page.

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Steps by sentenceBack and forward move a full thought at a time — never ten seconds into the middle of a definition.

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Instant speed control0.75× to 2× and it changes the moment you tap — no pause, no re-buffering.

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Reads the right thingFinds the actual article and skips menus, sidebars and footers. Or outline exactly what you want read.

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PDFs, Google Docs and Slides tooOpen a PDF, a Google Doc or a Slides deck and press play. Same voices, same word-by-word highlighting — free, like the rest of the reader. Docs and Slides are new in v0.4.0.

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Works offlineOnce installed, it reads with no connection at all — on a plane, in a dead zone, anywhere.

Your reading is nobody's business.

Hearald needs no account, and nothing you read ever leaves your machine. The pages you read, the words you hear, how fast you listen — all of it stays on your computer. That's not a settings toggle; it's how it's built. And from v0.4.0, Hearald asks for no access to your sites when you install it: it reads a page only when you ask it to.

Natural text-to-speech without the subscription.

Hearald runs the voice model on your computer. Your reading stays private, and the natural voices are free — no monthly plan, no per-character quota, no upload of the page you're reading.

Available now

Hearald Pro

Free Hearald reads what you open — a page or a PDF. Pro is for when there's a lot of it: everything that spans more than one document.

Reading list and Play AllQueue pages and PDFs, start it, walk away
Focus sessions and goalsPomodoro blocks built around reading, and a daily target
Reading recordEvery page you've finished, day by day
Still no accountOne purchase, checked once — no subscription, still offline

Coming to Pro later, and not what you'd be paying for today: a library and collections, picking up where you left off across documents, and reading the rest of a chapter in one go.

$29 one-time — $15 for the first 100 buyers.

Get Hearald Pro — $15

The founding price is applied automatically — no code to enter. Pro unlocks in Hearald v0.3.0 and later.

Ready to listen?

Free, no account, works offline.

Add Hearald to Chrome — Free