Built for how people actually read
Not a screen reader. Not an audiobook app. A reading companion.
Built for how people actually read
Not a screen reader. Not an audiobook app. A reading companion.
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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.
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. With the Study Kit you can save a page as an MP3 the same way: made here, with no meter on it.
Hearald Study Kit
Free Hearald reads what you open — a page, a PDF, a Google Doc. The Study Kit is for learning from it: write down what you heard, see what you missed, and work through a list in focused blocks. And it saves any page as an MP3 you keep.
- Save any page as an MP3One audio file, made on your computer. Keep it, play it anywhere, or put it on your own site
- NotebookWrite what you took in, stamped with the section you were hearing
- Check yourselfSee which key points of that section your note missed
- Focus blocks and goalsTimed blocks that only count while you're listening, and a daily target
- Reading list, Play All, historyQueue pages and PDFs, work through them hands-off, and see everything you've finished
- Still no accountOne purchase, checked once — no subscription, still offline
Coming to the Study Kit 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.
The founding price is applied automatically — no code to enter. Save as MP3 comes with Hearald v0.4.8, which is on its way through Chrome Web Store review; Chrome installs it on its own once it's out.
Buying for students? Set the quantity at checkout — one license per student. For a whole class, school or district there's group pricing, and if you need a quote, an invoice, a W-9 or a purchase order rather than a card, email fatherearth2011@gmail.com.