Read Tracker Pay once · no subscription · no ads
Read aloud on your iPhone.
Every word lights up.
Read Tracker listens while you read and highlights each word the moment you say it, so you never lose your place. Stuck on a word? Tap it and hear it. Want to hear it first? It reads to you. Open an e-book, a PDF or a Word file, or scan a printed page with your iPhone's camera.
Coming soon to the App Store $2.99, one time
Reading aloud is how we learn to read, how we practice a new language, and how many people with dyslexia keep their focus. The text is rarely the problem; keeping your place in it is, and so is that one word you cannot work out. Read Tracker follows your voice like a finger under the line, and gives you the hard word the moment you need it. On the phone that is always in your pocket.
What it does
Tap the microphone and read. The word you are on lights up and grows a little; words you have read turn gray, and a dotted line marks any you skipped.
Tap a word to hear it in a natural Apple voice. Pause on one for a few seconds and a "Hear it" button appears right above it.
Press and hold any word, and reading carries on from there. Skip a page, go back a paragraph.
The app reads the text aloud and lights up each word exactly as it is spoken, at the speed you choose.
One sentence at a time: the app reads it, you say it back, and it tells you how it went.
Reading in a language you are learning? Tap a word for its translation and the whole sentence's, with Apple's translation running on your iPhone (iOS 18 and later).
Lexend, OpenDyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible fonts, wider spacing, a line focus that dims the rest, and soft page colors.
After each reading: your time, words per minute compared with last time, and the words worth practicing.
Point the camera at a book: the iPhone finds the page, straightens it and reads the text, and you read straight from it. E-books, PDF, Word and text files open from the Files app.
Help at the exact moment you need it
Comfortable for every reader
A bigger page on iPad
The same app on the big screen, at no extra cost: prop the iPad on the desk for a lesson, a study session or reading together with a child. Bigger text, a whole paragraph in view, and every feature of the iPhone version, page scanning included.
Read Tracker listens through Apple's own speech recognition, in more than 30 languages, among them:
When a language is available on your iPhone itself, it is recognized right there and works without internet; otherwise Apple's servers recognize it. The app itself is in English, German, French, Spanish and Hebrew.
Questions
Do I pay again for my iPad and my Mac?
No. One purchase covers your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac with Apple silicon, signed in with the same Apple Account.
Which iPhones and iPads does it run on?
Any iPhone or iPad with iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 or later. Translating a word uses Apple's translation, which needs iOS 18 or iPadOS 18; everything else works from iOS 16.
Does it work without internet?
Yes, in every language your iPhone recognizes on the device: reading, highlighting, hearing words, reading aloud, the report and the dyslexia-friendly mode all work offline. Translation needs the internet once, to download the two languages.
Is my voice recorded?
No. The app listens only while the microphone button is on, and never saves or sends audio. When a language is not available on the device, Apple's speech recognition handles it on Apple's servers, under Apple's privacy policy. See the Privacy Policy for the details.
Can it open my Kindle or Apple Books books?
Books bought on Kindle or in Apple Books, and most books bought from other e-book stores, are locked so that only the store's own app can open them, and no other app may unlock them. Read Tracker opens unlocked EPUB books, which includes tens of thousands of free classics, and for a book on paper you can simply scan the pages.
Does it help with dyslexia?
Many readers with dyslexia find it easier to keep their place with the highlight, the line focus, the spacing and the fonts made for them. Read Tracker is a reading aid, not a treatment: it does not diagnose or treat anything, and it is no substitute for a teacher or a specialist.
Who is it for?
Anyone who reads aloud: new readers building confidence, people with dyslexia, language learners practicing pronunciation, and anyone preparing a text to read out. It is meant for ages 13 and up; parents and teachers can use it together with younger readers.
Is it a subscription?
No. Pay once and it is yours, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No ads, no account, no tracking.