Don't squint,
just listen.
Select any text, in any app, and a warm, natural voice reads it to you while every sentence lights up as it's spoken. No account. No cloud. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Free while it's in beta · Apple silicon Macs · Made on the Isle of Wight
This is the actual voice.
Not a studio recording. Willow, generated on a MacBook by the app itself, reading the paragraph on the right with the same sentence highlighting you'll see on your own screen.
Reading shouldn't be hard work. Select any text on your Mac, press play, and a warm voice reads it to you. Every sentence lights up as it's spoken, so you can follow along. Nothing leaves your computer.
▶ Press play on the pill to hear Willow read this, for real, generated on a Mac.
Three moves. No setup each time.
Select
Highlight text anywhere: a web page, an email, a PDF, a Final Cut transcript. The pill appears beside it.
Press play
Or press ⌥S. Or turn on “show and read” and it starts the moment you highlight.
Follow along
Open the panel and the sentence being spoken glows lavender. Big text, generous spacing, cream page.
Four readers. All of them live on your Mac.
Tap one to hear it. These clips were generated by Ezay Read on a MacBook, not recorded by a person.
Willow
Hello, I'm Willow. Shall I read that for you?
Arlo
Hi there, I'm Arlo. Take your time, I'll keep pace.
Nova
Hey, I'm Nova. Let's get through this together.
Atlas
I'm Atlas. Sit back, I've got this one.
Voices are blends of the open-source Kokoro model. More readers, and one day your own voice, are on the way.
Small pill. Thoughtful details.
Skip what you already know
Reading along and hit a dull paragraph? One tap skips to the next sentence. ⌥→ and ⌥← work from anywhere, even while you're in another app.
Slow it down, speed it up
0.7× to 2×, and the voice stays natural at every speed because it's re-spoken, not stretched.
Export a chapter
Writing fiction? Turn a chapter into an M4A in one click and send it to your readers. Runs in the background while you keep working.
It knows what not to read
Select a clip in Final Cut or a file in Finder and it stays quiet. Select a transcript, a manual, an email, and it reads.
Your words never leave your Mac.
The voice is an 82-million-parameter model that runs on your own chip. It downloads once, about 325 MB, and then Ezay Read works with the Wi-Fi off.
Made for people who'd rather hear it.
Before you download.
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14 or newer. The voice runs on the CPU and stays warm, so a sentence starts playing in under a second.
Is it safe to install?
Ezay Read is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens like any other Mac app. If you ever see a warning, it means the copy didn't come from ezayread.com.
What permission does it need?
One: Accessibility, so it can press ⌘C on your behalf to read your selection. The app walks you through it on first launch and puts your clipboard back afterwards.
Does it read inside Safari, Mail, PDFs, Word?
Yes. If you can select the text, Ezay Read can read it. Scanned images without a text layer are the one exception, for now.
What does it cost?
Nothing while it's in beta. When it launches it'll be a single one-off price, never a subscription, because it never has any running costs on our side.
Give your eyes the afternoon off.
EzayRead-latest.dmg · 180 MB · plus a one-time 325 MB voice download