Timber - Text to Speech, Voice
Productivity
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Timber is a reader that listens with you. Paste an article, share from Safari, drop in a book — Timber turns it into clean, beautiful text and reads it aloud in a voice you choose.
It was built by a teacher who spent years watching kids fight through words they desperately wanted to understand, and who couldn't find one app that read beautifully, respected privacy, and didn't hold the basics hostage.
WHAT TIMBER PROMISES
• No account. No sign-up. Open it and read.
• The core reader is free — and stays free.
• What you read is nobody's business. Articles, books, and clipboard text are processed on your device. What you read won't be shared.
VOICES, PROPERLY
• Every Apple voice on your device works, free — including Enhanced and Premium.
• Hundreds of neural voices across dozens of languages, downloaded on demand and spoken entirely on your device.
• Every voice library includes a free male and female voice in your language. No teaser locked behind a trial.
• Record a reference of your own voice and Timber can read in it — created on device, never uploaded.
A READER THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER
• Warm parchment design — an open book under a reading lamp, not a tech product.
• Word-by-word highlighting that keeps pace at every speed, 0.5× to 3×.
• Serif reading typography you can tune: size, face, line spacing. Six palettes built in.
BRING ANYTHING
• Paste a link and Timber extracts the article — no ads, no popups, just the text.
• Share from Safari, import PDFs and text, follow RSS feeds.
• Browse 70,000+ free public-domain books from Project Gutenberg.
• Translate articles on device, or get a quick on-device summary — no cloud, no AI account.
• Export any article as spoken audio to take with you.
• Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices.
TIMBER PRO (optional, one subscription or pay once)
The free reader is complete. Pro unlocks the full neural voice catalog beyond each library's free pair, every palette, and ongoing personal-voice listening after the free 24-hour trial. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime — and the trial simply lapses; it never auto-charges.
Privacy Policy: https://timberreader.com/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Timber was made for the kid in the back row who hears a story better than they can read it — and for everyone whose eyes are tired, busy, or somewhere else. If that's you, welcome.
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Personal voices start speaking sooner.
Timber used to build a whole paragraph before making a sound, which left a long pause every time it moved to the next one. Now it starts talking almost right away, so reading runs continuously instead of stopping and starting.
Also in this update:
- Smoother scrolling in the Voices list.
- Less background work while you read, which is easier on your battery.
- A quieter app overall: fewer things running that you never asked for.
The developer, Truth in the Machine LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
For more information, visit the developer’s accessibility website .
Information
- Seller
- Truth in the Machine LLC
- Size
- 213.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 34 more
- English, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Timber Pro Yearly $39.99
- Timber Pro Lifetime $99.99
- Timber Pro Monthly $5.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Russell DeGraff