ONarrator: Offline Reader
Text to Speech for PDF & EPUB
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Better narration for research papers: citations skipped, numbers and dates read correctly. New margin and alignment settings.
ONarrator turns anything you want to read into natural-sounding speech, and the narration happens on your device.
Import a PDF, EPUB, a web article, or just paste text, and ONarrator reads it aloud in a natural voice while highlighting each word as it goes. Click any sentence to jump straight to it. Your place is always saved.
Because narration runs entirely on-device, nothing you read is ever uploaded to a server. No account, no cloud, no tracking.
READS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY READ
• PDFs — with smart handling that skips headers, footers, and page numbers
• EPUB books — publisher formatting, images, and chapters intact
• Web articles — cleaned up for distraction-free listening
• Pasted or typed text
• Scanned PDFs — text is recognized on your device, then read aloud
• Books in more than one language — each passage in its own voice, in over 30 languages
FREE BOOKS TO START WITH
• Discover thousands of public-domain classics, with carefully made Standard Ebooks editions when available
BUILT FOR LISTENING
• Natural, high-quality on-device voices
• Choose and preview your narrator
• Word-by-word highlighting that follows along as it reads
• Click-to-play from any sentence
• Adjustable reading speed
• Background playback — keep listening while you use other apps
• Sleep timer, including "stop at end of chapter"
• Control Center and media key playback controls
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• 100% offline narration, your documents never leave your device
• No account required
• No ads, no tracking
Turn your reading list, your textbooks, and your saved articles into something you can listen to anywhere.
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Narration
• Numbers, dates, percentages, units and Roman numerals are read correctly.
• Citations are skipped in research papers. You can turn this off in the skip menu.
• Abbreviations like "Fig." and "Eq." are read as words.
• Plain-text books no longer pause at every line break.
Reading
• Margins: Small, Medium or Large.
• Text alignment: left, centre, right or justified.
Bug fixes and improvements.
The developer, Abdul Mueed Qadri, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Abdul Mueed Qadri
- Size
- 303.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Dinner $9.99
- Coffee $4.99
- Cookie $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mueed Qadri