Cedar: Read Aloud Books & PDFs
Text to Speech Voice Reader
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Cedar reads anything aloud in a natural voice — PDFs, ebooks, articles, even a page you photograph — and highlights every word as it goes, so your eyes and ears stay together.
Import it, press play, go for a walk. Cedar does the rest. No account needed to try it.
WHAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO
• PDFs and EPUBs, from Files, Mail, or any app that can share
• Any article — paste the link and Cedar keeps the words, drops the clutter
• Anything you copy — notes, an email, a passage from somewhere else
• Printed pages — photograph a page and hear it read back
• 47,000 classic books, free and already inside the app
WHY PEOPLE KEEP IT
Students get through the reading list on the bus. Commuters turn a dead commute into a chapter a day. Readers with dyslexia or ADHD finally finish long documents. And when your eyes are done for the night, the reading doesn't have to be.
THE READING PART, DONE PROPERLY
• Word-by-word highlighting that follows the voice exactly
• Tap any sentence to jump straight there
• Real PDF view — listen while you follow the actual page
• Dozens of natural voices, each previewable in a tap
• Chapters found automatically, with a contents picker
• Bookmarks, adjustable speed, and a sleep timer
• Paper, sepia, and night themes, at the text size you like
• Keeps playing with the screen off, with lock-screen controls
• Folders and search, for a library that grows
47,000 CLASSICS, FREE
Austen, Melville, Doyle, Shelley, Montgomery, Shakespeare and thousands more — free to add, free to keep, no trial attached. It's also the fastest way to hear what Cedar sounds like: open one and press play.
PRIVACY, PLAINLY
No ads, no tracking, no analytics brokers, nothing sold. Your documents are visible only to your account, and deleting your account deletes them.
CEDAR PRO
Everyone gets about half an hour of listening a day, free, for as long as they want it. Cedar Pro lifts the limit — unlimited listening for $3.99 CAD per month or $34.99 CAD per year, priced locally in other regions and billed to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.
Terms of Use: https://cadence.levinlabs.net/legal/terms
Privacy Policy: https://cadence.levinlabs.net/legal/privacy
Cedar runs on iPhone, iPad, and your library follows you. Voices are generated on Cedar's own servers, so an internet connection is required.
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General bug fixes and improvements.
The developer, Mikhail Levin, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mikhail Levin
- Size
- 103 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Horror/Fear Themes
Medical Treatment information
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Cedar Pro $24.99
- Cedar Pro $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mikhail Levin