Inflect: Tone Reader
Read the tone behind the text
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Struggle to tell if a text is sincere, sarcastic, or annoyed? Inflect gives you a calm, private read of the tone - so you second-guess less.
Text strips out tone. The same words can read as warm, cold, or serious, and we fill in the gap with our worst guess - usually when we're tired or already on edge.
Inflect gives you a calm, considered read of how a message most likely lands.
Paste a message, choose who sent it, and tap Read the tone. You get:
- a plain-language read (warm, cold, serious and more), with a colour
- what in the wording points that way
- other ways it could honestly land, because text really can't carry tone
- what to say back - three replies written for this exact message, with one-tap nudges to make them warmer, shorter or more direct
It's a considered read, not a verdict. Tone is hard to read from text, and Inflect is careful to say so.
READ A WHOLE CONVERSATION, OR A SCREENSHOT
Paste a stretch of chat and Inflect reads their last message with the rest as context. Or pick a screenshot of the conversation - it's read on your phone and turned into text you can check before anything is sent. When they reply, one tap carries the thread forward.
THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY TEXT
Add people by name - your partner, your mum, your boss - and each gets read as who they are to you. Answer four quick questions about how someone texts and Inflect tells their normal from a real shift. Names stay on your phone.
TELL IT WHAT'S GOING ON
Add a line about the situation - "we just argued about money", "they're in meetings all day" - and the read changes with it. Copied something? Inflect offers to paste it the moment you open the app.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-in, no analytics. A message is sent encrypted to Inflect for the read, then it's gone - never stored, never sold, never used to train anything. Your people, their names, your answers and your optional on-phone history stay on your phone. Share a read as a picture with the message hidden if you want a second opinion.
BETTER WITH A FRIEND
Inflect is calmer texting for both sides. Get the people you text onto it too and you each get calm tone reads on your own conversations. Share it in a tap.
Your first 24 hours are free with everything unlocked. After that, Inflect Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock.
Inflect will never tell you what someone "really meant" - nobody can do that from text. It just gives you a calmer starting point before you react.
Privacy Policy: https://tonereader.app/privacy/
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Inflect has a new home at tonereader.app, with plain-language guides to what "ok", "k", "fine" and one-word replies usually mean. This update points the app's links there and lets the app ask for a rating at a sensible moment. Reads, replies and privacy are unchanged.
The developer, Shadow Caster Studios Ltd., 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:
- User Content
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Shadow Caster Studios Ltd.
- Size
- 1.3 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Inflect Pro Lifetime $79.99
- Inflect Pro (Monthly) $6.99
- Inflect Pro (Yearly) $39.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Shadow Caster Studios