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Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT from your phone — or start with one of over 1,000 English classics built into the app.
Read aloud
A Read-Aloud App Made for Whole Books
Not a page at a time in one robotic voice — the whole book, chapter after chapter, with a different voice for every character.
How it reads to you
Set it going once, then just listen.
Let it prepare
The book is split into chapters and every character gets a voice. The first chapter is ready in about a minute or two.
Press play and put the phone away
It keeps reading with the screen off, shows controls on the lock screen and remembers where you stopped.
Reading a page versus reading a book
Most read-aloud features were built for a page or an article: select text, press play, one voice reads it. A book needs more — it has to keep going for hours, survive a locked screen, pick up exactly where you stopped and keep the characters apart. Lyraboo is built around that: it is an audiobook player that happens to make its own audiobooks.
What you get
- A different voice for every character, cast automatically.
- Chapters and progress, in a player that feels like a music app.
- Speed from 0.25× to 3×, for slow careful listening or fast re-reads.
- Read along when you want to see the words.
- Your own books — EPUB, PDF, TXT — and a built-in library of classics.
Who uses it
Commuters and walkers, people who find long reading tiring or live with dyslexia, readers of fanfiction and web serials, and anyone who takes in a story better by ear. If reading is the hard part, see listening instead of reading.
Honest limits
Android only, needs an internet connection, and scanned PDFs without a text layer cannot be read. Free to start with one hour a month; more hours come with a subscription.
Why listeners choose Lyraboo
The things people notice in the first chapter — and the reasons they stay.
Every character gets their own voice
Lyraboo’s AI finds every character in the book and casts a distinct voice for each — automatically, for every book. You always know who is speaking, and dialogue sounds like a real conversation instead of one narrator doing all the parts. Most reading and text-to-speech apps use one voice for everything.
The text follows along, like lyrics
Under the player, the book scrolls with the voice the way song lyrics do in Spotify: words light up as they are spoken, each line shows who says it, and tapping any word jumps there.
A player that feels like a music app
Chapters, speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback with lock-screen controls, and it picks up exactly where you stopped.
Upload, and you are listening in minutes
Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT and there is nothing to set up: the first chapter is ready in about one to two minutes, and the rest generate while you listen.
Any book you have, not just a catalogue
Novels, fanfiction and web-serial exports, indie ebooks, study PDFs — plus over 1,000 English classics already in the app.
Fair on cost
One free hour of listening every month, no card needed. Hours are spent once per chapter — replaying is always free.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an app that will read my books to me?
Yes. On Android, Lyraboo reads EPUB, PDF and TXT books aloud with natural AI voices — and gives each character their own voice. On iPhone, look at ElevenReader, Speechify or Voice Dream Reader.
Can it read while my phone is locked?
Yes. Playback continues in the background with controls on the lock screen, like any music or podcast app.
Can I follow the text while it reads?
Yes — the text on screen follows the voice, and each speaker is labelled. You can also just listen.
Does it work offline?
No. The voices are generated in the cloud, so Lyraboo needs a connection. If offline is a must, reader apps that use the phone’s built-in voice work without one.
Try Lyraboo on Android
Upload a book you own and let the app turn it into a multi-voice audiobook automatically.