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Tempo Reader for iPhone and iPad

Any document.
Your pace.

CA$3.99 a month or CA$24.99 a year.

Tempo Reader on iPhone in Flash, reading a library's annual report one word at a time at 350 words a minute, each word's pivot letter in red on the same point of the stage.

Read documents one word at a time, listen aloud, or browse the text with its figures in place.

Reading modes

  1. Flash

    Words arrive at one fixed point, at 100–1,200 words a minute. Show one, two or three at once, with pauses at sentences and paragraphs.

    Tempo Reader on iPhone in Flash, reading a library's annual report one word at a time at 350 words a minute, each word's pivot letter in red on the same point of the stage.

  2. Listen

    Listen at 0.25–4× speed with each sentence highlighted. Playback continues with the screen off, remembers your place and supports a sleep timer.

    Tempo Reader on iPhone in Listen: the voice Heart reading aloud, the highlighter following the sentence being spoken, and the player below.

  3. Text

    Read without running headers, page numbers or footnotes. Tap a sentence to start there. Uncertain words from scans are marked for checking.

    Tempo Reader on iPhone in Text, scrolling down a clean document to a bar chart of swifts counted each month, set in place under the paragraph that mentions it.

  4. Figures

    Charts, diagrams and photos stay beside the text. Glance brings them into Flash as you reach them. Listen shows the current figure above the player and on the Lock Screen.

    Swifts counted going into the chimneyBest evening of each month
    010020030040050038May164Jun412Jul143Aug9Sep
    Tempo Reader on iPhone in Flash with Glance on: as the sentence reaches Figure 1, the bar chart it is about appears under the word, and the reading goes on.
Tempo Reader on iPhone in Flash, reading a library's annual report one word at a time at 350 words a minute, each word's pivot letter in red on the same point of the stage.

Try Flash

Press play and adjust the pace.

Every word lands on the same point, so your eyes stop moving and the words come to you. Longer words stay a little longer. A comma gets half a beat, and the end of a sentence gets a whole one. Try it slower, then faster, and find the pace where it still feels like reading. In the app, this is any document you give it.

Pace350 wpm
Words at once

Playing

Listen offline

Five English voices are included. Apple voices take over for other languages and higher speeds.

  • HeartDefault
  • Bella
  • Nicole
  • Michael
  • Fenrir

Tempo Neural reads English and needs an iPhone or iPad with 6 GB of memory or more. On other devices, Listen reads with your Apple voices.

Tempo Reader on iPhone in Listen: the voice Heart reading aloud, the highlighter following the sentence being spoken, and the player below.

Landscape reading

Rotate your iPhone or iPad for a larger Flash stage, figures beside the words and controls that hide with a tap.

Tempo Reader on iPad in landscape: the Flash stage on the left, playing, and the bar chart the sentence refers to arriving on the right.

Open your documents

Share to Tempo from another app, open a file or paste a link.

  • PDFScanned pages too, read on the device
  • Word.docx, with its figures
  • PowerPoint.pptx, slides and all
  • EPUBBooks and long reads
  • Web pagesPaste a link to read the page
  • Photos of pagesText recognition on the device

Plain text and Markdown too. When a page had to be read from an image, Tempo tells you which one.

Tempo Reader on iPhone importing a document: File is tapped, the document is cleaned, lands in the library and opens.

Your documents stay on your device.

  • All of it, on the device.

    Lifting the text out, finding the figures, recognising photographs and the voices all happen on your iPhone or iPad. Nothing is uploaded.

  • No account.

    Tempo never asks for your name, your email or a password. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising.

  • One request, when you ask.

    The only time Tempo reaches the network is when you ask it to read a web page. It fetches that page and nothing else.

On the App Store: Data Not Collected.Read the privacy policy

Reading accessibility

Three reading typefaces are built in. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion are supported throughout. Light and dark, and a Flash stage you can pin to either.

  • Lexend
  • Atkinson Hyperlegible
  • OpenDyslexic

Tempo Pro

Importing and your library are free. Reading requires a monthly or yearly subscription.

  • MonthlyCA$3.99a month
  • YearlyCA$24.99a year

Prices in Canadian dollars; the App Store shows yours in your own currency. The subscription renews automatically. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends.