Timber - Text to Speech, Voice
Truth in the Machine LLC Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Timber - Text to Speech, Voice is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Truth in the Machine LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 223 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 22
- 2026 · v1.0.8
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About Timber - Text to Speech, Voice
Timber turns readers into listeners. Anything you want to read, you can listen to instead. Paste a link, drop in a PDF, open a book, or snap a photo of a printed page. Timber pulls out the real text, cleanly, and reads it aloud in a voice you pick. There is a companion desktop app that moves your open browser tabs into your ears. Ever asked your phone to read a page aloud and had it stop halfway, or skip the part that mattered? That is not you missing a setting. Most reader tools are not built to get the whole article. Timber pulls the full text out first, before it ever starts speaking. What you paste is what you hear, start to finish. It was built by a teacher who spent years watching kids fight through words they badly wanted to understand, and who could not find one app that read well, respected privacy, and did not hold the basics hostage. WHAT TIMBER PROMISES • No account. No sign-up. Open it and read. • The core reader is free, and stays free. • What you read is nobody's business. Articles, books and clipboard text are processed on your device. What you read is never shared, sold, or used for ads. VOICES, PROPERLY • 324 voices across 71 languages, free, spoken entirely on your device. • Every Apple voice on your device works, free, including Enhanced and Premium. • Every voice library includes a free male and female voice in your language. No teaser locked behind a trial. • Record a reference of your own voice and Timber can read in it. Created on device, never uploaded. A READER THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER • Warm parchment design. An open book under a reading lamp, not a tech product. • Every word lights up as it is spoken, and keeps pace whether you slow it right down or push it fast. • Tune the size, the face and the line spacing until it is comfortable. Six palettes built in, plus a full dyslexia mode. BRING ANYTHING • Paste a link and Timber extracts the article. No ads, no popups, just the text. • Share from Safari or any browser. Import PDFs, EPUB, Word and PowerPoint. Follow RSS feeds. • Point your camera at a printed page and Timber reads it back to you. • Scanned chapters carry junk on every page. Timber spots a line that repeats and silences it across the whole document in one tap. • Browse 70,000+ free public-domain books from Project Gutenberg. • Translate an article on device, or get a quick summary on device. No cloud, no AI account. • Export any article as spoken audio to take with you. • Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices. FOR CLASSROOMS AND STUDY • Mark passages while you listen, then hand out what you marked as a worksheet. • MLA and APA citations built in. • A chapter becomes a lesson in the time it takes to listen to it. TIMBER PRO (optional, subscribe or pay once) The free reader is complete. Pro unlocks the full neural voice catalog beyond each library's free pair, the whole speed range, every palette, and ongoing personal-voice listening after the free 24-hour trial. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime. The trial simply lapses. It never auto-charges. Privacy Policy: https://timberreader.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Timber was made for the kid in the back row who hears a story better than they can read it, and for everyone whose eyes are tired, busy, or somewhere else. If that is you, welcome.
What’s new
Version 1.0.8 · Updated September 22, 2026
IN THIS UPDATE • Exporting an article as a PDF keeps every word. A paragraph or quote taller than one page used to be cut off, with no warning and no way to tell. • Voice samples pause what you are listening to, and a sample you stop stays stopped. • Cancelling a voice download and starting it again no longer breaks the new download. • Kitten voices speak in Phrases instead of quietly swapping to an Apple voice. • Renaming an article puts it back in the right place in your A to Z list. • A large file from the web is turned away while it downloads, not after it has filled your phone. • 24 more parts of the app are translated in all 34 languages. SINCE 1.0, IF YOU HAVE BEEN AWAY Listening • The lock screen, Control Center, headphones and CarPlay finally tell the truth: the right button, the right position, and the right speed when you speed up. • AirPlay and Bluetooth speakers stop leaving gaps between paragraphs. • Phrase practice. Repeat a line, set a pause between repeats, loop a whole list, and run it from your headphones or the lock screen. Bringing things in • Browse 70,000+ public-domain books by category, era and author, with a proper book page before anything downloads. • Import a PDF from a link, a password-protected PDF, EPUB, Word and PowerPoint files, and pasted pictures. • Share Word, PowerPoint and ebook files straight from Files. • On iPad and Mac, drag a file, a link, a picture or a passage of text onto Timber. Reading and listening better • Books skip their endnotes and Notes sections instead of reading them to you. • Settings tells you which language Timber is speaking, written in that language. • Timber and its voices stopped translating their own names into other languages. • Restoring a backup asks first and keeps your notes, highlights and hidden phrases. • Deleting from the Library goes to the Trash instead of going for good. Voices • Several voice downloads that could stall, delete themselves, or never finish now work. • Voice sizes and language counts on the Voices page are read from the real catalog, so they match what you actually get.
App privacy
The developer, Truth in the Machine LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|
| Timber - Text to Speech, Voice | 5.0 / 5 (2 ratings) | Free | September 22, 2026 |
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| Local TTS - AI Voice Reader | 4.5 / 5 (8) | Free | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Speech Central – Voice Reader | 4.6 / 5 (1,552) | Free | Sep 22, 2026 |
| NaturalReader - Text To Speech | 4.6 / 5 (9,024) | Free | Sep 21, 2026 |
| ElevenReader: Read Books Aloud | 4.7 / 5 (10,406) | Free | Sep 26, 2026 |
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