Inflect: Text Tone Reader
Shadow Caster Studios Ltd. Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Inflect: Text Tone Reader is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Shadow Caster Studios Ltd. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 27, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v1.0.5
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About Inflect: Text Tone Reader
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/
What’s new
Version 1.0.5 · Updated October 27, 2026
Small fixes and a clearer App Store listing. Reads, replies and privacy are unchanged.
App privacy
The developer, Shadow Caster Studios Ltd., 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:
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
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