AmaNous - TTS Reader

Johannes Cheung

About this app

AmaNous -- Private Offline Listening for Long-Form Text
You have a reading pile you never get to.
The articles you saved to read later. The PDF you meant to get through last week. The book sitting on your shelf. The research paper due Friday. The newsletters you subscribed to because they sounded interesting and haven't opened since.
AmaNous turns all of it into audio you can listen to on your commute, your walk, your run, while cooking, or whenever your eyes need a break.
Everything runs on your device. No internet required after setup.
Import anything
-- Articles and URLs -- share directly from your browser
-- PDFs, including scanned documents via on-device OCR
-- EPUBs and ebooks
-- DOCX, TXT, and HTML files
-- Share-into-app and Open With from Files or any other app
Note: PDF parsing works well for articles, books, and most documents. Research papers with complex tables and graphs will be rough in this beta.
Listen and follow along
Word-synced highlighting tracks exactly where you are as you listen. Switch between reading and listening on the same page. Seek anywhere in an article mid-playback. Resume exactly where you left off.
Make it yours
Around 29 narrators to choose from. Adjustable playback speed. Font size, line spacing, and reading theme controls. One-tap OpenDyslexic preset for reading comfort. Background playback with lock-screen controls.
Gets the words right
A dedicated pronunciation pipeline handles the things text-to-speech apps routinely mangle: acronyms, proper nouns, Roman numerals, years, currencies, CamelCase, possessives, and homographs. Not perfect, but substantially better than the default.
Private by design. Forever free.
Synthesis happens entirely on your device using Kokoro-82M -- the top-ranked open-weights text-to-speech model. Your documents are never uploaded. No account required to listen. Unlimited listening hours, no subscription, no metered minutes. Free, with no plan to change that.
This is a beta
AmaNous is in active development. Imports will occasionally fail. Pronunciation will sometimes be wrong. Some edges are rough. What's here is real and usable -- but we want you testing it, not expecting a finished product.
Try it on something real. Tell us where it breaks.
What's coming
After full release, the next major feature is a newsletter-to-playlist feed. The newsletters sitting unread in your inbox pipe directly into AmaNous as a curated listening queue. Like Spotify, but for the reading you actually chose.

What’s new

Bug Fixes