Smooth PDF Reader

Hoffman Labs

About this app

Smooth PDF Reader reads your PDFs to you, and keeps your place on the page while it does.

Press play and the line being spoken is marked as you go, with the lines around it, so your eyes and ears stay together. The page turns on its own and follows the voice.

LISTEN YOUR WAY
• Any voice installed on your device
• Speed from 0.5x to 3x, clear even at the top speeds
• Double-tap any word to start reading from it
• Back or forward 15 seconds from the notification, the lock screen or your earbuds
• Pauses for calls and picks up where it stopped
• Skips page numbers, running headers, footnote markers and web addresses, so you hear the book, not the layout

READ AND MARK
• Pinch to zoom, or fit the whole page on screen
• Trim white margins automatically or by hand
• Search the whole book
• Bookmarks, and highlights in your colours, with notes
• One tap highlights the sentence being read, even from the lock screen
• Send highlights to Google Keep or copy them anywhere
• Contents, page thumbnails and a go-to-page box
• Full screen for reading without distractions
• Reads scanned pages too, with on-device text recognition

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads, no tracking. The app doesn't even have internet permission: your books, highlights and notes never leave your device.

What’s new

First release of Smooth PDF Reader: read your PDFs aloud with your device's voice and follow every line as it's spoken.