Dolphin EasyReader

3.2
360 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Dolphin EasyReader is a free reading app that enables people who are blind, visually impaired (VI) or dyslexic to read text and audio books in ways that suit their vision and preferred reading style.

EasyReader offers convenient access to your favourite accessible book libraries and talking newspaper stands, in one place.

Neurodivergent readers – especially readers who have dyslexia – can customise their reading experience with dyslexia-friendly fonts, adjustable colour schemes and word highlights that synchronise with audio.

Designed for accessibility, EasyReader enables blind and partially sighted readers to read with magnified text, with audio, or a combination of both - where each word is highlighted on screen as it’s read aloud. It also links to braille displays for braille readers.

EasyReader is fully optimized for use with Android TalkBack and Android BrailleBack.

EasyReader Features:

Open a World of Accessible Books
EasyReader provides global access to millions of books from accessible book libraries around the world. Log in to your favourite library to read accessible versions of classic books, the latest bestsellers, non-fiction, school textbooks and children’s storybooks.

Customise to Read Your Way
Text magnification in EasyReader is easy to adjust. Simply pinch in and out on the screen to find the text size that’s best for you. With EasyReader the text is always sharp and visible on screen. It’s an exceptional experience for readers with visual impairments.

Read in fonts that work best for you, including dyslexia-friendly fonts. In EasyReader you can customise the colour of text, background colour and contrast. Adjust letter and line spacing to make your reading experience even better.

Audio Books & Text-to-Audio
Listen to narrated audio books or listen to text-only books and newspapers, which EasyReader converts to human-sounding synthesised speech. Audio perfectly synchronises with on-screen text highlights, so you can read along as you listen.

In EasyReader, you can modify pronunciation, choose the reading voices you prefer and adjust reading speed and volume.

Read a Range of Formats
EasyReader reads a wide range of book and document formats, including:
• HTML
• Text files
• DAISY 2 and DAISY 3
• Microsoft Word (DOCX only)
• PDFs (with RNIB Bookshare)
• Any text copied to clipboard

Easy to Navigate
Access your favourite libraries, then browse and download books easily, with intuitive navigation and accessible controls.

In EasyReader you can move around books quickly. Skip forward or back when reading and skip to any page or chapter.

Type keywords in the search facility to quickly find the information you need.

Add Bookmarks & Notes
To help navigate books, readers can bookmark favourite pages and sections.

To help with study or reference, readers can also add text notes.

Libraries & Talking Newspaper Services in EasyReader:

Global
• Project Gutenberg
• Bookshare

UK
• Calibre Audio
• RNIB Bookshare
• RNIB Newsagent
• RNIB Reading Services

USA & Canada
• Bookshare
• NFB Newsline
• CELA

Sweden
• Legimus
• MTM Taltidningar
• Inläsningstjänst AB

Europe
• DZDN
• Eole
• Anderslezen
• ATZ
• Bookshare Ireland
• Buchknacker
• CBB
• DZB Lesen
• KDD
• Libro Parlato
• Luetus
• NBH Hamburg
• NCBI Overdrive
• NKL
• NLB
• Nota
• Oogvereniging
• Passend Lezen
• Pratsam Demo
• SBS
• UICI
• Vereniging Onbeperkt Lezen

Rest of World
• LKF
• Vision Australia
• Blind Low Vision NZ

Please note:
Membership is required for most accessible libraries. It’s easy to set these up on the library websites. To help, we have listed all of these in the EasyReader app.

You can apply for membership with your diagnosis of a print impairment - which includes dyslexia and other neurodiverse conditions, vision impairments and other physical disabilities.
Updated on
Oct 30, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.4
308 reviews
Marcela Leus
April 14, 2023
As an audiobook user, this is Painful to use! There so many improvements needed! Voice speed only changes by 15%, that is too much, just let us adjust the way we like it. i.e depending on the narrator, for me only a 5-10% adjustment is needed. Add book cover. Please label and divide chapters properly, it's a mess, especially for diversability users! I can't make titles go away, I remove them and they keep coming back. I honestly wish Cela used Libby. Also needs to work with Android Auto.
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Dolphin Computer Access Ltd
April 26, 2023
Hi Marcela Leus, We're sorry you have had issues with the voice speed changing in the app, We appreciate the feedback on this as we are always looking at ways to improve and find feedback from users like this very valuable. Please could you email inapp@yourdolphin.com and we can look at resolving any other issues you might have. thanks
M Bassett
June 9, 2022
Would love to hear a sample of the voices before I pay 8.99 for one that I am not happy with. Also is there a way to highlight just one word to be read that would be very helpful for my child. I know that you can double click the word and it will say it but if you you double click that word and it would only highlight that word that would be visually helpful.
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Dolphin Computer Access Ltd
September 13, 2022
Hi, thank you for the suggestion. I have put it forward to the EasyReader development team, who will investigate whether this can be implemented. Check the What's New list in future EasyReader releases for further updates.
Ryan Michael Dumas
August 22, 2020
While this is super easy to use, there aren't many options for anything, which in itself isn't a problem, but you can't make the big obstrusive text to speech ui go away, and you can't choose individual pages to swipe through instead of scrolling. Definitely not the app for me — one of my main reasons for an ereader app is to lessen my eye strain while reading. Scrolling while reading makes it significantly worse.
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Dolphin Computer Access Ltd
September 1, 2020
Dear Ryan Dumas, thank you for your review we appreciate the feedback. Would you be able to send us a screenshot of the obstrusive text to speech UI that won't go away, to inapp@yourdolphin.com, please? We are sorry to hear that EasyReader is not the app for you, we will consider the suggestion for book swiping as a future idea.

What's new

- Fix applied for sideloading certain books from Éole, France.
- Fixes for login issues with libraries: Getem, Turkey and Éole, France.
- Increased search timeout value to 30 seconds for CELA Library.
- Added two more colour settings for sentence and word highlight.
- To avoid an unwanted crash, when waking the app up from sleep, the app may restart.