Read Me Offline

Read Me Offline reads articles and text aloud with the text-to-speech voice already on your phone. Share a link from your browser or selected text from any app, cut the parts you don't want, and listen with the screen off.

Share it, trim it, listen to it

• Share a link and Read Me Offline fetches the page once and keeps only the article.


• Share selected text from any app and it is ready to read straight away.


• Trim before you listen: tap a paragraph to cut it (a newsletter plug, a comment section), or cut everything before or after a point. Cuts are never destructive; tap again to restore.


• The sentence being read is highlighted, and playback keeps going with the screen off. Media buttons and headset controls work.


• Speed from 0.5x to 4x. Your place is saved as you go, and finished items move to the Archive.

Private by design

• Speech is made on your phone by Android's text-to-speech engine. Voices that need a network connection are never offered or used.


• The only network request is fetching a link you shared, or retrying one when you ask. No accounts, analytics, crash reporting, ads or update checks.


• What you save stays in the app's private storage and is never written to logs. Deleting an item deletes its text.

A voice for Obsidian on Android
Obsidian on Android gives plugins no way to use the phone's speech engine. Read Me Offline can run a small speech service, reachable only from the phone itself, that the local-tts-reader Obsidian plugin uses to read your notes aloud with the same on-device voices. It is off until you turn it on in Settings.

Read Me Offline needs a text-to-speech engine with at least one offline voice. Most phones have one; if yours doesn't, the app tells you and links to Android's speech settings.

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