Paste an article, drop in a PDF, or type text — Genie Reader rewrites it for
speech and reads it back in one of 28 voices. Everything runs on your Mac;
nothing is sent to the cloud.
Any input
A URL, pasted text, or a PDF — Genie Reader extracts the article and gets it ready to read.
Three reading styles
Verbatim, a natural podcast-style rewrite, or a condensed summary — your call each time.
28 voices
American and British accents, female and male, each previewable before you commit.
100% local
Article rewriting and text-to-speech both run on-device via Ollama and Kokoro — nothing leaves your Mac.
Reading history
Every reading is saved locally with its audio and script, ready to replay or download offline.
Light & dark
Matches your system appearance, with a one-click toggle whenever you want to switch.
First launch: this build isn't notarized yet, so macOS will flag it as
coming from an unidentified developer. Right-click the app in Finder and
choose
Open instead of double-clicking, then confirm — you only need
to do this once. Genie Reader also expects
Ollama
for the article rewriting step; it'll offer to install this automatically
on first run if it's missing.