Guides for listening to your reading
Short, practical guides to turning your saved articles, PDFs and notes into something you can listen to. Written by the people who make Leola. No AI token costs: voices are generated on your iPhone.
Pocket alternative
Pocket shut down. Here's what to do with your list
Pocket shut down in 2025. What to look for in a Pocket alternative, how to rescue the articles you still care about, and how to listen to them instead.
Step by step
How to have your iPhone read a PDF aloud
Two ways to have your iPhone read a PDF out loud: Speak Screen, built into iOS, and Leola, which skips footnotes and page numbers and remembers your place.
Step by step
How to listen to articles offline on iPhone
Flights, subways, bad signal: how to save articles and listen to them with no connection on iPhone, with voices that run on the phone itself.
No credits
Text to speech with no credits and no word limits
Why many text-to-speech apps charge credits or cap your words, what changes when the voice runs on your iPhone, and the tradeoffs to know.
For students
How to study by listening to your notes and PDFs
How to turn your class notes, handouts and study PDFs into something you can listen to on the bus, at the gym or before an exam, on iPhone.