For ADHD & dyslexic readers

Reading is the bottleneck. Listening isn't.

For the brain that buys books and can't sit through them

You've read the same paragraph four times and kept nothing. Not a discipline problem — a format problem. Upload the PDF you've restarted five times and Audionarrator hands you a chapter-aware audiobook: the same material, through a channel your brain doesn't fight.

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How it helps

The format was the problem, not you

Sitting still, eyes tracking lines, holding your place across a 40-page chapter — that's the exact set of demands ADHD and dyslexia make hardest. Audio removes them. You can pace, commute, fold laundry, stare out a window — and the material keeps arriving.

  • Listen while moving — pacing, walking, gym, dishes. Motion helps, so use it
  • Resume position is automatic — losing your place stops being a tax on every session
  • Front matter is skipped by default, so hitting play doesn't mean sitting through a table of contents first
  • Speed control from 0.75x to 2x — slow down for dense material, speed up for review
  • Ask the chapter a question when you zone out — the answer comes from the text itself, so 'wait, what did I miss' costs seconds, not a re-read
  • MP3 downloads for offline listening — no app, no wifi, no friction between you and starting

Your library

6 books · the pile, finally moving

Library
TF

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Chapter 11 of 38

TO

Team Onboarding Handbook

Finished

BP

Biopsychology — Pinel

Chapter 5 of 18

AH

Atomic Habits

Restarted · ch. 2

DW

Deep Work

Ready to start

QC

Q3 Compliance Manual

Ch. 3 of 7

Book detail
TF

Book · 38 chapters

Thinking, Fast and Slow

35 in playback · 3 hidden (preface, notes, index)

Chapters

08
How Judgments Happen
24:40·Finished
09
Answering an Easier Question
19:12·Finished
10
The Law of Small Numbers
26:35·Finished
Anchors
11:04 / 23:50·1.5x
12
The Science of Availability
21:20
13
Availability, Emotion, and Risk
22:47

How it works

Three steps, no setup ritual

01Step

Upload the PDF, DOCX, or EPUB you already own — up to 50 MB

02Step

Chapters are detected automatically; the boilerplate is hidden

03Step

Hit play. Move. Let it read to you

Questions

Asked by readers like you

Straight answers, no inspirational-poster language.

Is listening instead of reading 'cheating'?

No. Accommodation isn't cheating — it's routing the same material through a channel that works. Audiobook listeners and print readers show comparable comprehension for most material; what matters is engaging with the content, not which sense delivers it.

How is this different from Speechify or a screen reader?

Generic readers treat a book like one long article — they read the table of contents, page headers, and footnotes as if they were prose, and losing your place means scrubbing through one giant audio file. Audionarrator parses the book's structure: real chapters, front matter hidden, resume per chapter. For long documents, that structure is the difference between usable and abandoned.

Does it work with textbooks and work documents?

Yes — anything with selectable text: textbooks, reports, manuals, research papers, the onboarding doc your job sent you. Scanned image-only PDFs need OCR, which isn't live yet; we detect and tell you upfront rather than producing garbage.

I hyperfocus and then drop things for weeks. Will a subscription punish me for that?

This is what the one-time word packs are for — buy words when you're in a reading season, let them sit when you're not. They never expire. The subscription is there if your listening becomes steady; it's not the only door in.

What does it cost compared to Speechify?

Speechify Premium runs about $139/year. Audionarrator's Creator plan is $9/month — about $108/year — with 50,000 words a month, or you can skip subscribing entirely and use non-expiring packs from $3. Your first chapter is free, so you can hear it on your own material before spending anything.

Is my stuff private?

Your files are stored encrypted, processed only to generate your audio, never used for training, and deleting a book wipes both the text and the audio. Your reading list is nobody's business.

Hear a chapter of your own book tonight

Not a demo file — your actual PDF, the one you've been circling for months. First chapter free, no card required.

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