Press kit

Tuneread, for the press.

What Tuneread is, the facts, the story behind it, and the icon, screenshots and video to use in your piece. Anything else, or a Pro code to try it: roman@tuneread.com.

In a sentence

Tuneread is an iPhone app that reads the articles you save aloud, in natural voices that run on the phone itself.

Short description

Tuneread reads saved articles aloud on the iPhone. Share an X Article, a LinkedIn post or any web page to it, and it reads it in a natural voice made on the phone, with no account and no servers. Articles play one after another like podcast episodes, and every word lights up as it's read.

Longer description

Tuneread turns the articles people save into something they can listen to. Share an X Article or thread, a LinkedIn post or any web page to it, or paste a link, and it reads it in a natural neural voice that runs entirely on the iPhone: there's no account, nothing is sent to a speech server, and anything in the library plays offline. Articles line up in Up Next and play one after another with the screen off, controlled from the lock screen and AirPods, while the transcript lights up each word as it's read. Tuneread reads 31 languages and picks the language for each paragraph. It works with Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight, and on iPhone Duo the player gets its own page beside the library. It's free for 30 minutes of listening a day; Pro removes the limit for $9.99, once, with no subscription. Tuneread is made by Roman Mastalir in Brno, Czech Republic.

Facts

Made by	Roman Mastalir, Brno, Czech Republic
Released	October 2026
Runs on	iPhone with iOS 26 or later, made for iPhone Duo
Price	Free, with 30 minutes of listening a day. Pro: $9.99, €9.99, £9.99 or 249 Kč, once
Pro adds	Unlimited listening, whole articles downloaded ahead, articles saved as audio files, speeds up to 2×
Reads	X Articles, posts and threads; LinkedIn posts and articles; any web article
Languages	31, best in English
Privacy	No account and no tracking; the voices run on the iPhone. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected
Links	tuneread.com · App Store
Press contact	roman@tuneread.com

Why it exists

Roman Mastalir has ADHD. He saved long articles and posts he never got through, and found that listening worked where reading didn't. He built Tuneread for himself first, as a way to get through his own reading list on walks and on the way to work.

“I have ADHD, and long articles have never been my friend. I'd save them, open one, read three paragraphs and end up somewhere else. Listening is different: on a walk or doing the dishes, the words actually get in. So I built myself an app for it.”

Roman Mastalir, who makes Tuneread

What it does

Share from X, LinkedIn, Safari or any app, or paste a link.
Up Next: articles play one after another with the screen off, with the lock screen and AirPods in control.
A transcript that lights up each word as it's read; tap a paragraph to jump there.
Natural voices made on the iPhone, so it works offline and needs no account.
31 languages, chosen paragraph by paragraph.
Siri (“Play my Tuneread queue”), Shortcuts and Spotlight.
On iPhone Duo, the player has its own page beside the library.

Under the hood

English is read by Kokoro, an open neural voice model, and the other languages by Supertonic, both running through ONNX Runtime on the iPhone's processor. In English, the word highlighting follows the voice model's own timing for each word. Web pages are cleaned up with Readability, the code behind Firefox's Reader View.