Pagepurr

Listen to anything you can read.

PDFs, books, documents, web articles and photos of pages, read aloud with each word highlighted as it is spoken.

You can also drop a file anywhere on this page.

Library

Your library is empty. Files you open are kept on this device, so you can reopen them later, even offline.

Reading comfort

Preview

Quick setups

Each one changes several of the settings below at once. Tap one to turn it on, tap it again to turn it off. They can be combined.

Page colour

Text

Focus

Highlight colour

Calm

The preview at the top shows each change straight away. Text settings apply to the Text tab. Page colour applies everywhere, including PDF pages. These settings are the same for every file.

Text filter

Choose what to skip when reading. Skipped text is also left out of the Text tab.

Voice

Options

Options

A backup holds your positions, highlights, notes, bookmarks and settings, not the files. Restore it on another device, open the same files there, and you carry on where you left off.

Search

Contents and bookmarks

Bookmarks

Contents

Highlights and notes

Save as audio

An MP3 file to play in any music app: in the car, on a walk, with the screen off.

Voice

What to save

Meaning

Meanings from Wiktionary, the free dictionary (only the word is sent). Translations are made on this device.

Sleep timer

Recognise text

Recognition runs on this device and takes a few seconds per page. It only has to be done once per file. English works offline; other languages download a small data file the first time.

Pronunciations

When the voice gets a word or name wrong, tell it what to say instead. Applies to every file.

Rename

The new name shows in your library, in the browser tab and on your other devices.

Pagepurr has moved

pagepurr.com

This is the old address. It keeps working, but new things happen at pagepurr.com.

Your files are kept by each address separately. To bring them along, turn on Sync between devices here, then sign in with the same Google account at pagepurr.com: your files, places and highlights come back there.

Go to pagepurr.com

Go to page

Sync between devices

Sign in with Google on each of your devices, and your library, reading positions, highlights and notes stay the same on all of them.

Where your files go

Into a folder called "Pagepurr" in your own Google Drive. Nobody else can see them, including the people who made this app. The app can only see the files it puts in that folder, nothing else in your Drive. It uses your Drive's storage space, and it is free.

Removing a document while syncing removes it from all your devices and from the Drive folder.

Privacy: what is stored and where

How Pagepurr works

You can read this again from the menu, under "How it works".

Text or a web link

Paste the text to read, or the link to a web article: only the article is kept, without menus or ads.