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Health and science, read aloud.
SciRead turns free health books and research articles into something you can listen to. Pick a book, press Play, and a clear voice reads it to you, one sentence at a time, while you cook, walk, travel or rest your eyes.
Free with a free account, and ads. Sign in with Apple, Google or email.
1,300+ free books, to listen to.
Health research, care and policy, food and nutrition, the environment, veterans' health and public health.
- Over 1,300 free books from the NCBI Bookshelf of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Browse by topic, search by title, or start with a Good first listen
- Every book is free, with its licence and credit shown
Press Play. Keep living.
Listen like an audiobook, with controls made for long reading.
- Play and pause, 15 seconds back or forward, and Back and Next by sentence
- Keeps reading with the screen off or while you use other apps
- Control it from the notification, the lock screen or your headphones
- SciRead remembers where you stopped in every book
Follow every word, or just listen.
Switch from Listen to Read to see the whole page while the voice reads.
- The sentence being read is marked, and the page follows the voice
- Tap any sentence to hear it from there
- With Premium: text size, font, line spacing, and a sepia or dark page
Millions of papers, without the reference lists.
Free full-text research, ready to hear.
- Millions of free full-text papers from PubMed Central and Europe PMC
- Search any subject, or start from topics like heart, cancer, diabetes, mental health, sleep, food, ageing and genes
- Hear a paper's summary and sections
Browse while you listen.
On a tablet, the player sits beside the books.
- Books on one side, the player on the other
- The same shelf and places as your phone, with your free account
Designed for iPhone Duo.
SciRead is made for the wider iPhone Duo screen: browse your books and listen, side by side.
Read along with each sentence marked, in Elements or one of the Premium themes. See every iPhone Duo screenshot.
Six themes. Read in the one you like.
Elements is free. Clinical, Lumen, Atlas, Spatial and Heritage come with Premium. These are the real player screens.
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What SciRead costs
Free
With a free account, and ads
- Every book and article
- Listen and Read along
- Speed 1x or 1.25x
- Your shelf and places, synced to your devices
- The Elements theme
Premium
3 months or 1 year, in the App Store or Google Play
- No ads anywhere in the app
- Five more themes: Clinical, Lumen, Atlas, Spatial and Heritage
- Any speed from 0.5x to 2x, with the tone of the voice
- Your choice of your phone's English voices
- A sleep timer, and reading tools for text size, font, spacing, sepia and dark pages
You can also watch a short video for one hour without big ads. Premium prices are shown in the App Store and Google Play for your country.
Questions about SciRead
Who is SciRead for?
Patients and families, carers, students, nurses and anyone who wants to understand health and science better.
Is SciRead free?
Yes. Every book and article is free with a free account, and the app shows ads. SciRead Premium removes the ads, adds five themes and unlocks the advanced player controls.
Why do I need an account?
Your free account keeps your shelf and your place in every book, and brings them to your other devices. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. It is the same free account you use in PubMed Hub.
Where do the books and articles come from?
The NCBI Bookshelf, PubMed Central and Europe PMC. Each book shows its licence and credit.
Does SciRead give medical advice?
No. SciRead is a reading and listening tool. Talk to a doctor about your own health.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad from the App Store, and Android phones and tablets from Google Play.
Get SciRead.
Free on iPhone, iPad and Android. Scan with your phone's camera, or tap a button.
iPhone, iPad
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