Read on purpose.

Resonance turns any PDF or ebook into a reading room — narration that follows every sentence, a margin for what you notice, and a reader that learns what you read toward.

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ResonanceNow playing
The light in the room had changed while she read, and she had not noticed the hours passing until the page went dim.
Voice · Bella
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It reads aloud. You follow, sentence by sentence.

To read slowly is itself a kind of attention, a way of staying with a sentence until it opens, and the room goes quiet around the page.
What it does

A reader built for attention.

Your library

Everything you're reading, in one place.

Books, articles, the PDF a friend sent — all in one quiet library, with a card that picks up exactly where you left off. No feed, no clutter; just what you're reading next.

Resonance library — continue reading and your books
Listen

Open books, articles, emails. It starts reading in seconds.

Drop in a PDF or ebook and Resonance begins reading aloud almost immediately — a live highlight follows each sentence, and you can tap any word to jump there.

A reader begins the moment you open it, following the words as they're spoken, one sentence at a time.
Voice · Bella · on-device
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Highlight

Mark what matters, in a swipe.

Swipe to highlight in five colors, with an Apple Pencil or a fingertip. Linger on a passage and Resonance quietly offers to mark it for you — never silently, always your call.

The sentence you wanted to keep is the one you almost read past.
You lingered here — highlight this passage?
Lexicon

Look up a word — in the sense it's used here.

Long-press any word and Resonance defines it in the context of what you're reading, grounded in real sources rather than a guess. Every lookup is saved, building a vocabulary from the books you actually read.

A certain equanimity settled over the long afternoon.
equanimitynoun
Calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation — here, the steadiness the afternoon lends her.
◇ grounded · Wiktionary
Spotlight

Eyes off. One sentence at a time.

Rest your eyes and let the book come to you — Spotlight shows a single sentence, large and centered, in step with the voice. Reading as listening, without the page pulling at your attention.

The light in the room had changed,
and she had not noticed the hours passing,
until the page went dim.
Margin

A margin for what you notice.

Highlights, notes in your own hand, and voice notes all become cards you can read beside the text — the way you'd annotate a real book, then find it all again later.

…what that experience is like is entirely shaped by memory, and memory, as we know, is anything but faithful.
note
cf. Bergson — duration vs. the snapshot
voice note
"this is the thread for the whole chapter"
Voice notes

Hold to speak a thought.

When a thought is faster than typing, hold and speak — Resonance transcribes it into a note on the spot and keeps it with the passage, so nothing slips away mid-reading.

Recording
"the room goes quiet around the page — keep this for the ending."
Ask

Ask the book a question.

Ask what a passage means, who's being referenced, or for a quick summary — answered on your device by Apple Intelligence, so your reading never leaves your phone. AI that helps you read closely, not one that reads for you.

What does she mean by "the page went dim"?
Explain simplyWhy this mattersQuiz me
Navigate

Move through a book with ease.

Every chapter, with where you are and what you've finished — tap to jump and both the text and the voice move there at once. Reading time and progress, always in view.

1A Door and a Room
2Years That Ask Questions
3The Long Afternoon12 min
4What Memory Keeps9 min
5The Page Goes Dim7 min
A reader that reads you back

It learns what you read toward.

Resonance resurfaces the passages you marked, traces the themes that run across your books, and reflects a portrait of your reading — not streaks or scores, just what you've been thinking about.

Daily Review
"…what that experience is like is entirely shaped by memory."
resurfaced this morning · marked 3 months ago
Theme Tracer
Memory & attention
Phenomenology of Perception → Ways of Seeing → 4 more
Your reading portrait
You read toward attention, time, and the ordinary.
Voices

Every voice, on your device. 30+ languages.

Studio-quality narration runs entirely on-device — no quotas, no voice minutes, fully offline. Read in English, Korean, and more than thirty languages, in a voice that sounds human.

English
Bella · Michael · Nicole · 다은 · Léa
Pricing

The free tier is the whole reader.

Honest pricing, no dark patterns. The reader is genuinely free; Premium is the part a committed reader needs second.

Free

The whole reader
  • Every voice, on-device & unlimited
  • Highlights, notes, voice notes, journal
  • On-device AI: summaries, vocab, Q&A
  • Lexicon, daily review & your reading portrait

Premium

$8.99 / mo · $69.99 / yr · 15-day trial
  • Sync across all your devices
  • Larger imports & unlimited cloud workflows
  • Audiobook export & your own typefaces
  • Deeper synthesis of your reading
FAQ
Is it really free?

Yes — the full reader is free: all voices, highlights, notes, journal, lexicon, and on-device AI. Premium adds sync, larger imports, audiobook export, and deeper synthesis. New users get a 15-day trial of everything.

What do I need to run it?

An iPhone or iPad on iOS/iPadOS 26.2 or later with Apple Intelligence — the reading and AI features rely on Apple's on-device models.

Is my reading private?

What you read, highlight, and note stays on your device. Only generic document text-processing is sent to a server, without your identity.

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