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TLDR

Listen to any text, or to its summary.

Read any text aloud on Mac with the Premium voices of macOS, from the right-click menu or the menu bar, or hear its summary made on your Mac.

Audio & VideomacOS 26 or later

$4.99 plus tax, once. Every update included.

Try it here

A simulation in your browser. Nothing to install.

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What it does

Select text in any app, right-click and choose Read Aloud with TLDR: a natural voice reads it while you do something else, with each word lit up as it goes. Too long? Summarize Aloud gives you the gist first, made by Apple Intelligence on your Mac. Nothing you read ever goes online.

From the right-click menu

Read Aloud and Summarize Aloud, under Services, in every app that offers them. No permission needed.

From the menu bar

Read what you copied, or paste and type text to hear. Option-Escape reads what you select, Option-Shift-Escape sums it up first.

The voices of macOS

Premium and Enhanced voices in dozens of languages, picked for the language of each text. Download more in a click.

Summaries on your Mac

Apple Intelligence makes a short or a detailed version first, in the language of the text, on Macs that have it.

At your pace

From 0.6x to 3x, a sentence back or forward, with the word being read lit up as it goes.

Save as audio

Any reading becomes an M4A file to take with you. Nothing you read leaves your Mac.

Privacy and permissions

Accessibility

Only for the shortcuts: to read the text you selected when you press one. The right-click menu and Read Copied Text work without it.

No tracking

No analytics: what you do on your Mac stays on your Mac. The app contacts us only for its License and updates.

What you get

From the House Rules, the same for every app.

  • Pay once. Never a subscription.

    No renewals, and no reminder to cancel in time.

  • The app you buy is yours for good.

    It checks its License offline, so it keeps working even if our server doesn't.

  • One license, 5 active Macs.

    A Mac counts while you use it. One you stop using drops off by itself after 90 days.

  • 30 days to change your mind, full refund.

    No questions asked.

  • Every update is free, forever.

    No paid upgrades. An app that changes purpose is a new app, with a new license.

  • No ads, no tracking, nothing sold, in the apps.

    The app contains no analytics.

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TLDR$4.99

Subscriptionnone

Updatesfree

Next renewalnever

Paid in full. We're quits.

Information

Made by
Federico Infelici, in Arezzo, Italy
Category
Audio & Video
Requires
macOS 26 or later
Price
$4.99 plus tax, once
Support
In English or Italian

Questions

All questions
Can I try an app before buying it?

Every app page has a Demo that runs in your browser, so you can see how the app works before you buy. There's no trial to download: the 30-day refund covers the rest.

How many Macs can I use an app on?

Up to 5 active Macs at a time. A Mac is active when the app has been opened on it and has checked in with us in the last 90 days.

There's nothing to deactivate: a Mac you stop using drops out of the count on its own after 90 days. Each app's About window shows how many Macs are active.

Does the app need the internet?

Only once, to activate: the app opens your browser, you sign in, and you're sent back to the app, activated. After that it works offline.

When it's online, it checks its License at most once a day. If you're offline for months, or our servers are down, the app keeps working.

Are updates free?

Yes, all of them, forever. Every update we release for an app you own is free: no paid upgrades, no "version 2" to buy again. Updates arrive inside the app.

If we ever turn an app into something with a different purpose, that's a new app, and the one you have stays yours.

What if an app isn't for me?

You have 30 days from purchase for a full refund, no questions asked. That's longer than the 14 days EU law gives for online purchases. In your Account, choose Refund next to the app under Your orders. Can't sign in? Write to support@getquits.app with the email you paid with and your order number.

We ask Stripe for the refund at once, and the app stays active until Stripe confirms it. Then Link confirms the refund by email and the money goes back to the payment method you used. You can refund a whole order or single apps.

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