Read-it-later,for your ears.
Select text in any app, press ⌥⌘L, and Orate reads it aloud in a natural voice, in a listening queue, entirely on your Mac.
Free 14-day trial. $4.99 one-time to keep · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
From a highlight to a headphone moment.
You don't copy-paste, upload, or wait on a server. Orate lives in your menu bar and turns anything you're reading into something you can listen to.
Capture
Select text in any app and press ⌥⌘L, or right-click and choose Add to Orate. The window title becomes the title.
Queue
It lands in your listening queue and starts rendering on-device, cleaned up for the ear, with paragraphs and pauses intact.
Listen
Play, pause, scrub, change speed or voice, from the menu bar or the library. It remembers where you left off.
Your whole listening queue, in one place.
A calm library for everything you've saved, and a menu-bar home you can glance at without leaving what you're doing.
It lives in the menu bar.
No dock clutter. Click the waveform in your menu bar to see what's playing and what's next, switch to the HD voice, or jump into the library, all without leaving the app you're in.
Capture from anywhere with ⌥⌘L, and control playback from right here.
A small app that takes listening seriously.
Entirely on-device
Speech is synthesized on your Mac. Your text and audio never leave it. No account, no cloud, no tracking.
Voices with character
14 built-in voices, American & British, plus an optional HD voice for extra naturalness when you want it.
Your pace
0.5× to 2× with pitch preserved, and a time-remaining that re-times to your speed. Skip forward and back.
A real queue
Up Next, tags, notes, and resume-where-you-left-off. Your library survives a relaunch.
Lives in the menu bar
No dock clutter. A quiet home for what's playing, where you are, and what's up next.
Yours to keep
One-time $4.99 with all minor updates included. The version you buy keeps working, forever.
Not everyone reads the same way.
Orate is on-device text-to-speech that turns anything on your Mac into audio you can actually get through. For a lot of people that isn't a nice-to-have — it's what makes the reading happen at all.
Dyslexia — hearing the words alongside the page takes the friction out of reading.
Low vision — listen at a comfortable pace instead of straining at small text.
ADHD & focus — audio keeps you moving through the long read your eyes want to bounce off.
Eye strain & migraines — rest the screen without giving up on your reading list.
And when your eyes are just busy — cooking, walking, on the commute — your reading list comes along for the ride.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
The text you capture and the audio Orate produces are synthesized and stored on your own device. Never uploaded, never logged, never ours. There's no account and no telemetry. The only time we hear from you is when you buy a license.
A one-time price, no subscription.
All minor updates included
14-day free trial, no card to start
Perpetual license: the version you buy keeps working
Works fully offline, on your Mac
Secure checkout via Polar · instant license by email · or start the free trial
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) · macOS 14 or later