Reading shouldn't be the exhausting part. Listen instead.
If decoding a wall of text is the wall, Harkable turns any document, article, or PDF into clear, natural audio you can just listen to. Same content, none of the fight. No subscription. No app. Just the file.
With dyslexia, comprehension usually isn't the problem — decoding is. You can understand the material perfectly once it's in your head; it's the slog of turning symbols into words that drains the energy and makes a long document feel like a brick wall. So it gets put off, skimmed, or skipped.
Audio takes the wall down. Drop in the PDF, Word doc, or pasted text, pick a voice, and a few minutes later you have an MP3 you can listen to on a walk, a drive, or with your eyes closed. The information goes straight in, no decoding tax. You get through what you'd otherwise avoid.
Pay-as-you-go, no subscription: two MP3s a month are free, and when you have more to get through you pay for that stretch and stop. Credits never expire — nothing quietly charging you for the months you don't need it.
Where it helps
The document you keep putting off
The report, the assignment, the long email thread you've reopened five times. Convert it once and listen — the thing you were avoiding gets done on the next walk.
Long reading you'd never finish by eye
A book chapter, an article, a manual. When reading it visually would take all evening and cost all your focus, listening lets you actually get through it.
Proofing your own writing
Spotting your own typos and jumbled sentences by sight is hard with dyslexia. Hearing your draft read back makes the mistakes obvious — the wrong word, the sentence that doesn't track.
Work and life admin
Contracts, forms, dense emails, terms you're supposed to read. Convert them and listen so nothing important gets skipped just because reading it was a slog.
Studying without burning out
Convert notes or readings and listen on repeat while you move. You keep your energy for understanding the material instead of spending it all on decoding.
What this typically costs
Most light weeks: $0 (two free MP3s a month). When you have a stack to get through, a typical run of a few documents is about $5–$10 from a one-time credit pack that starts at $5 and never expires — you pay for the weeks you use it, with no auto-renewing subscription in between.
What Harkable doesn't do
- A dyslexia treatment, tutor, or reading program — it just gets the text into your ears.
- Highlight-along, follow-the-words reading inside your browser (if you want the words to track as they're read, Edge Read Aloud does that, free).
- OCR on scanned, image-only PDFs (we read text-based files, which most documents already are).
- A replacement for formal accommodations — it's a practical everyday tool that works alongside them.
Try Harkable free
2 free MP3s every month, forever. No card required. Pay only when you want more, credits start at $5 and never expire.
Also helpful for ADHD and other reading needs — see Harkable for accessibility.