Turn your curriculum into audio the kids can listen to.
Harkable turns readings, living books, and curriculum pages into MP3s your kids can listen to — in the car, during independent work, or as a read-along — even when there's no audiobook version to buy. No subscription. No app. Just the file.
Homeschooling is a lot of reading — to the kids, with the kids, and for yourself to stay a chapter ahead. And the specific reading your curriculum assigns usually isn't sitting on Audible: it's a passage, a chapter of a living book, an article, a page you printed. So it all falls on you to read aloud, every time.
Harkable gives you an audio version of exactly the material you're using. Drop in the PDF, Word doc, or pasted text, pick a voice, and a few minutes later you have an MP3. Now the reading can happen in the car, while you work one-on-one with another child, or as a calm listen-along at the table — without your voice having to carry every minute of it.
Pay-as-you-go suits a school year: convert what you need for the week, quiet weeks are free (two MP3s a month), and there's no subscription running over the summer. Credits never expire, so a pack you buy in fall is still there in spring.
How homeschool families use Harkable
Readings with no audiobook version
The living book chapter, the history passage, the article your curriculum assigns. Turn it into audio the kids can listen to, even though no one sells it as an audiobook.
Car-schooling
Convert the week's readings and play them on drives to co-op, activities, or errands. The miles you're already driving become part of the school day.
Independent work while you teach another child
Give one child their reading as audio to work through on headphones while you focus on a sibling. Everyone stays moving instead of waiting for you.
A read-along for a reluctant or emerging reader
Let a struggling or early reader follow the text while they hear it read clearly. Hearing and seeing the words together builds confidence without the fight.
Your own prep reading
Convert the teacher's guide or the chapter you need to be ready for and listen while you make dinner, so you walk into the lesson prepared.
What this typically costs a homeschool family
Light weeks are free (two MP3s a month). A regular week of converting readings for one or more kids typically runs a few dollars from a one-time credit pack that starts at $5 and never expires — you spend on the weeks you use it, with no auto-renewing subscription over breaks.
What Harkable doesn't do
- A curriculum or lesson plan — it reads the material you already use aloud; it doesn't teach or plan.
- A library of published audiobooks (for those, Audible or your library's Libby is the right tool).
- A dramatized, multi-voice recording — it's a clean, natural single narrator.
- OCR on scanned, image-only pages (we read text-based files; scans of a printed page won't work).
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.
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