Outread is a speed-reading app for websites, ebooks, and documents that displays text in small chunks. Its Guide mode highlights text, while Flash mode presents text using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Readers can adjust speed, chunk length, contrast, theme, and font, and use exercises for peripheral vision, eidetic memory, short-term memory, and chunking. Content can be added from a URL, pasted, or shared from Safari and other apps; Outread also integrates with Pocket and Instapaper. An optional account syncs content, reading history, and preferences between devices, and the App Store listing says content is available offline. It supports DRM-free ePub, PDF, DOC, RTF, and TXT files, but not DRM-protected ebooks such as Kindle books. Outread has a free plan at 0.00 USD per free. Outread+ unlocks additional features, including speeds up to 1,500 words per minute, unlimited bookmarks and notes, and more themes. AI summaries, key points, quizzes, and tag suggestions require Apple Intelligence-capable devices running the newest operating system.
Who it is for
Outread may suit readers who want adjustable text pacing or practice exercises. The maker also identifies people with dyslexia, low vision, reading challenges, or ADD as potential users.
What is good
- Guide and Flash reading modes
- Supports DRM-free ePub, PDF, DOC, RTF, and TXT
- Imports webpages by URL, paste, or share extension
- Optional sync across devices
- Free plan available
What to know first
- DRM-protected ebooks such as Kindle books are unsupported
- AI features need Apple Intelligence-capable devices
- AI features require the newest operating system
Verdict
Outread combines two pacing modes, adjustable display settings, and reading exercises with several ways to import content. Its file support excludes DRM-protected ebooks, and AI tools have device and operating-system requirements.
Outread plans and pricing
All plansCompared on speed reading apps
- Free plan
- Yes
- Pacing methods
- mixed
- Comprehension exercises
- Yes
- Content import
- Yes
- Advertised speed ceiling
- 1,500 wpm
- Guided training
- Yes
- Supported platforms
- iOS, macOS
