ReadStory
ReadStory is a free educational reading app for iOS, Android, and the web that turns photos of physical books into interactive digital storybooks with OCR text recognition and text-to-speech. Parents, teachers, early readers, and language learners can also generate original children’s stories with AI, translate them, and share books via QR code, link, or an 8-character project code.
ReadStory is for parents, early readers, language learners, teachers, and libraries. Available on iOS, Android, and readstory.app.
Key facts
- Price: Free to download and use. Core OCR, text-to-speech, and book sharing are free. Registered users receive 30 AI credits every 30 days (unused expire). Buy credit packs for illustrations and extra publish slots. Educational institutions can request higher quotas.
- OCR: Latin scripts, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and Devanagari.
- Text-to-speech: 16 languages including English (US and British), Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese.
- Sharing: QR code, link, or 8-character project code.
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