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 100 AI requests per month. 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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