For iPhone

Scan it. Read it. Hear it.

Legenda is a reading app. Photograph a page of a book you own, or bring in a PDF, an EPUB or a web page. Then read it your way, or listen while each word is lit.

Legenda is not in the App Store yet. Early access will be announced on the YouTube channel.

I   What it does

01   SCAN

A photograph of a page becomes text.

Crop the page and Legenda reads it and hands it back as text, page number included. Nothing to retype.

The crop screen with a photographed page of Meditations
02   LISTEN

Hear it, word by word.

Press play and the sentence being read is highlighted, so you can follow along or look away. Choose a narrator and a pace.

The reader with the sentence being read highlighted
03   BRING IN ANYTHING

PDF, EPUB, web pages, paste.

Open a PDF, EPUB, text or Markdown file, paste from your clipboard, or fetch an article by its web address. Everything lands on one shelf.

The Add a book sheet: scan, paste, import a file, from a website
04   READ YOUR WAY

One text, four ways to read it.

Pages, like the book. Scroll, one long page. Focus, one sentence at a time. Speed, one word at a time with the key letter held still, at your pace up to 700 words a minute.

Focus: one sentence at a timeSpeed: one word at a time
05   COMFORTABLE

Make the text as big as you need.

Drag one slider to go up to double size. Press and hold any sentence to copy it.

The text size slider

II   See it move

Short films

Each one is under thirty seconds and shows a single thing the app does.

III   Private by design

Your books stay yours.

On your phone

Your library, scans and text are stored in the app. Text is recognised on the phone with Apple's Vision.

No accounts

No sign-in, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.

Online only if you ask

Voices and web pages download when you choose. An online voice stays off unless you add your own key. Read the policy.

Follow Legenda

New short films every few days, and early access announced first on the channel.