{"package_name":"io.loopstring.readme","name":"Read Me Offline","summary":"Share an article or text, trim it, and hear it read aloud on-device","category":"Reading","icon_url":"/api/icon/io.loopstring.readme","latest_version_code":82,"latest_version_name":"1.1.1","apk_url":"/api/apk/io.loopstring.readme","apk_size":16371741,"apk_sha256":"af6befab1bcd30a7dcf2a7b5ef3d0f10e1c696740d796b2999d09ec6cc8c3a9b","source_kind":"fdroid-repo","repo_slug":"fdroid-main","last_updated":1793851246,"release_timestamp":1793758621,"description":"Read Me Offline reads articles and text aloud with the text-to-speech voice already on your phone. Share a link from your browser or selected text from any app, cut the parts you don't want, and listen with the screen off.\n\n<b>Share it, trim it, listen to it</b>\n<ul>\n<li>Share a link and Read Me Offline fetches the page once and keeps only the article.</li>\n<li>Share selected text from any app and it is ready to read straight away.</li>\n<li>Trim before you listen: tap a paragraph to cut it (a newsletter plug, a comment section), or cut everything before or after a point. Cuts are never destructive; tap again to restore.</li>\n<li>The sentence being read is highlighted, and playback keeps going with the screen off. Media buttons and headset controls work.</li>\n<li>Speed from 0.5x to 4x. Your place is saved as you go, and finished items move to the Archive.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<b>Private by design</b>\n<ul>\n<li>Speech is made on your phone by Android's text-to-speech engine. Voices that need a network connection are never offered or used.</li>\n<li>The only network request is fetching a link you shared, or retrying one when you ask. No accounts, analytics, crash reporting, ads or update checks.</li>\n<li>What you save stays in the app's private storage and is never written to logs. Deleting an item deletes its text.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<b>A voice for Obsidian on Android</b>\nObsidian on Android gives plugins no way to use the phone's speech engine. Read Me Offline can run a small speech service, reachable only from the phone itself, that the local-tts-reader Obsidian plugin uses to read your notes aloud with the same on-device voices. It is off until you turn it on in Settings.\n\nRead Me Offline needs a text-to-speech engine with at least one offline voice. Most phones have one; if yours doesn't, the app tells you and links to Android's speech settings.\n","categories":["Reading","Text to Speech"]}