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Lector
Brian Kilgore
Read any text, PDF, or EPUB aloud — free, private, offline.
Opens the official F-Droid page
About Lector
Lector reads your documents aloud — beautifully, privately, and completely free.
Open a TXT, Markdown, EPUB, or PDF — a single file or a whole folder — or paste text, or share to Lector from any app. Lector turns it into a clean, paged reader and reads it to you using your device's own voices, highlighting the current sentence as it goes.
Features:
* Reads TXT, Markdown, EPUB, PDF, and other text files
* A real library: scan a folder and Lector remembers your books
* Picks up where you left off in every document
* Page view with a slider to move through a whole book
* Adjustable speed, sleep timer, and background-friendly controls
Private by design: no ads, no accounts, no trackers, no network access, and no permissions at all. Your text never leaves your device. Reading aloud uses the text-to-speech engine already on your phone.
Free and open source (GPLv3).
What's new in 0.6.3
Bugfix: opening Voice no longer crashes when the device has multiple system TTS voices that share a short name (for example several Chinese voices all named "zh"). Voice ids are now unique per language/locale. Still private, offline, zero permissions.
How to install Lector
- Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
- Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
- If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
- Open Lector from your app drawer.


