Select text anywhere — a web page, a PDF, an email — press one shortcut, and QuickReadMac feeds it to you one word at a time, so your eyes stop wandering and your reading speed jumps.
Free for 7 days — no card, no account
One payment · No subscription · 100% private, on-device
Everything is parsed and spoken on your Mac. No servers, no telemetry, no third-party APIs — your documents never leave the machine.
Subscription readers charge every month, forever, and lock your files behind daily limits. QuickReadMac is one payment — $19.99, once — with unlimited updates and no daily quotas. Buy it, own it, done.
Every mode works on selected text, a PDF, a Word file, an ePub — and full-screen, with nothing on screen but the words.
Words flash one at a time in the centre of the screen, with the Optimal Recognition Point letter highlighted so your eye never has to move. This is the technique that makes speed reading actually work.
The whole text stays on screen. The active words brighten, the rest fade, and a reading ruler glides down the page so you never lose your place.
Only the words you're reading right now stay lit — everything else goes dark. The most ruthless way to kill distraction.
The whole text stays put, with the first letters of every word bolded so your eye lands on a fixed anchor and your brain finishes the word. Nothing moves — ideal for documentation, contracts, and readers who find RSVP too fast.
Your eye lands on the bold anchor and your brain completes the rest of the word, so the line stops sliding away from you.
The same rule the app uses, running right here: the opening letters of each word are anchored, nothing moves, and the page stays completely readable.
Select text in Safari, Chrome, Mail, Notes, Preview — press ⌃⌘R and it opens. Uses a native macOS Service, so it just works.
On-device text-to-speech detects the language of the text and reads it with a matching voice. German text gets a German voice, not an English one.
Crawl through dense contracts or sprint through a newsletter. Soft, hard and slow word transitions let you dial in exactly how it feels.
Drop a file in, or right-click it in Finder. Everything is parsed locally with Apple's own frameworks.
Close a 300-page PDF mid-chapter and it resumes exactly there next time. Your library remembers every document.
Time read, words read, average WPM, documents finished — quietly tracked, and only on your Mac.
Light, Dark, Sepia, Night, Paper, High Contrast, or the translucent system look. Plus text size, from tiny to enormous.
⌘F and the interface disappears — no chrome, no buttons, nothing but the words on a clean field.
Any app. A web page, a PDF in Preview, an email, a Slack thread.
Or right-click ▸ Services ▸ Read Selection with QuickReadMac.
The reader opens and starts. Space pauses, ⌘F goes full screen, Esc gets you out.
No subscription. Unlimited updates. Try it free for 7 days — no card, no account.
1 Mac
$19.99
one payment · no subscription
Try all four modes free for 7 days first — no card.
2 Macs
$39.99
one payment · no subscription
Try all four modes free for 7 days first — no card.
4 Macs
$49.99
one payment · no subscription
Try all four modes free for 7 days first — no card.
Prices in USD, one payment — never a subscription. 14-day money-back guarantee: if it doesn't work for you, email us and we refund you. Your licence key arrives by email and activates from inside the app.
Papers, textbooks, reading lists that don't end.
Long documents where skimming isn't an option.
Documentation, RFCs, changelogs, post-mortems.
One word at a time is easier than a wall of foreign text — and it can read it aloud in that language.
Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later — Apple silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel. The download is a single universal app.
Yes. Bionic mode leaves the whole text on screen and bolds the first letters of every word, so your eye anchors without anything moving — and you set how strong the fixation is. You can also switch it on inside Flow and Spotlight. It works on your selection in any app and on PDFs, Word files, ePub and Markdown, offline.
Yes. Drop a PDF in (or right-click it in Finder) and turn on text-to-speech: it reads aloud with Apple's on-device voices, picks a voice matching the language it detects, and highlights each word as it is spoken. Nothing is uploaded — no cloud TTS, no account, and it works on a plane.
No. Text extraction, the reading engine and the speech synthesis all run on your Mac using Apple's own frameworks. QuickReadMac makes no network requests except to check for updates and to validate a licence key you enter.
Reading stops until you enter a licence key. Everything you already read stays in your library.
Honest answer: RSVP removes the eye movement between words, which is where a lot of reading time goes, and most people comfortably read faster with it. It is not magic, and comprehension of dense material still takes the time it takes. Try it free for a week and judge for yourself.
Yes — buy Duo (2 Macs) or Family (4 Macs). One key, activated from inside the app on each Mac.
No. Reading your selection from other apps isn't permitted inside the App Store sandbox, so QuickReadMac is distributed directly — signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no warnings.
I read for a living and I was tired of two things: speed readers that live in a browser tab and can't touch the PDF already open on my Mac, and apps that charge a monthly fee for something that should just be a tool I own. So I built the reader I wanted — native to macOS, working on whatever text is in front of me, fully private, and sold the honest way: once. If it saves you time, that's the whole point.
— Emrah, maker of QuickReadMac
Free for seven days. Then $19.99, once.
Universal · macOS 13+ · Notarized by Apple