Features

Everything readz does, in detail.

Every item on this page is in the beta today. What is planned is listed at the end, and marked as such.

Reading

RSVP: words are shown one at a time in a fixed position, so the eye stops moving along the line and only the word changes.

100 to 1000 words per minute: Set the speed, and the step it moves by: 10, 25, 50 or 100 wpm. Tap the speed display while reading to change it.
ORP at a fixed spot: The focus letter is the 1st letter of a one-letter word, the 2nd for 2 to 5 letters, the 3rd for 6 to 9, the 4th for 10 to 13 and the 5th beyond. It always sits slightly left of centre.
Sentence context: The surrounding sentence is shown above the current word, so you never lose your place. Tap any word in it to jump there.
Playback controls: Play or pause with the centre button or a tap on the display, seek five words back or forward, drag the progress slider, or restart.
Skip the small words: Optionally leave out determiners, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions or auxiliary verbs and read only the words that carry the meaning.
Notes while you read: Flag a word, add a comment or a link without stopping. Your notes stay with the reading session.

Send text to readz from the app you are in, and it opens ready to play.

“Readz it” (Android): Select text in any app and tap “Readz it” in the text-selection toolbar.
Share sheet (Android, iOS): Share text from any app to readz through the system share sheet.
Web pages: Share a page's link: readz fetches it and keeps only the article, without menus, ads and footers.
Paste (everywhere): Paste text straight into the app.
A link (web): Open readz on the web with a ?text=… parameter and the text is ready to read.
Google Assistant (Android): Start readz from Google Assistant.

Text-to-speech reads the text while the display stays in step: the speech engine is the clock, and the word on screen follows the voice.

Word-by-word sync: Word boundaries from the speech engine drive the visual word, so the highlighted word always matches what is spoken.
Follows your speed: The speech rate scales with your words-per-minute setting.
Pause, seek, toggle: Pause and resume keep your position; seeking restarts the voice from the new word; turn it on or off mid-session.
Your language, in the background: Pick the voice language; reading aloud keeps playing in the background. Voices are the ones installed on the device.

Every setting is remembered between sessions.

Reading speed: 100 to 1000 wpm, 300 by default.
Speed step: 10, 25, 50 or 100 wpm, 50 by default.
Word size: 24 to 72 pt.
Sentence size: 9 to 22 pt.
ORP highlighting: On or off, in one of eight preset colours.
Auto-start and read-aloud: Whether readz starts by itself, and whether it reads aloud.

One account for every waiyer app, and readz on the device you have at hand.

One Google sign-in: The same account as memo and every other waiyer app, managed in one place.
Your history follows you: Reading sessions, saved texts and stats are kept with your account when the readz service can be reached.
Works offline: Once signed in, reading works without a connection; your history syncs when you are back online.
Picture-in-picture (Android): Keep reading in a small window over your other apps.
Android, iOS and the web: Android 5.0 and later, iOS 12 and later, and Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
Dark and distraction-free: A minimal dark interface: the word, the sentence, and nothing else.

06Planned

Planned, not shipped yet. Nothing here is in the app today.