Free PDF Reader
Listen to PDFs Aloud

ReadLoudly is a free browser-based PDF reader with built-in AI text-to-speech. Upload any PDF and listen with 1200+ natural voices — no download, no account required. It also supports highlighting, bookmarking, dark mode, and AI chat with your PDF.

Yes. ReadLoudly's PDF reader works entirely in your browser. Upload your PDF, choose a voice, and press play. No app, plugin, or sign-up needed. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge on desktop and mobile.

Yes, but use the Scanned PDF Reader for those. It applies OCR to extract text from image-based pages before reading them aloud, in 40+ languages. This page handles PDFs that already contain selectable text.

Yes. ReadLoudly lets you highlight text, add bookmarks, and create notes while the PDF plays. All annotations sync to your dashboard and are accessible across devices.

Free users can upload PDFs up to 50 MB. Core ($5/month) raises that to 200 MB, Plus ($10/month) to 350 MB, and Pro ($19/month) to 500 MB, all with no page limit.

Yes. Reading and listening to PDF files is free, with no account required to start and no watermark on anything. Paid plans — Core at $5/month, Plus at $10/month, Pro at $19/month — raise the upload size limit, unlock all 1200+ AI voices, add MP3 downloads and offline listening, and remove ads.

Yes — PDF is fully supported on this page, and it is one of 24 formats ReadLoudly reads aloud: documents (PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF), ebooks (EPUB, MOBI, AZW, FB2, CHM, LRF, LIT, PDB, RB), text and web files (TXT, HTML), comics (CBR, CBZ), and images (via OCR) (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, SVG). Upload a PDF file here and it opens straight away; any other format on that list has its own reader page.

Yes. This reader runs in the mobile browser on iOS and Android — nothing to install — so you can open a PDF file straight from your phone's Files app, an email attachment or a cloud drive. Playback continues in the background, and your position syncs to any other device you sign in on.

It is parsed to extract its text, then removed from the processing servers. ReadLoudly does not train models on your files, does not share them with third parties, and does not make them visible to anyone else. Signed-in users can choose to keep a PDF file in their own private library; a guest upload is discarded when the session ends.

Every format gets its own reader page rather than being funnelled into one generic uploader, so nothing loses its format-specific handling. Nearest neighbours to PDF among ReadLoudly's documents: PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF. The Tools page lists all of them.