A free text-to-speech app with no app store and no account
This tool installs straight from the browser, on a phone or a computer, with no store listing, no sign-up and no subscription screen. What installing gives you, and the one thing it doesn't.
Search an app store for text to speech and the first thing most results ask for is not your text. It is an account, a trial that turns into a subscription, or permission to show you ads between clips. The app is a wrapper around a sign-up flow, and the voice is what gets you through the door.
This tool doesn’t have a store listing. It doesn’t need one: it installs from the browser, and once installed it behaves like an app — its own icon, its own window, no address bar — without anything in front of the text box.
Installing it
It takes one tap or one click, and nothing is downloaded from a store.
Android (Chrome). Open the site, tap the menu (the three dots), and choose Install app or Add to Home screen. The icon lands with your other apps.
iPhone and iPad (Safari). Open the site, tap the Share button, and choose Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen from then on, like any other app.
Windows, Mac, Linux (Chrome or Edge). Open the site and click the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar. It gets its own window and a place in the taskbar or dock. On a Mac, Safari can do the same with File → Add to Dock.
A browser that doesn’t offer installing still runs the exact same tool in a tab. Installing changes where it lives, not what it does.
What you get
One tap to open. No typing the address, no hunting through tabs, no landing on a search result first.
Its own window. On a computer, the tool sits beside your editor or your video timeline as a separate window, rather than as one tab among thirty.
Pages that open on a bad connection. The installed app keeps a copy of the site’s own pages, styles and images, so it opens quickly and still shows up when the signal drops.
Updates you don’t manage. Every time it opens with a connection, it loads the current version. There is no update button and no version to fall behind on.
Text from other apps, on Android. An installed copy appears in Android’s share menu, so you can send a paragraph from any app straight into the text box. That gets its own article.
The one thing it doesn’t do
It doesn’t make speech offline.
The voices are neural voices that run on a server, not on your phone, and every press of Speak sends your text there and gets the audio and word timings back. Installing the app doesn’t move that work onto your device. Without a connection, the app still opens, but Speak will fail with an error, the same as it would in a browser tab.
That is worth saying plainly because offline is exactly what people tend to assume an installed app means. Here, it means the shell is local. The speech isn’t.
What it keeps on your device
Only the site’s own files: its pages, styles, scripts, images and icons. The text you type, the audio made from it, and the subtitle files are never stored in that cache. Your last-used voice is remembered too, in the browser’s own storage, and that’s all.
There’s still no account. Installing doesn’t sign you in to anything, because there’s nothing to sign in to, and the limits are the same as in the browser: 5,000 characters per request and 20,000 per day.
Removing it works like any other app: long-press and uninstall on a phone, or uninstall from the app’s own window menu on a computer. The privacy page says exactly what the cache holds, if you want the precise version.