Legere Reader

Text-to-speech reading tool that supports PDF and eBooks.

App info

Version :

4.10.14.1

Category :

Education

Update :

June 14, 2025

Installs :

23,163

Developer :

Legere Technologies LLC

Price :

$7.49

Requires Android :

Android 4.4+

Content Rating :

Everyone

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: Legere Reader, Developed by Legere Technologies LLC. Listed in Education Category. Current Version Is 4.10.14.1, Updated On 14/06/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Legere Reader. Achieved Over 23 thousand Installs. Legere Reader Currently Has 961 Reviews, Average Rating 3.3 Stars

Legere Reader is an accessible reading tool for mobile and tablet devices. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both.

The visually impaired will benefit from the ability to hear documents read in their favorite voices; students and others with dyslexia will appreciate the synchronized reading capability that integrates text and voice; and everyone who wants to hear or read their documents in their own way will benefit from the configurability of the visual and voice capabilities.

Legere Reader supports reading PDF, DRM-free EPUB and DAISY eBooks and more. It can load files from file sharing apps like DropBox, Box and OneDrive, or directly from your local device. It has direct integration with the Bookshare book-sharing service.

FEATURES

Voice Reading
- Listen to documents like it's music, with play-pause button, gestures or remote control
- Continues reading when you lock the screen
- Change voice and reading speed (50-700 words per minute) on the fly
- Remembers the voice and speech rate used for each document

Visual Reading
- Switch between original layout and text-only view for PDF documents
- Synchronized word and line highlighting
- Improve focus with reduced text area and auto-scrolling
- Customizable font including OpenDyslexia font
- Font size up to 80 points for low vision users
- Adjustable margin, line spacing and character spacing
- 3 fully customizable color themes

Getting Content
- Word .doc files converted to and imported as PDF
- Word .docx, RTF, .mobi convert to and imported as ePub
- Text extraction from PDF, Plain text, and HTML files
- Text extraction from DRM-free ePub and DAISY books
- DAISY audiobooks, and audiobooks as zipped MP3 files
- Store and view PDF documents in original layout
- Dropbox, Box and OneDrive or any app which can share supported files
- Bookshare and Gutenberg
- Built-in Web Browser to download files
- Folders for organizing content
- Export full text, highlights, and notes

Navigating
- Navigation by sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, highlights, bookmarks, 15, 30, and 60 seconds
- Remembers speech and visual location where you stopped
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and note taking
- Full-text search

Voices
- Any builtin voice already on the device
- Premium voices from Acapela 24 languages available through in-app purchase
- Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Catalan, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Romanian, Icelandic and Welsh.

Important Notes:
- It is not possible to load DRM-protected books from iBooks, Kindle and Nook.
- Word level highlighting is not supported for builtin voices

What's New

Stability improvements.

Rate and review on Google Play store

3.3

961 total

5 43.3

4 7.8

3 10.0

2 12.8

1 26.0

Total number of ratings

Total number of active users rated for: Legere Reader

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

Yancy M.

****Review Update**** I uninstalled the app and reinstalled and was presented with the ability to download and use voices again. Top Tip - NEVER update this app once you get it to work. It may never do so again. Used the app over 8 years on IOS and Android. Very useful. The latest update lost all of my voices with no ability to use text to speech.

Benson Tsai

I was hoping that this would provide a similar experience to the iOS counterpart but that couldn't be further from the truth. Sadly, it only comes with ONE voice, in addition to the built-in voices. The built-in voices on a Pixel 7 does not work correctly and pauses for a long time after each period. The pronunciation dictionary is also not compatible with the iOS one. I do not know why they chose to use json import/export instead of the csv format.

Jon Heselton

Best value for a TTS app. Its integration with bookshare is great . Reader has allowed me to consume PDFs that were previously inaccessible to me (academic articles, technical specifications, etc). I've tried many TTS applications that have not worked well or simply don't parse text very well. IT can parse the text of pdfs in a manner that makes the CONTENT DIGESTABLE.

A Google user

Thank you so much for this latest update!!!! I'm changing my latest rating from a 1-star to a 4-star. This is actually useable to me again!!! I loved this app on iPhone, but when I switched to android I couldn't open files on my phone or change pronunciations. It's still a little shy of the useability of the iPhone version, but this is so much better!!!!!!!!!!! 🥰

A Google user

On IOS this app is the best thing ever! Its so useful and runs smoothly. However, on the Android version of this app is still God awful. I really hope they can fix the bugs and step their game up cause this is (in IOS) one of my favorite and most productive apps I've had. Specific problems related to this app is: It often freezes and crashes. Can't rewind without having to back out of the app entirely Horrible (& often unsuccessful) imports of documents and web page links I can go on and on but you get the point. Guess I'll just go back to checking up again after every couple of months hoping it gets better

A Google user

i am updating my review. after one year, the app has been improved a lot. want to have page flip. *********** update 2019_06_01****** Can't believe a great app on iOS has so many problem on Android. I used this app on iPhone for more than two years and it performed excellent. But it has so many problem on Android and it is already been almost a year since I install this app on my Android phone, but all these bugs problems still haven't been fixed. I hope it can become a great app on Android too.

A Google user

I purchased VDR for my iPhone years ago and it became my most used app. It's absolutely amazing. Recently I purchased VDR for Android and I'm struggling with some basic tasks--like how to get VDR to advance to the second article after finishing the first one. For the life of me I can't figure it out. Also, when I back out of an article, it takes me to the beginning of my list of articles rather than to the location of the article I was just reading. And one more thing, I am very disappointed that the NeoSpeech voice I used in iOS doesn't seem to be available in Android--but I can't criticize VDR for that.

A Google user

I like this app very much, but one major problem I don't understand has me giving it 3 stars. When listening to both PDFs & ebooks, the reader intermittently stops for no apparent reason. Usually, I like to listen while I do something else (drive, wash dishes), so having to periodically start the book playing again is pretty bothersome.