About Legere Reader
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...
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
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Legere Reader since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-26 13:51:49.
The latest version is 4.16.29 and it was updated on 2026-06-11 02:29:37. See below the changes in each version.
Legere Reader version 4.16.29
Updated At: 2026-06-01
Changes: Restored Google Books cover lookups (was being blocked by an API change). Crash fixes for a database transaction race that affected scrolling, a launch crash that could occur after app updates, and several rare Firebase races. Fixed a brief light-theme flash when opening some screens.
Legere Reader version 4.16.28
Updated At: 2026-04-16
Changes: Fixed audio focus so playback resumes correctly when other apps interrupt.
Smoother fast-forward and rewind when tapping rapidly.
Book title now appears instantly when opening a new document.
Stability and reliability improvements.
Legere Reader version 4.16.18
Updated At: 2026-03-15
Changes: Fixed several import issues.
Performance improvements.
Accessibility improvments.
Legere Reader version 4.16.16
Updated At: 2026-03-07
Changes: Accessiblity Improvements
Stability Improvements
Legere Reader version 4.16.12
Updated At: 2026-02-15
Changes: Stability Improvements
Accessibility improvements
Legere Reader version 4.16.6
Updated At: 2026-01-27
Changes: Stability Improvements
Legere Reader version 4.15.18
Updated At: 2026-01-19
Changes: Accessibility improvements.
Stability improvements.
Legere Reader version 4.14.2
Updated At: 2025-12-07
Changes: Importer performance improvements.
Various bug fixes.
Legere Reader version 4.11.12
Updated At: 2025-09-01
Changes: Fixed an issue openning documents imported from older versions.
Accessiblity improvements
Stability improvements
Legere Reader version 4.11.4
Updated At: 2025-07-12
Changes: Fixed the Bookshare login
Fixed issues with loading voices for the document's language.
Stability improvements
