Hi Product Hunt, I'm Justin, and I built Hearby. I read a lot of AI output, and I kept skimming long replies and missing the one line that mattered. Listening while I look at the code works better for me, but every read-aloud tool I tried either read the Markdown literally ("asterisk asterisk backtick") or sent my text to the cloud to make its voice. Hearby does neither: • The voice (Kokoro) runs on your Mac. Nothing you select is uploaded, and it works with Wi-Fi off. • It cleans text up first: code blocks become "Code block: 40 lines of Swift", URLs and file paths are shortened, symbols are skipped. • It works everywhere you can select text: Mail, Safari, PDFs, Slack, terminals, VS Code, Cursor. It's open source (GPLv3), with no account and no subscription: a 7-day free trial with every feature, then $19 once. I'd love to hear what you'd use it for, and what it reads badly. I'm here all day.

Hi Product Hunt, I'm Justin, and I built Hearby.

I read a lot of AI output, and I kept skimming long replies and missing the one line that mattered. Listening while I look at the code works better for me, but every read-aloud tool I tried either read the Markdown literally ("asterisk asterisk backtick") or sent my text to the cloud to make its voice.

Hearby does neither:
• The voice (Kokoro) runs on your Mac. Nothing you select is uploaded, and it works with Wi-Fi off.
• It cleans text up first: code blocks become "Code block: 40 lines of Swift", URLs and file paths are shortened, symbols are skipped.
• It works everywhere you can select text: Mail, Safari, PDFs, Slack, terminals, VS Code, Cursor.

It's open source (GPLv3), with no account and no subscription: a 7-day free trial with every feature, then $19 once.

I'd love to hear what you'd use it for, and what it reads badly. I'm here all day.

Hearby

Read any text aloud on your Mac, with an on-device voice

Read any text aloud on your Mac, with an on-device voice