Hi Product Hunt! I'm Karan, maker of Steer.

I wanted to listen to anything: a book, a long article, a PDF, a message. And I wanted it to sound like it was being read to me, without uploading my life to the cloud. So Steer runs on your own Mac or Android phone, offline, with no account.

What it does:

📚 60,000+ free classics, read aloud in an expressive voice, with story music that shifts with the scene (try Dracula at night)

🌐 Any web page, PDF or selected text, read to you

🎙️ Voice commands like "read Dracula", "next chapter", "play something calm". Messages always ask before they send.

🔔 Messages read to you, then your book picks up mid-sentence

🎲 Voice games, like guessing a book from its first line

One small on-device model decides when to read, pause, duck the book or act on what you say.

It's free. We'd love to hear what you'd want read aloud, and where it trips up.