Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
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This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
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Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
The PACER Simon Technology Center has compiled this chart of Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices to help consumers and
families choose which program best suits their needs. This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change. It is not
intended to endorse one product over the other, nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
@Voice Aloud
Reader
Hyperionics
Technology LLC
Free
Text; e.g. web pages HTML, news
articles, long emails, sms and
more.
@Voice Aloud Reader reads aloud the text displayed in an Android
apps, e.g. web pages, news articles, long emails, sms and more.
Easily control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
IMPORTANT: You need Text-To-Speech engine and voices installed
on your device to use this app.
3M Cloud Library
3M Company
Free
library eBooks & audiobooks
The 3M™ Cloud Library application is a way to browse, borrow and
read popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks from your local public
library. You will need a valid library card and your library must
subscribe to this service to use the application.
Acapela TTS
Voices
Acapela Group
S.A.
$3.99
per
voice
Android Accessibility features and
screen readers
Download the Acapela TTS Voices app, buy and download one or
several voices, and get immediate capability to read aloud texts
from your e-book or newspaper, hear real time translation, give the
say to a wide range of other TTS-enabled apps... Of course, these
voices are compatible with Android Accessibility features and
screen readers (Google TalkBack, Code Factory Mobile Speak)
Adobe Reader
Adobe Systems
Free
PDF
PDF Navigation, Viewing & Annotation. Quickly open PDF
documents from email, the web, or any app that supports "Share".
View PDF Portfolios, password-protected PDFs, annotations, and
drawing markups. Search text to find specific information. Select
single page or continuous scroll modes. Easily zoom in on text or
images for a closer view. Navigate bookmarks.
Aldiko Book
Reader
Aldiko Limited
Free -
$2.99
EPUB, PDF, Adobe DRM encrypted
eBooks, and eBooks from public
libraries.
No TTS available. Fully-customizable reading experience: adjust font
size, font type, font and background colors, margin, alignment, line
spacing as well as brightness to best suit your preference. Provides
global-text search in a book, dictionary, and bookmarks. Differences
between Premium and Free are: Premium has highlights, notes and
home widget features, gets faster update and does not contain
advertisements.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
Audible for
Android
Audible, Inc
Free +
(pay
per
book)
Audiobooks by Audible
Download from a range of 100,000+ audio book titles. Audiobook
chapter navigation, bookmarking, sleep mode, variable narration
speed, button-free mode.
Audiobooks
Traveling
Classics
Free -
$0.99
Audiobooks by Traveling Classics
Listen to 2,800 classic audiobooks totally free. Easily stream or
download the books. The app keeps your place for you with
automatic bookmarking across your whole library. Also has a Sleep
Timer.
Blio
K-NFB Reading
Technology, Inc.
Free
App;
$2.99
per TTS
voice
Books purchase from Blio
Bookstore, EPUB, PDF, and XPS
Displays books in full color, with fonts, pictures, and layout.
Multiple reading views. Look up words and topics by searching
Google, Wikipedia, and more without ever leaving your book. Have
Blio read to you, highlighting each word as it does.**for
audiobooks, or rights-enabled books when TTS voice is purchased.
CamScanner
IntSig
Information
Co.,Ltd
Free -
$4.99
File creation: PDF
Document Scanner. With CamScanner, you are able to digitize any
paper documents by photo shooting. Simply take a picture of any
paper documents such as receipts, whiteboards, notes, agreement
and so forth, and CamScanner can auto-crop image, enhance image
quality and create an industry standard PDF file. And the scanned
documents can be shared via Email, faxed or printed via Internet,
uploaded to cloud, and managed by tagging or searching.
Cool Reader
Vadim Lopatin
Free
epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf,
html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi
(non-DRM), and pml formats.
Text to Speech (TTS) support. Table of contents, bookmarks, text
search. Bookmarks on text fragments (comments or corrections) -
useful for proof reading. Export of bookmarks to text file. Dictionary
support. Additional fonts support. Day and night profiles (two sets
of colors, background, backlight levels). Brightness adjustments.
Background texture or solid color.
CourseSmart for
Android
CourseSmart
LLC
Free
eTextbooks (this is a complement
to a CourseSmart eTextbook
subscription)
No TTS available. This free app is a complement to a CourseSmart
subscription. This application requires an internet connect. Add and
edit notes to pages as you study. Get a true digital equivalent of
your textbook.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
Document
Scanner
Pwn with your
Phone
Free 7
day
trial -
$3.98
File creation: PDF.
OCR Option through
GDocs/Evernote.
Document Scanner. Scan documents and receipts with your phone
camera, convert them to PDF. It is a portable scanner. Email PDF or
upload it to Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote, or Box.net. OCR
Option through GDocs/Evernote.
Dolphin Browser
Dolphin
Browser
Free
Web browser
Dolphin lets you use your voice to search on the Internet, share on
your social networks, bookmark websites, navigate and more. One-
tap sharing for web pages across various platforms. Sync easily your
history, bookmarks, passwords and open tabs across Android, iOS
and desktop. Some Add-on apps for Dolphin Browser:
SmartSpeaker (TTS), Dolphin: Skitch Add-on (annotate web pages),
Dolphin Reader (de-clutter reading on web pages), Pocket,
Dropbox, Evernote, and more.
Droid Scan Pro
PDF
Trans-code
Design
$4.49
File creation: PDF and JPEG.
OCR Option through Google Drive,
Evernote, and Google Goggles.
Document Scanner. Turn your mobile phone into a document
scanner that goes where you go. Convert any snapshot into a highly
readable JPEG or PDF by fixing geometry, contrast, and color. Ultra
high resolution scans that preserve most of the pixels in the original
photo after conversion and enhancement. Built-in integration with
OCR by Google Drive. Compatible with OCR by Evernote and Google
Goggles. Built-in integration with Box OneCloud. Compatible with
most cloud storage providers including Box and Dropbox.
eBook Reader and
Tradebit Shop
Digibooks4All
Free
Adobe Digital Editions files, Adobe
DRM eBooks, and PDF documents
Simple and fast management of your eBooks. Synchronizes your
bookmarks from PC to phone to tablet to the cloud.
EBSCOhost
EBSCO
Publishing
Free
EBSCOhost database content,
provided courtesy of your library.
HTML and/or PDF formats.
Choose which databases to search. Limit results to full text or peer
reviewed. Sort by relevance or date. Retrieve full text results in
HTML and/or PDF formats. Save results for offline access at a later
date. Email results to self or others.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
ezPDF Reader
Multimedia PDF
& ezPDF Reader G-
Drive Plugin
Unidocs Inc.
$3.99
+$0
PDF, ePub
PDF Annotation & TTS. Good for application forms, school tests,
and contracts. Fill out your PDF form with ezPDF Reader. Sign with
Freehand, and send via email. Plays multimedia files embedded into
PDF. Use Voice Reading feature to have documents read to you
with the continuous automatic page-turning feature. (It uses TTS
feature of the hardware settings). Useful tool to add text in text box
and sticky notes; highlight, underline, or strikethrough texts; draw
rectangles, ovals and freehand drawings. Add memo & append
images, change color, thickness, resize and move them around as
you like. Download free "ezPDF Reader G-Drive Plugin" App for
integrating with Google Drive. Dropbox integration included.
FBReader
& FBReader TTS+
Plugin
Geometer Plus
Hyperionics
Technology LLC
Free
Free
epub, rtf, fb2(.zip), mobi, and plain
text file formats.
FBReader (FBReaderJ) is an e-book reader. FBReader is fast, highly
customizable. FBReader is integrated with external dictionaries.
TTS+ Plugin is an enhanced Text-To-Speech plugin for FBReader for
Android. Read by sentences - the plugin pauses and resumes at
individual sentences. TTS Settings to change speech engine, control
speech rate, pitch and volume, more.
Go Read
Bookshare
Free
DAISY 3 text and EPUB 2 formats
from Bookshare
Go Read is a FREE accessible e-book reader for people with print
disabilities. Go Read is based on the open source FBReader project.
Access and download books directly from Bookshare. Read with
voiced navigation and text-to-speech. Go Read is optimized for
visually impaired readers, and usable by anyone.
Google Drive
Google Inc.
Free
OCR conversion: convert PDF and
image files to Google Docs format
View your PDFs, Office documents and more. Upload and convert
files to the Google Docs format. Take a photo of printed text and
convert it to Google Docs format.
Google Play Books
Google
Free
Google Books
Does not provide TTS, but allows use of TTS Accessibility. Change
font and search within book. (only the"reflowable text", or ePub,
(not the "scanned images") is accessible by TTS determined by file
protections).
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
Handy Scanner
Halfmobile
Free -
$3.99
File creation: PDF and JPEG.
OCR Option through Google Drive.
Document Scanner. Handy Scanner Pro turns your phone or tablet
into a document scanner. You can scan multipage documents,
whiteboards, business cards and more. Then, just share them to
GMail, Dropbox or any other application. Produces both PDF and
JPEG images.
Instapaper
Mobelux
$2.99
Web pages.
Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability.
Saves most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized
layout to optimize for tablet and phone screens. Distraction-free
reading environment gets out of your way so you can focus on the
content. Everything you download is then available OFFLINE.
Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins. Dark mode
and brightness control for night reading. Folders for organization.
Share via web browser and any app that supports sharing.
Kindle
Amazon Mobile
LLC
Free
Kindle Books, PDF, and Docs
No TTS available. Support for notes and highlights, zoom and pan,
and linked table of contents. Customizable background color and
font size. Dictionary word lookup available.
Kobo
Kobo Inc.
Free
Kobo books, and ePub
No TTS available. Add books in EPUB format to your Android
storage, Browser, Mail or Dropbox and select Import Content from
the library menu. Enjoy crisp, clear text, and choose the size and
style of text that you prefer and screen brightness. Highlight your
favorite passages and add notes to your books.
LibriVox Audio
Books Free
BookDesign
Free
Audiobooks provided by LibriVox.
LibriVox Audio Books provides free access to over 6,000
audiobooks. Each audiobook can be streamed over the internet or
downloaded for later use. Stop playback with a sleep timer, and
unlimited bookmarks are available for each book.
Mantano Ebook
Reader
Mantano SAS
Free -
$6.99
EPUB or PDF, Adobe DRM
Text-to-speech function. Features: highlight and annotate excerpts,
share quotes and annotations with friends, annotate contracts,
lookup words in dictionaries, bookmark locations.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
Mobile OCR Pro
Smart Mobile
Software
Free -
$3.99
OCR file creation: in app Text
Turn your smartphone into a document scanner with character
recognition (OCR). Mobile OCR will convert your scanned
documents from your camera or photo album into a regular text.
Moon+ Reader
Pdf Plugin of
Moon+ Reader Pro
Moon+ Reader
Free -
$4.99
epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz,
umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or
OPDS formats.
Shake the phone to speak (Text-to-speech, TTS engine support).
PDF support, fast & speech compatible. Dictionary, annotations,
highlights & bookmarks share support. Dropbox supported. Fill out
PDF Form with highlighting, annotation, and handwriting. Full visual
options: line space, font scale, bold, italic, shadow, alpha colors,
fading edge, themes, background images and fonts, etc.
NOOK from Barnes
& Noble
Barnes & Noble
Free
Books purchased from Barnes &
Noble, and ePub
Add notes, bookmarks, and highlights, built in Merriam-Webster’s
Pocket Dictionary, adjustable font size, style and color themes.
OneClickdigital
Recorded Books
Free
Audiobooks from local libraries.
Easy to use application to download and transfer Audiobooks from
local libraries using the OneClickdigital lending platform. SD card
required.
OverDrive Media
Console
OverDrive, Inc.
Free
library eBooks & audiobooks,
DRM-free EPUB
TTS not provided. Download eBooks and audiobooks from your
public, school, or college library. Each EPUB eBook and MP3
audiobook that you check out has a lending period. The title
automatically expires in the app at the end of the lending period.
Pocket
Read It Later
Free
Articles, videos or pretty much
anything you find online.
When you find something on the web that you want to view later,
put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or
computer so you can view it any time, even without an internet
connection.
Readability
Make Readable
Later
Readability
d0lph1nk1ng
Free
Free
Web pages.
Read on Your Terms. Readability turns any Web page into a clean
view for reading now or later on your computer or Android device.
Store It. Share It. Read It. To start saving articles from the Web to
Readability, visit the Readability website using your favorite
browser and install the free Readability add-on. Customize the
reading view by adjusting type size, text style, and contrast to your
liking. Readability also provides built-in native sharing support.
Accessible Reading Apps for Android Devices
PACER Simon Technology Center 2013
This information is current as of February 2013, but is subject to change.
It is not intended to endorse one product over the other nor to be inclusive of all products on the market.
© 2013 by PACER Center Simon Technology Center • 8161 Normandale Blvd • Minneapolis, MN • 55437 • Voice (952) 838-9000 •
TTY (952) 838-0190 • FAX (952) 838-0199 • Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.pacer.org/stc
App
Developer
Price
Files Supported
Description
Reader - eBooks
from Sony
Sony Electronics
Inc.
Free
eBooks from Sony bookstore,
ePub and PDF.
Adjustable font size and contrast to customize your reading
preferences. Create and edit bookmarks and highlights as you read.
RepliGo PDF
Reader
Cerience
Corporation
$2.99
PDF
PDF Annotation & TTS. RepliGo PDF Reader enables PDF viewing,
annotating, printing and form filling. Review documents on the go
by adding highlights, cross outs, underlines, sticky notes, arrows,
lines, ovals, rectangles, freehand drawings and text boxes.
Comments are stored as standard annotations in the original PDF
file, just like Adobe® Acrobat®. Direct access to cloud-based PDF
files stored in Box, Dropbox and Google Drive. Send PDF files via
email, Bluetooth and cloud services. Read documents easily with
reflowed text, text-to-speech, color themes and brightness settings.
Scanthing OCR
Scanthing
$5.12
OCR file creation: in app Text
Document Scanner & TTS. Scanthing extracts text from pictures
and documents and allows you to search for them by keywords on
your phone using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology
and now playback the text using Text-To-Speech Technology.
