Terms of Use

Who these terms are from

ReadSong: Text Speech Reader (“ReadSong”, “the app”) is published by FPankau (“we”, “us”), based in Piła, Poland. You can reach us at fpankau@tutanota.com.

The free plan

ReadSong can be used for free with a daily allowance of listening (currently 3 minutes a day), with every voice. The built-in sample, chapter one of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, plays without limit. When the day’s allowance runs out, the sentence being read finishes and playback pauses until the next day or until you subscribe.

The free plan is offered as it is: we may change the daily allowance, including making all listening require ReadSong Pro. A change never affects a subscription you have paid for.

ReadSong Pro

• What it includes. Unlimited listening and audiobook export, for as long as the subscription is active.
• Plans and payment. ReadSong Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly, bought through the App Store. The price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• Renewal. The subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the same length and price, unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
• Free trials. If a free trial is offered, the app says so before you subscribe. The subscription starts when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before then, and any unused part of a trial ends when you buy a subscription.
• Managing and cancelling. In your Apple Account settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions), or with Manage subscription in ReadSong’s Settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro stays active until the end of the period you have paid for.
• Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple’s rules. We cannot issue refunds ourselves.
• Restoring. A subscription belongs to your Apple Account. On a new iPhone, or after reinstalling, use Restore purchases in the app.

Your documents

Everything you add to ReadSong stays yours. The app reads, converts and speaks your documents on your iPhone, and we never receive them; see the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for having the right to use the documents you import, listen to and export. Audiobooks and captions you make with ReadSong are for your own personal use: don’t share or publish them where you don’t have the rights to the text, for example a copyrighted book. ReadSong does not open ebooks protected by DRM. When you import a web page, the website’s own terms apply to its content.

The voices

The voices are synthetic: they are generated on your iPhone by neural voice models (Kokoro and Supertonic, run with FluidAudio), and text in photos and scans is recognised by Apple’s Vision framework. Both can make mistakes: a voice may mispronounce a word, misread a number, an abbreviation or a passage in another language, and text recognition may misread a page. Where accuracy matters, for example medical, legal or financial documents, check the original text.

Don’t use the voices to pass audio off as a real person’s recording or to deceive anyone. The voice models and the speech engine are third-party components provided under their own open-source licences and credited in ReadSong’s Settings. Voice packs that don’t ship inside the app are downloaded from Hugging Face and need a connection the first time.

Changes to the app and to these terms

We may update ReadSong, change or remove features, and update these terms. When a change matters to you, for example to the free plan or to what Pro includes, we will say so in the app or in the App Store release notes before it takes effect, and the “last updated” date above will change. If you don’t agree with a change, you can stop using the app and cancel your subscription.

Warranty, liability and your rights as a consumer

Warranties, liability and the governing law are set out in Apple’s standard EULA. Nothing in these terms limits the rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms: fpankau@tutanota.com.