Hearby
Read any text aloud on your Mac, with an on-device voice
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Select text in any app and press ⌃⌥S to hear it in a natural voice. The voice runs entirely on your Mac: no cloud, no account, works offline. It skips Markdown and code symbols, so AI replies sound right. Open source. 7-day free trial, then $19 once.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Yes A macOS menu-bar or hotkey app that reads selected text aloud can wrap an open-source on-device TTS model, with accessibility APIs handling text selection.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #283 of 1018 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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