Free public beta · Mac, Windows and web
Select any text and press one shortcut. Zimplfy reads it aloud, explains it in plain words, turns it into a to-do list or rewrites it. In every app on Mac and Windows.
macOS 13 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon · Windows 10 or later
No account. Free while in beta. Or try it in your browser
This is the real reader. Press Explain, or paste a text of your own.
Zimplfy sits in the menu bar and works on the text in front of you: an email, a PDF, a chat. The result lands next to the original, or replaces it with one key.
Your application for a parking permit has been approved. The permit fee of £120 is payable within 30 days of this notice. The permit must be displayed before use.
You can have a parking permit.
Pay £120 within 30 days.
Put the permit in your car window before you park.
For anyone who finds text hard going, and for anyone who reads and writes all day. Nothing to open, nothing to paste around. It works on the text in front of you.
01 · Read aloud
A long email, a contract, a page in a PDF. Select it and listen. A natural voice reads in Swedish or English and each word is marked as it is spoken, so eyes and ears stay together. Pick 0.8×, 1.0× or 1.2×.
Before
The tenancy may be terminated by either party with three months' written notice.
The tenancy may be terminated by either party with three months' written notice.
02 · Explain
Letters from the council, insurance terms, a dense paragraph at work. Explain gives you the easy-to-read version: short sentences, one idea per sentence, hard words explained in brackets, every fact kept. Shown next to the original, never pasted over it.
Before
Reimbursement is contingent upon submission of original receipts within 60 days of the expenditure.
You get your money back if you send in the original receipts.
Do it within 60 days of paying.
03 · Summarize
Summarize gives a two-line TL;DR, then a checklist of what the text asks of you, with dates and amounts copied exactly, and one line on who it is from. Made for long threads and forms you have been putting off.
Before
A 900-word email thread about the school trip
TL;DR: The trip is 12 May. The bus leaves 07:30 from school.
What you need to do:
Pay £35 by 5 May
Sign the form and send it back
From: Year 5 teachers
04 · Rewrite
Select a messy draft and press the shortcut. A polished version appears: same meaning, same language, your voice. Press ⌘↩ (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) to replace the text. Eight styles, from Fix grammar to Professional to Translate.
Before
hi, can we move the meting to thursday? i have a thing on wen
Hi, could we move the meeting to Thursday? I have another commitment on Wednesday.
05 · Dictate
Hold the shortcut and talk the way you talk: pauses, repeats, half sentences. Let go, and clean written text appears in the language you spoke, ready to paste into any app. No voice training, no setup.
You say
“eh so the meeting tomorrow is moved to eleven and uh can you bring the the printed contract”
Heard: eh so the meeting tomorrow is moved to eleven and uh can you bring the the printed contract
Tomorrow's meeting is moved to 11:00. Could you bring the printed contract?
Zimplfy lives in your menu bar on Mac or system tray on Windows, and works inside whatever you are already reading or writing in.
Highlight text in any app: an email, a web page, a PDF, a chat. Or hold ⌃⌥D to dictate.
A small panel opens next to your cursor. Choose Read aloud, Explain, Summarize or Rewrite. The result streams in within seconds. On Windows: Ctrl+Alt+R.
Listen, read the plain version next to the original, or press ⌘↩ to replace the text with the rewrite. Esc closes.
Zimplfy does not ask who you are. It asks what the text is doing, and takes that load off.
From the tax office, the bank, the school, the landlord. Dense, formal, with a deadline hidden in paragraph four. Explain and Summarize find the deadline and say it plainly.
Threads that grew to forty messages. A reply that has to sound right. Summarize gets you the gist, Rewrite makes the reply land, Dictate lets you answer by talking.
When decoding each line takes energy, there is less left for the meaning. Read aloud with the word marked keeps the place and halves the work.
Course texts, forms and official sites in Swedish or English. Explain keeps every fact but takes out the hard words. Read aloud teaches how it sounds.
No account, no card. When Pro launches, the free plan stays.
€0
€9/month
No. Text goes to Anthropic's Claude API and is streamed straight back. Audio for read aloud and dictation goes to ElevenLabs and is not kept. Our servers store only anonymous usage counts for the free quota. See the privacy policy.
Anyone who meets too much text. Hear a text instead of decoding it, get the plain version, see what you have to do, and answer by talking. Nothing to set up, and it never judges your spelling.
Swedish and English for read aloud and dictation. Most languages for rewrite, explain and summarize. Swedish stays Swedish and English stays English unless you ask for a translation.
Yes. Zimplfy reads the selection through the operating system's accessibility APIs, with a copy-and-paste fallback that works in every browser and Electron app. That is why macOS asks for Accessibility permission on first launch.
Zimplfy is not in the App Store and not yet notarized by Apple, so a copy saved by your browser gets that dialog once. Easiest way past it: paste the one-line command from the download page in Terminal. It installs the same app with no dialog. Or open System Settings → Privacy & Security and press Open Anyway. You do it only once.
That is SmartScreen, which warns about any new installer that has not yet built up a reputation. Ours is new and not yet code-signed. Click More info, then Run anyway. You see it once per version.
Yes. On Mac, Settings offers ⌃⌥R, ⌃⌥E, ⌃⌥Space, ⌥⌘R, ⇧⌘E, F18 and F19. On Windows the default is Ctrl+Alt+R and you can pick another combination in Settings.
Claude from Anthropic for rewriting, explaining and summarizing. ElevenLabs for the voices and for turning speech into text. You can enter your own Anthropic API key in Settings to pay Anthropic directly for the text features.
macOS 13 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon · Windows 10 or later
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