A playable love-letter to the 1978 spelling toy that taught a generation to read — rebuilt for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Type any word, phrase, or number and hear it spoken aloud.
Free Play now speaks more than single words. Tap SPACE and type a whole sentence — it's read back word-by-word through your chosen voice, with the display cycling as it plays. Numbers speak ("I have 2 cats" → "two"), contractions speak ("don't"), and a GAP control tunes the pause between words. SHARE renders it to a WAV you can drop into any DAW.
Type any word — your name, a made-up word, this week's spelling list — or a whole phrase, and hear it spoken aloud in a crunchy retro voice. Numbers and contractions speak too. Anything beyond the 500+ bundled words falls back to on-device speech, so every word speaks.
SpellSynth says a word — you spell it. Three mistakes and it gives you the answer, then tries a new one.
The classic hidden-word game. Pick letters until the word reveals itself; six wrong guesses and it's over.
Listen-and-repeat for pronunciation practice. Hear it spelled letter by letter, then say it aloud.
Pick a voice character in Settings. Each one draws from a different era of speech synthesis, applied to every word you hear — bundled or live-typed — and caches separately so toggling is instant after the first play. As of 1.2.6 the 1978 LPC voice is cleaner and more even — every word sits at a consistent level with no glitch on hard sounds.
Prefer no retro stamp? A Default voice gives you clean system speech with no extra processing — for when you just want clear pronunciation.
The same voice engine, bundled as an AUv3 instrument — type a word and it's spelled back live inside any DAW.
A complete guide to every mode, voice, and the AUv3 instrument — with a 60-second quick start.
Open the manual