Read&Write7.17.0 - App Store

Read&Write for iPad is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration.

Read&Write provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. Read&Write is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text.

PRODUCT FEATURES

. Text-to-Speech
- Type into Read&Write and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily.
- You can import documents into Read&Write from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive.. Read&Write can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub.
- Text from any app can be copied and pasted into Read&Write ready to be read back.
- Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into Read&Write, and can be listened back to ensure it is right.
- The Apple spell check works in Read&Write too, further helping accuracy.
- You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice.

. Word Prediction
Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately.

. Visual Highlighting
Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. Read&Write lets you pick the colour and style of highlighting required.
There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting.

. Font & Layout
Change the font type, size or colour to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasise. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library.

. Save to Audio
Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go.

. Share your text
Text created within Read&Write can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari.

. Read webpages
You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read&Write Toolbar" extension from the share menu.

* Spellcheck & Grammar check
Use the Read&Write spellcheck feature that can provide you with additional word descriptions and pictures to help you find the correct word.

Also included in this app is the Read&Write Keyboard app, which is a powerful keyboard replacement that works in every app. Supporting reading, writing, comprehension and vocabulary development, Read&Write provides a rich set of features which extend accessibility and provide a range of tools to help with literacy including:

. Text to speech
. Prediction
. Dictionary / Talking dictionary
. Picture Dictionary
. Check It
. Talk&Type (available for iOS 10 and above)
. Speak as I type
. OpenDyslexic font support
. Language translation in Safari (French or Spanish, Locale dependent)
. French language localisation

The Read&Write keyboard app provides help everywhere it’s needed whether it’s working on documents, presentations, being creative or just using mail. It’s great for those with individual needs such as Dyslexia and those where English is not their first language, but it’s designed for everyone.

Version History Adds support for Norwegian in the Check It and Dictionary lookup features.

Adds support for Danish in the Dictionary lookup feature.

Adds support for Italian, German and Sami (Northern and Lule) predictions.

Updated the Scan from file feature to now work entirely offline.

Fixes a bug where the speech highlighting in the editor app could be out of sync when using the Ceitidh voice.

Fixes various UX discrepancies with the Camera scan screen.

Resolves an issue in the Dictionary window in the editor app, where tapping play on an other entry was not highlighting the correct text. 7.17.0 Oct 5 Adds a new setting to control the display language of Read&Write directly from the settings menu.

Adds support for Scottish Gaelic text-to-speech.

Updated the Text Size setting to now also control the size of the spelling and grammar text elements.

Improved support for liquid glass in the editor app.

The text highlight colour for speech text changed in the editor app, now also apply to the keyboard app.

Fixes various locale and layout issues with the language selector and the keyboard app.

Adds missing localisations.

Various bug fixes and improvements. 7.16.2 Sep 8 Fixes a bug where the settings screen from the Dashboard > Accounts page flow was not being localized correctly. 7.16.1 Jul 9 This release brings major improvements to Check It, dictionary support, settings, and language coverage.

* Refreshed settings experience with updated layout, icons, and clearer Check It options.

* Redesigned Check It suggestions in the editor and Read&Write keyboard, with improved spacing, visuals, and easier actions for adding or ignoring words.

* Check It in the editor now works as an on/off toolbar button, matching the standard Read&Write experience more closely.

* Dictionary lookup is now available in the editor app.

* Added support for Swedish spellcheck and dictionary lookup.

* Added support for Urdu voices. 7.16.0 Jun 25 Unified Read while typing settings - all read while typing settings are now available in both the Editor and Keyboard app:

* Read while typing
* Read sentence
* Read word
* Read letter name (AI voices not supported)
* Read letter sound

Change "use letter colors" name in keyboard to "highlight vowels" in editor settings to maintain consistency.

Updated display titles in the sign in and accounts screen.

Added a fallback to iOS system voices when using “Read letter names” with an AI voice selected.

Fixes a bug where Read aloud continues to read even after switching to other pages.

Fixes a bug where the Canadian language was loading incorrect localisation strings in the Keyboard app.

Fixes a crash that could occur when importing a PDF in to Read&Write from Safari.

Fixes a bug where playback would sometimes not pause correctly when speech was transitioning to the next sentence 7.15.1 May 19 Added new AI text-to-speech voices for selected languages.

Added word predictions for Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Added a new live scanning feature when scanning photos: you can now choose to either have the text in the image highlighted and read aloud and/or import the scanned text as a new document.

Added a new PDF open flow for better management of PDF files and directly integrates with our OrbitNote iOS app.

Various bug fixes and performance improvements. 7.15.0 Mar 31 Fixes a bug where prediction in the R&W keyboard app was not working for English locale languages. 7.14.1 Feb 26 We’ve updated the language and voice settings in R&W 7.14 so that users have access to a wider range of languages and voices in the app, as well as aligning setting selections across the editor and keyboard app, so now any language/voice you select in the editor app will be synced with the keyboard app and vice-versa. 7.14.0 Feb 2 Fixes a bug where activation for some MDMs was not working as expected. 7.13.2 12/15/2025 Fixes an issue where some users were getting stuck in a sign in loop when signing in with an email address.

Fixes a bug where some users could not access Google Drive from the Import menu. 7.13.1 12/09/2025 A Fresh Look & Better Predictions

We’ve updated the app to give you a cleaner workspace and more control over how you write.

New Dashboard We have completely redesigned the initial entry point. The new Dashboard is simpler, cleaner, and helps you get to your editor faster.

Enhanced Prediction Controls We have added powerful new settings to tailor the word prediction engine to your needs:

Vocabulary Levels: You can now adjust the complexity of word suggestions to match your writing style.

Suggestion Count: Control how many suggestions are shown by choosing to see anywhere from 3 to 10 suggestions at a time.

Text Size: improved accessibility with adjustable font sizes for word suggestions —make them as large as you need!

Also includes lots of bug fixes and improvements. 7.13.0 12/01/2025 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 7.12.1 11/06/2025 Added localisations for Danish, Norwegian (NB and NN) and Swedish.

Added external keyboard support to the R&W keyboard app.

Bug fixes. 7.12.0 11/03/2025 Adds a small improvement to the image loading of prediction suggestions in the Read&Write Keyboard.

The Show Images prediction setting is now OFF by default for new users. 7.11.7 10/01/2025 Fixes an issue where some keyboard features were incorrectly disabled for some users. 7.11.6 08/20/2025 Updated prediction engine — now using Co:Writer predictions for word suggestions

Enable academic Topics to get subject-specific suggestions, available in both the editor and keyboard

Translate single words directly from the keyboard. Choose your translation language in reading settings, select a word, tap the translate icon - see the translation and hear it read aloud.

Minor UI improvements — refreshed some icons in the editor and keyboard.

Smoother page navigation — tap the page number to jump to any page

Improved memory performance in the keyboard app

Fixed occasional blank prediction suggestions 7.11.5 07/23/2025 Fixes a bug in the Read&Write editor app where the changed voice was sometimes not being saved correctly. 7.10.3 05/19/2025 Update some text localizations. 7.10.2 05/12/2025 Adds pictures to the Read&Write Keyboard predictions. This can be toggled off/on in the keyboard settings.

Fixes an issue where Google Drive would only load the first 100 files for some users.

Reorders files in Google Drive by recents, instead of alphabetically.

Fixes a bug where slower voice speeds were not accurately changing the voice rate.

Adds various fixes and improvements to the keyboard spelling and grammar checks. 7.10.1 03/27/2025 Adds three new scanning features for text accessibility:

* Scan from camera - take a photo with the camera and insert the text from that photo in to your document.

* Scan from photo - select a photo from your photo library and insert the text from that photo in to your document.

* Scan from file - Select a file (inaccessible PDF, Word document), extract the text and insert it in to your document. 7.9.3 09/03/2024 Fixes a crash in the Read&Write Keyboard app that could occur when spellchecking sentences and text where there was some preceding white space present. 7.8.9 06/05/2024 Minor bug fixes. 7.8.8 05/13/2024 Fixed an issue where it was not possible to enter characters into the product code field on iPhone.

Fixed a bug where the spell check complete window would sometimes show multiple times when finishing spell check in the RW keyboard.

Improved the UI user flow when launching dictation from the RW keyboard app.

Changed spell check in the RW keyboard so it now starts from the beginning of the document instead of the caret location.

Fixed a bug where spell check in the RW keyboard could exit early when going through suggestions.

Fixed a bug in the RW keyboard where the dictionary window was not presenting the keyboard for text entry on subsequent lookups.

Fixed an issue where Save as Audio was not working using some voices.

Fixed bug where Speak letter names in the RW keyboard not working. 7.8.7 03/27/2024 Fixes a bug where the Speak As I Type setting was not always working as intended. 7.7.9 10/16/2023 Fixes a bug where some voices were not being made available for selection in the keyboard app.

Fixes a bug where some UI elements were not displaying correctly on smaller iPhone models. 7.7.8 09/25/2023