Beta via TestFlight
Erling reads textbooks and articles aloud and shows where you are in the text. It fixes the reading order in messy PDFs and explains hard terms and figures. Before a section you are told what it is about, and afterwards you get questions to answer in your own words.
For Mac, iPhone and iPad
Sentence by sentence, at the pace you want. Tap a sentence to jump there, hear the last one again, or skip a paragraph.
How it is structured and what to keep in mind before you begin. Never the conclusions in advance.
The text one step at a time: what to look for, the paragraph itself, a question, and the summary only once you have answered.
After a section you get a few questions. The reply points back into the text, and what you write becomes your notes.
Columns, footnotes, captions and reference lists end up where you would read them, not where the PDF happens to put them. The text can also be read as a calm page instead of a skewed scan, in the size and line spacing you want.
The voice is the system's own, in Swedish and English, as fast or slow as you like. If you would rather read it yourself, that works just as well. The explanations and the questions are still there.
Hard terms are underlined and explained with a tap: what they mean in general and what they mean in this particular text. Diagrams and pictures are described where the text first mentions them.
If the explanation is still too hard, Say It Plainer sits under it: the same thing again, in plainer words.
Say which date a text should be read by, and Erling suggests a manageable portion for today, and another tomorrow. No streaks to keep alive, no red numbers: just what is read and what is left.
Where you are in the text follows you between Mac, iPhone and iPad through iCloud. On iPhone, reading continues with the screen locked, so you can listen with the phone in your pocket.
For when you want to work through a text properly. The text is divided into steps of a paragraph, or a few that belong together. Each step begins with what to look for and which words are hard, then comes the paragraph, and then a question to answer in your own words. You get the summary only once you have answered.
It should be easier to understand the text, never easier to skip the thinking.
Beta
The app is handed out through TestFlight to classmates and friends. Most of it works, some of it doesn't yet, and in some texts something comes out wrong. Reading aloud works right away. The explanations and the questions go through a service that costs me money, so they need an invite, which you ask for in the app.
No. Erling is built with dyslexia and ADHD in mind, but works for anyone with a lot to read. The right reading order, the term explanations and the questions afterwards are just as useful if you would rather read it yourself.
Not in advance. Before a section you are told what it is about, but not the conclusions, and the summary is shown only once you have read. Erling helps you understand the text, not get out of reading it.
Nothing during the beta. The explanations and the questions go through a service that costs me money, so they need an invite, which you ask for in the app. Reading aloud works without one.
They stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. To fix the reading order and explain the terms, each page is sent once to a server I run, which forwards it to Anthropic. The server keeps no copy of the page. More on how your data is handled.
Mac, iPhone and iPad with macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. Where you are in the text syncs between them through iCloud.
Erling is in beta via TestFlight. Reading aloud works right away; the rest needs an invite, which you ask for in the app.
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For Mac, iPhone and iPad · macOS 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 · Swedish and English