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Hearby
Read any text aloud on your Mac, with an on-device voice
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.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Justin, and I built Hearby.
I read a lot of AI output, and I kept skimming long replies and missing the one line that mattered. Listening while I look at the code works better for me, but every read-aloud tool I tried either read the Markdown literally ("asterisk asterisk backtick") or sent my text to the cloud to make its voice.
Hearby does neither:
• The voice (Kokoro) runs on your Mac. Nothing you select is uploaded, and it works with Wi-Fi off.
• It cleans text up first: code blocks become "Code block: 40 lines of Swift", URLs and file paths are shortened, symbols are skipped.
• It works everywhere you can select text: Mail, Safari, PDFs, Slack, terminals, VS Code, Cursor.
It's open source (GPLv3), with no account and no subscription: a 7-day free trial with every feature, then $19 once.
I'd love to hear what you'd use it for, and what it reads badly. I'm here all day.
About Hearby on Product Hunt
“Read any text aloud on your Mac, with an on-device voice”
Hearby was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #139 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Hearby competes within Mac, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 697.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hearby performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hearby?
Hearby was hunted by Justin Brundage. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hearby including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Justin Brundage