GUTENVOX

Giving voice to the written word.

Explore public-domain classics, save them to your listening shelf, and let Gutenvox read them aloud with comfortable long-form narration. The printing press gave us the page. This gives the page a voice.

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What is Gutenvox?

Gutenvox is a reading app for public-domain books, built around long-form listening.

Search Project Gutenberg, add a classic to your Library, and pick up in Continue Listening whenever the page calls you back. The reader keeps the text quiet and the playback controls close, so the book stays the center of the room.

It's made for the long haul: not one paragraph, but whole chapters and entire novels read end to end.

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What's inside the app

The Gutenvox home screen is built around the path from discovery to listening.

Explore classics

Search Project Gutenberg by title, author, or classic and find public-domain books ready for your shelf.

Add to Gutenvox

Save EPUB or text editions locally, with download progress and metadata visible before a book joins your library.

Continue Listening

Return to recent books from the home screen, with progress shown as a proper listening shelf.

Quiet reader

Read EPUB or plain text with calm themes, adjustable type, and playback controls that stay out of the way.

Natural narration

Play, pause, and resume long-form narration with the Gutenvox equalizer showing when the voice is active.

Your library

Keep saved titles organized, track listening progress, and remove books when your shelf needs room.

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How it works

From public-domain discovery to playback in three moves.

EXPLORE

Search Project Gutenberg for a public-domain title, author, or classic.

SAVE

Add the book to Gutenvox so it appears in your Library and Continue Listening shelf.

PLAY

Open the reader, hit play, and let Gutenvox read the book aloud.

The story

Gutenvox started with a simple wish: to hear the books we love, not only read them. It takes its name — and its spirit — from Project Gutenberg and the open libraries of the public domain: tens of thousands of titles, free for anyone, waiting on the page.

The printing press handed those words to everyone. Gutenvox adds the one thing it never could — a voice. Today it turns classic books into narration for readers, students, commuters, and anyone who'd simply rather listen.

Old stories. New sound.

— THE GUTENVOX PROJECT