Kura shows any article one line at a time — the rest of the page stays faded until you get there — and, when you want, a natural voice made on your iPhone reads it to you, lighting every word as it says it.
Live from the reader — the voice walking a piece, word by word.
A long read fails at the moment you see the whole wall of it. Kura never shows the wall. The line you're on is dark; the rest of the page stays faded below, present but quiet. Tap, and the next line arrives. That's the entire deal — and twenty minutes later the essay is somehow behind you. Momentum does the work discipline was failing to do.
Kura's voice is a natural, AI-generated English voice, made entirely on your iPhone, line by line, as you listen. Every word lights as it's said, like a finger under the line. Speed it up and it still sounds like a person. Kura reads while it's open, and carries on from the same line when you come back. There is no server doing the reading — which is why it works in airplane mode, why it costs nothing per hour, and why what you read stays on your phone.
Drop in a link, share a page from Safari, paste the text (out of a PDF, an email, anywhere), or photograph a printed page and let the scan come out clean. Widgets hold your place, and any line can be shared as a card or a short looping vertical video. The pieces wait in a quiet stack with honest time-left labels — no badge counts, no guilt mechanics, no streaks. A reading app should feel like a shelf, not a to-do list.
Come back days later and your place is kept — and on a long piece a short "So far" catch-up, written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence, reminds you what you'd read. It reads like a friend reminding you where you were, not an abstract. (Apple Intelligence needs an iPhone 15 Pro or later on iOS 26.) Re-entry stops costing more than the reading.
Hold a dense line and see it said plainer — the author's line stays put, the plainer one appears beneath, written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence. Pro also unlocks the voice on every article, notes on highlights, a second voice, larger widgets, and Markdown export. One purchase, no subscription, nothing expires. Everything in Pro is yours for good.
This isn't a policy promise that could change — it's how the app is built. There is no server to send anything to.
For everyone with a graveyard of open tabs and every intention of reading them.
Coming soon to the App Store