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v26.826.0
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Turns PDFs and EPUBs into audiobooks you can read along with, on your own machine. Everything runs locally except the optional cloud voices.

Download pdf2audio-26.826.0-arm64.dmg below. Apple Silicon Macs only.

First time opening it

This build is not signed with an Apple certificate, so macOS will refuse it once.

  1. Open the DMG and drag pdf2audio to your Applications folder.
  2. Double-click it. macOS will say it cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
  3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway.
  4. Confirm Open.

If that button is not there, open Terminal and run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/pdf2audio.app

Then open the app normally. Both do the same thing — they tell macOS you trust a download it cannot verify for you.

You also need Docker

Your library lives in a database, and Docker is the free program that runs it. Install Docker Desktop or OrbStack, open it once, and leave it running. The app checks on first launch and links to both if it is missing.

First launch takes a while

About 2.4 GB, once — a Python environment, a voice model, and the database image. Later launches take seconds. The window shows each step as it goes, and says which one failed if one does.

Known limits

  • Updates cannot install themselves yet. The app notices a new version and downloads it, but macOS only lets signed apps replace themselves — so for now a new version means downloading the DMG again.
  • PDF/EPUB export and the Hacker News feed work from a source checkout but not in the packaged app yet.

Something broke? The app writes a crash.log next to its data and can open a prefilled issue for you — Help → Report a problem, or the Report this button if it fails to start.

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