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macOS 11 or newer · Apple silicon and Intel · Instructions

Speaklit on your Mac.

How to download it, open it and use it. Read the steps, or watch the video.

Download for Mac
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    Download Speaklit

    Click Download for Mac. The file is called Speaklit-….dmg and it’s about 225 MB. If Safari asks whether to allow downloads from speaklit.ai, click Allow. One download works on every Mac from 2020 on (Apple silicon and Intel), running macOS 11 or newer.

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    Move it to Applications

    Open the file you downloaded (click it in your browser’s downloads, or find it in Downloads). A window opens: drag the Speaklit icon onto the Applications folder.

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    Open it the first time

    Double-click Speaklit in your Applications folder. The first time, your Mac stops it with “Speaklit” Not Opened (“Apple could not verify…”). There’s no Open button in that box, so you allow it in System Settings, once:

    1. Click Done.
    2. Open System Settings (Apple menu) → Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Security. Next to “Speaklit” was blocked to protect your Mac, click Open Anyway.
    3. A box asks Open “Speaklit”? Click Open Anyway again.
    4. Type your Mac password (the one you use to log in) and click OK. Speaklit opens.
    Speaklit Not Opened: Apple could not verify Speaklit, with Move to Trash and Done
    1. Click Done
    Privacy & Security: Speaklit was blocked to protect your Mac, with Open Anyway
    2. Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
    Open Speaklit? with Open Anyway
    3. Open Anyway again
    Your Mac asks for your password
    4. Your Mac password → OK

    Why? Apple asks app makers to send each version to Apple for checking. Speaklit hasn’t done that yet, so your Mac asks you to allow it yourself. You only do this once: after that Speaklit opens normally.

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    Create your free account

    Speaklit opens a welcome window. Click Get started, then make your account with your email (or click I already have an account).

    Then pick what you’ll use it for, choose your voice and your colors, and try it once. It takes about a minute. After that, Speaklit starts by itself when you log in to your Mac.

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    Use it on anything you read

    The Speaklit bar floats on top of your screen, over any website, PDF, document or app, even full-screen ones. Drag it by the ✥ handle to move it.

    RC

    Read. Copy some text (⌘+C), then click RC. Speaklit reads it out loud and highlights each word. Click the words to pause.

    EC

    Explain. Copy some hard text, then click EC and pick how it explains (short, simple, like I’m 5, quiz me…).

    ?

    Ask. Type a question in the box under the text, and Speaklit answers and reads the answer to you.

    ⚙

    Settings. Change your voice, speed, text size and colors.

    2×

    Faster. Hold the right side of the reader to listen at double speed. Let go to go back.

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    Shortcuts

    ⌃⌥RRead what you copied (Control + Option + R)
    ⌃⌥SRead what you highlighted (no need to copy)
    ⌃⌥PPause or keep reading
    ⌃⌥XStop

    The first time you use ⌃⌥S, your Mac asks to let Speaklit use Accessibility (so it can copy what you highlighted). Click Open System Settings and turn on Speaklit. Everything else works without it.

  7. ?

    If something isn’t right

    • “Speaklit is damaged and can’t be opened”: download it again from this page (the download didn’t finish), then follow step 3.
    • The bar is gone: click Speaklit in your Dock, or open it from Applications.
    • ⌃⌥S reads the clipboard instead: turn on Speaklit in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
    • Out of free uses: the free plan has 20 uses a day (5 of them AI). They come back tomorrow, or see plans.
    • Uninstall: quit Speaklit, then drag it from Applications to the Trash.
    • Still stuck? Email [email protected].