In development · early access opening soon

Listen to anything.
Ask it everything.

Narra turns articles and PDFs into narrated audio — with an AI companion that knows exactly which paragraph you're on, answers without spoiling what's ahead, and jumps the narrator to its sources.

One question — what's in your reading backlog?
This decides what we build first.
You're on the list. We'll email you the moment early access opens — founding spots go to this list first, in order.
Free to join · Founding members lock 50% off for life · no spam, ever
Narrating · Marlowe ¶2 of 18 · 12:04 left
READING ¶2Oil does not care who burns it. Attention, by contrast, is given by someone — and what is given can be withdrawn.
READING ¶3Attention is not extracted; it is traded. Every minute spent with a product is a minute judged more valuable there than anywhere else.
Key points so far?
Up to where you've listened: attention is traded, not extracted — and unlike oil, it can be withdrawn ¶2 ▸
Take me back to that part
Answers cite paragraphs — tap a citation and the narrator jumps there
How it works

Your backlog becomes a conversation.

🔗

Paste anything

A link, a PDF, raw text. Narra strips the clutter and keeps the words — ready to play in seconds.

🔊

Listen, hands free

A natural voice reads while the text follows along, paragraph by paragraph. Close the tab, come back — it remembers your spot.

Ask as you go

Summaries, explanations, "wait — what did that mean?" The AI answers from the text itself, never ahead of where you've listened.

Why it's different

Readers read to you.
Chatbots talk at you.
Narra listens with you.

No spoilers, ever

Ask "key points so far?" and the answer stops exactly where you stopped. The ending of a paper, memo, or essay stays yours to reach — other AI tools blurt out the conclusion.

Citations that drive the narrator

Every answer names the paragraphs it came from. Tap one and playback jumps straight to that passage — hear the author's own words, not just the AI's summary.

Built for the desk, not just the commute

A real web app for the place serious reading actually happens. Keyboard shortcuts, a readable column, and the chat beside the text — not buried in a phone menu.

Your spot, remembered

Progress lives at the paragraph level. Leave mid-sentence on Tuesday, resume mid-thought on Thursday — reading position, chat history, and highlights intact.

Founding members

Early, honest, and half price forever.

Narra is being built right now. Joining the list costs nothing and commits you to nothing — it holds your place in line. When early access opens, the first invitations go to this list in order, and founding members keep their discount for as long as they subscribe.

We'd rather tell you plainly: there are no users to quote yet and no ratings to show. What we can show is the product taking shape — that demo above is the real interaction design.

Founding member price
$6$12/month · locked for life
  • Unlimited listening — articles, PDFs, pasted text
  • Unlimited asks — summaries, explanations, key points
  • Citations that jump the narrator
  • First vote on what we build next
Reserve my spot — free
No card required. Pricing is a plan, not a promise — founding members will confirm it before paying anything.
Questions

The fine print, up front.

When does early access open?

We're targeting the coming weeks, invited in waitlist order. Everyone on the list gets an email the day their invitation is ready — and we'll send at most one or two build updates before then.

What can I import?

Web articles by link, PDFs by upload, and any pasted text at launch. Newsletters-by-email and EPUBs are next on the roadmap — the waitlist survey literally decides the order.

How good are the voices?

Modern neural voices — natural pacing, no robot monotone — with adjustable speed. A premium tier with best-in-class voices is planned for founding members who want it.

Is my content private?

Your documents are yours. They're stored to power playback and chat for you alone, never shared, and never used to train AI models. Delete a document and its audio and chat history go with it.

What does joining the waitlist commit me to?

Nothing. It's an email address and, if you like, one survey answer. You can leave the list with one click, and no payment happens unless you choose to subscribe after trying it.

Your backlog isn't going to read itself.

Well — actually, now it is.

Founding spots go to the list first, in order.