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Set up Readio on your phone
Install Readio on iPhone or Android, answer ten short questions, pick a voice, and choose your plan.
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What you need
- An iPhone on iOS 16.4 or later, or an Android phone.
- An Amazon account with Kindle books.
Install
Get Readio from the App Store on iPhone, or from Google Play on Android.
First run
- Open Readio and tap Get started. If you have a Readio plan already, tap I already have an account and sign in: the app opens with no questions.
- Enter your name, then answer the questions about how you read. The counter at the top shows Step 1 of 10. Tap Continue after each one.
- Part way through, Readio asks about reminders. Tap Allow notifications or Maybe later.
- Pick the voice that reads to you: tap a voice to hear a line. Then choose a speed from 0.8× to 2×. You can change both later in any book, see Voices and speed.
- If a friend gave you a referral code, enter it. If not, tap Continue.
- On the plan screen, choose Yearly or Weekly and tap Start listening. The App Store or Google Play shows the price in your currency and takes the payment.
The flag button at the top of each screen changes the language of the app. See Change the app’s language.
Once you have reached the plan screen, the questions are not asked again: Get started takes you straight to it.
If the plan screen does not let you in
- “Getting the prices…” stays on screen while the store answers. Give it a moment on a working connection.
- “Plans are not available right now.” means the store sent no plans to sell. Start listening is off until it does. Close Readio, check your connection, and open it again. Restore still works on this screen.
- Restore does nothing when the store finds no Readio plan under the Apple Account or Google account on the phone. If you bought the plan on the web or on a phone of the other kind, close the plan screen and use I already have an account on the welcome screen.
- The X at the top closes the plan screen. It does not open the app.
For prices and how to cancel, see Subscribe, restore or cancel.
Next
Your library is empty until you connect Kindle. See Connect your Kindle library.
Questions
No. Continue lights up once you have answered. There are ten questions, and you answer them once. The voice, the speed and the referral code are optional: Continue works on those screens straight away.
On the phone, no. The app is free to download, and listening needs Readio Pro. In the Chrome extension, a free Readio account listens with your computer’s own voice.
No. Tap Maybe later and setup goes on. If you allow them, Readio sends one reminder at your listening time.
On the welcome screen, tap I already have an account and sign in to your Readio account. If you bought the plan with the same Apple Account or Google account, you can also tap Restore on the plan screen.