Runs on-device · Private · Offline

Your documents, as a podcast

Tider rewrites PDFs, articles, and your own documents into listenable, podcast-style audio — generated entirely on your Mac or iPhone. Private, offline, and free.

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Q2 Strategy Review.pdf
Two-person podcast · generated on-device

Why Tider

Not another read-aloud tool

Tider doesn't just read your text. It writes, produces, and delivers a tailored audio experience — all on your own machine.

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Runs entirely on your Mac Local-first

The language and voice models download once, then generate audio fully on-device. No servers, no per-use fees, no metering — and it works offline.

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Private by default Local-first

Your documents and the audio Tider generates never leave your machine. Nothing is uploaded to be processed by anyone.

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Custom narrator persona Unique to Tider

Tell Tider to sound like a BBC journalist, a YC partner, or a friendly senior engineer. Every episode is shaped to a voice you actually want to listen to — not a generic robot.

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Two-person podcast from any doc Unique to Tider

Pick host and guest, format, and style. Tider rewrites any document into a natural back-and-forth conversation — like having your notes explained to you by a podcast.

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Custom audio sources Built-in

Subscribe to any RSS feed or URL. Tider crawls, extracts, and queues fresh articles as audio — so your commute is always filled with what's actually new in your field.

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Also on iPhone iOS + Mac

The iPhone app generates on-device too — a full pocket studio, not a remote control. Optional Pro cloud sync keeps your saved plans in step across Mac and iPhone.

Nothing leaves your Mac

The AI runs locally. Your documents, your scripts, and the audio Tider produces stay on your device — not on our servers. The only thing you send us is an email, and only if you choose Pro cloud sync.

Your feed, your rules

Subscribe to sources.
No algorithm decides for you.

Pick the blogs, newsletters, and RSS feeds you actually trust. Tider turns every new article into audio — automatically, in your chosen persona, on your schedule.

Hacker News Top Built-in
Top community-voted tech stories
via HN API
The Pragmatic Engineer Substack
Deep dives on engineering by Gergely Orosz
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/feed
TLDR Tech RSS
Daily digest of tech, science, and programming
tldr.tech/rss/tech
The Changelog RSS
Open source, developer culture
changelog.com/feed
17+ sources across 5 categories — more added regularly
🟠 Hacker News · 2 min ago New
The Architecture Behind SQLite's 35-Year Longevity
Generating on-device…
Your queue right now
12episodes
From sources you chose.
Zero surprise content.
Bring your own RSS feed. Paste any feed URL — newsletters, niche blogs, research aggregators — and Tider crawls, classifies, and converts them into on-device audio automatically.
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How it works

Three steps to your first episode

01
Add a source
Drop a PDF or DOCX, paste a URL, or subscribe to a feed. Tider extracts and understands the content locally.
02
Direct it
Choose narrator persona, audience, pacing, and format — single narrator or two-person podcast. Or skip it; smart defaults work great.
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Press play
Tider generates a rich audio episode on your Mac — no upload, no wait for a server. Listen offline, anywhere.

Personas

One document. Any voice you can describe.

Pick a preset or describe your own. A deep-voiced analyst walking through strategy sounds nothing like a warm narrator doing a solo deep-dive — and both are generated on-device.

BBC Journalist
YC Partner
Friendly Engineer
Warm Narrator
Lecture Hall
Late-night Host
Skeptical Analyst
Curious Student

Start listening today

Free and unlimited. No account, no credit card. On macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Linux, and iPhone.

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