Save articles for later and listen to them with high-quality AI narration. Use your voice while listening to ask questions, take notes, or highlight important points.
Really excited to launch Katalog on Product Hunt today! Thank you so much @fmerian for hunting!
I've been an active Pocket user for a while now, but I have always felt their text-to-speech quality is average at best. The default voice sounds robotic, and the narration skips important pieces from the article. A few months ago, Mozilla officially killed Pocket, which forced me to start looking for alternatives. I specifically wanted to listen to the articles I saved, a complete hands-off reading experience.
Most read-it-later apps out there would simply narrate the text exactly as it's written. But written text usually contains so much implicit context that's not being communicated by plain narration. I'm not even talking about images or videos. Things like headline structure or list items would be impossible to "hear" in most read-it-later apps.
Since I couldn't find anything on the market, I built Katalog – a read-it-later app for audio listeners. Currently, you can:
✻Save any article from the web by pasting the link or using a Chrome extension. The saved article will be optimized for listening, featuring auto-generated image captions and other enhancements.
✻Generate an AI audio narration that you can listen to on the web app.
✻Use your voice to ask questions and take notes while listening. Think of it as an audio-first version of the typical highlights found in most read-it-later apps.
It's free to use while in public beta. You can save an unlimited number of articles, and generate 5 audio narrations per month. I'm happy to increase the limit for you if you reach out with some feedback 🙂
Let me know what you think, would really appreciate your thoughts! 🙏
Hey everyone! 👋
Really excited to launch Katalog on Product Hunt today! Thank you so much @fmerian for hunting!
I've been an active Pocket user for a while now, but I have always felt their text-to-speech quality is average at best. The default voice sounds robotic, and the narration skips important pieces from the article. A few months ago, Mozilla officially killed Pocket, which forced me to start looking for alternatives. I specifically wanted to listen to the articles I saved, a complete hands-off reading experience.
Most read-it-later apps out there would simply narrate the text exactly as it's written. But written text usually contains so much implicit context that's not being communicated by plain narration. I'm not even talking about images or videos. Things like headline structure or list items would be impossible to "hear" in most read-it-later apps.
Since I couldn't find anything on the market, I built Katalog – a read-it-later app for audio listeners. Currently, you can:
✻ Save any article from the web by pasting the link or using a Chrome extension. The saved article will be optimized for listening, featuring auto-generated image captions and other enhancements.
✻ Generate an AI audio narration that you can listen to on the web app.
✻ Use your voice to ask questions and take notes while listening. Think of it as an audio-first version of the typical highlights found in most read-it-later apps.
It's free to use while in public beta. You can save an unlimited number of articles, and generate 5 audio narrations per month. I'm happy to increase the limit for you if you reach out with some feedback 🙂
Let me know what you think, would really appreciate your thoughts! 🙏