Murmur reads any text on your Mac aloud with a single keystroke — pausing where the punctuation does, so it sounds like someone reading to you instead of a machine reciting.
Select any text in any app, then press your global hotkey. Murmur picks up the selection and starts reading immediately — no copy-pasting into a separate reader window, and no switching apps. Press the same key again to pause or resume.
Yes. Murmur synthesises speech entirely on your Mac using the system voices already installed on macOS. Nothing you select is uploaded, logged, or sent to a server, so it keeps working on a plane and never sees the text you read.
Anywhere macOS lets you select text: Safari and Chrome, Mail, Notes, Slack, Preview and most PDF viewers, Xcode, Word, and the rest. If you can highlight it, Murmur can read it aloud.
The built-in option reads in a flat monotone and ignores how a sentence is written. Murmur is punctuation-aware: it pauses at commas, stops properly at full stops, and takes a longer breath between paragraphs, so long articles sound like someone reading to you rather than a machine reciting words.
No. Murmur is a one-time purchase — you buy it once and keep it, with no monthly fee and no account to create. This is the main difference from subscription readers like Speechify or Natural Reader.
Murmur runs on macOS Sonoma 14 and later, on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs. It lives in the menu bar and uses effectively no resources while idle.
It is in active development now. Join the waitlist above and we will email you once when it is available — no newsletter, no other mail.
Murmur is made by Lunipod, alongside Pebu, Dosera, Bokera and Kafera.