Timber ✶

The accessibility work

Made to be read
by everyone.

Timber began as an accessibility tool — a teacher trying to help students who found reading hard. So reading-first features are not a settings-screen afterthought. They are the point, and they are free.

Built in, system-wide

It works with the accessibility tools you already use.

Timber respects the settings you have already set once in iOS — and goes further with reading tools built for people who find text hard.

VoiceOver throughout
Hundreds of spoken labels so every control announces itself and the whole app is navigable by ear.
Dynamic Type
Reading surfaces scale with your system text size, right up to the largest accessibility sizes.
Reduced Motion
Switch off motion in iOS and Timber’s animations stand down to simple fades.
High Contrast
Turn on Increase Contrast in iOS and Timber answers with bolder, higher-contrast colours.
Light & dark
Follows your system appearance, and offers warm reading palettes for long sittings.
Listen, don’t squint
At its core Timber reads aloud — the oldest accessibility tool there is, with word-by-word highlighting so you can follow along.

Dyslexia mode

Five changes that make text easier to track.

Turn it on in one tap. Each piece is grounded in how dyslexic readers actually read — and you can keep any of them on without the others.

01

A dyslexia-friendly typeface

OpenDyslexic, weighted at the bottom so letters are harder to flip, mirror, or swap.

02

Bold letter anchors

The first letter of every word is bolded, giving the eye a fixed point to land on. Works across Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian scripts.

03

Looser letter spacing

A little more air between letters so they stop crowding into each other.

04

Looser line spacing

More room between lines makes it easier to keep your place down the page.

05

A calming amber tint

An optional warm overlay, around 590 nanometres, that softens the harsh glare some readers get from black text on a bright white page.

Preview · letter anchors + amber tint

When you turn on dyslexia mode, the first letter of each word stands out, the lines breathe, and a warm tint takes the edge off the page.

Accessible by default

None of this sits behind a paywall.

No account. No required subscription. The full dyslexia mode, VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type and the read-aloud reader are all free, and stay useful without ever paying. Accessibility that costs extra isn’t accessibility — so the parts that help people read are the parts we keep open.

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