Research worth
listening to.
Behind all the jargon, every paper is someone saying: look what we found, isn't it fascinating? Aboot gets you to that wonder - in journal articles, scientific studies, sixty-page reports - read to you in five to seven minutes of plain, spoken English. Wherever you are, whatever your hands are busy with. No fake podcast banter, no robot droning through a PDF - just good-sounding, straight to the point summaries of anything you want to know more about.
The good stuff is buried.
Three million papers get published a year. The one that would make your week is in there somewhere - in a field you never studied, in a journal you would never open. Aboot’s library runs on other people’s curiosity: star catalogues, moon water, what play means to a cat. Wander it like a record shop.
From jargon to spoken English.
Dense reading is rarely hard because the ideas are hard - it’s the hundred pages of hedged prose they arrive in. A journal article, a working paper, a regulator’s annual report: Aboot reads the whole thing, caveats and all, and retells it the way a good colleague would over coffee - what they did, what they found, what is still shaky. The source stays one tap away.
Don’t stop when you go.
A summary on the commute, another at the gym, one more while the pasta boils. Downloads work offline, your spot follows you between devices, and the pile that has been chasing you since spring finally falls behind. Make room for a little more curiosity.
How it works
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Upload or browse
Bring a document of your own - a preprint, a thesis chapter, an annual report, anything PDF-shaped - or pull something promising from the library.
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It gets processed
Aboot reads the whole thing, keeps the argument intact, and writes narration worth hearing. About a minute of waiting.
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Listen, playlist, share
Play it now or offline later, five to seven minutes a listen. Build playlists around a topic, and share the good ones for the next curious person to find.
Pricing plans
Free
€0
The whole library, plus three uploads of your own to prove it works.
- The full Discover library
- 50 summary plays for the life of your account
- Unlimited podcast listening
- Offline downloads
- 3 summaries of your own documents, ever
- Public playlists
- Private and invite-only playlists
Go
€3.99 per month
Three of your own a month, and playlists you can share with anyone.
- The full Discover library
- 200 summary plays per month
- Unlimited podcast listening
- Offline downloads
- 3 summaries of your own documents per month
- Public playlists
- Private and invite-only playlists
Best value
Plus
€9.99 per month
Fifteen a month, with shelves you can keep private or share by invite.
- The full Discover library
- Unlimited summary and podcast listening
- Offline downloads
- 15 summaries of your own documents per month
- Public playlists
- Private and invite-only playlists
Prices in euro, including VAT where it applies. Subscriptions are billed through the App Store or Google Play and renew for your selected monthly or annual period until you cancel in your store account. See subscription terms for annual prices and allowance details.
