Listen to your newsletters as one daily episode

Why read-aloud apps make the backlog worse

Apps that read newsletters aloud turn a reading backlog into a listening backlog: one audio file per newsletter, each one read start to finish. Subscribe to fifteen newsletters and you get fifteen files — greetings, sponsor blocks and 'forward this to a friend' included. And since listening is slower than skimming, the pile grows faster than you can clear it.

Read-later apps do that job well for single pieces: Matter markets a voice it describes as hard to distinguish from a human, and Readwise Reader turns articles, PDFs and ebooks into audio in dozens of languages. But they read, in full, things you already picked. When the problem is forty unread emails, a beautiful voice reading all forty is not the fix. Volume doesn't need a narrator; it needs an editor.

Text-to-speech vs. a spoken digest

Text-to-speech reads an existing text in full; a spoken digest is a new text — a short bulletin the AI writes from all your sources, which a natural voice then reads. The distinction sounds subtle and changes everything.

Proofite is the second thing: each morning it writes one briefing from your newsletters, RSS feeds and web searches, then reads it in a natural voice directed like a radio host — in English, Italian, Spanish, German or French. Side by side:

• TTS: one file per newsletter. Digest: every source in one episode.
• TTS: as long as the author wrote it. Digest: 2 to 20 minutes, you decide.
• TTS: prose written for a screen. Digest: a script written to be heard.
• TTS: the same for everyone. Digest: shaped by your feedback, topic by topic.

What goes into the morning episode

The episode is built from three kinds of sources — newsletters, RSS feeds and web searches — plus anything you save on the fly.

Coming from another reader? Import your subscriptions with an OPML file — Feedly, Inoreader, FreshRSS or NetNewsWire — with a preview of what gets in and your folders preserved.

• Newsletters: each inbox you create has its own dedicated email address (like [email protected]). Subscribe there and your personal inbox stays out of it.
• RSS feeds: paste a site's address and Proofite finds the feed on its own — no hunting for /feed URLs.
• Web searches: news or general queries that run on their own and bring results into the digest.
• Saved links: share a page from your phone and it has a guaranteed spot in the next morning's briefing.

One episode that learns, topic by topic

Every episode takes explicit feedback, and tomorrow's script changes because of it. Under each topic you can press 'More technical' or 'Simpler', follow it, mute it, ask for more or less depth or space. Every press updates a preference for that topic which is fed into the next digest's prompt — a deterministic mechanism, not a black-box feed.

You can also request a deep dive: name a subject, even one outside your sources, and the next briefing arrives with a dedicated section on it. Mute a noisy topic once and it stays out; follow one and it climbs. The learning is per topic, so making the AI more technical on security doesn't change how it treats design.

Hear the voice before you decide

The audio sample on this page is the product's real voice: 30 seconds, generated with the same TTS that reads the daily episodes. Press play and judge for yourself. Episodes open with a theme jingle, a short musical sting introduces the quick items — both auto-leveled to the day's voice — and the episode notes link every story back to its source.

Then listen wherever you already listen: in the Proofite apps for iOS and Android, with a push notification when the morning episode is ready, or in any podcast app by adding your private feed URL. On days you'd rather read, the same briefing is there as text — and you can have it emailed to you as an option.