Now in beta · iPhone & iPad
Buy a book, read it, have it read aloud, and talk it over with friends — in one app instead of four. Mimir is free, with no subscription and no ads: you only pay for the books you buy, and they’re yours to keep.
Why Mimir
Today a book you love lives in one app to buy it, another to read it, a third to listen and a fourth to talk about it — and you often pay for it more than once. Mimir is all four, built as one thing.
Mimir’s own editions come as paperback and ebook for one price. Publishers’ books cost less when you take print and ebook together.
The voice runs on your phone, so narration costs nothing to make — and nothing to you. No audiobook to buy a second time.
No subscription, no ads, no selling your data. Mimir earns money one way: when you buy a book.
Your library
Import DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW and AZW3 files from Files or any app’s “Open in Mimir” — or start with one of thousands of Mimir Editions. Mimir finds the cover and keeps three shelves in order: reading, read, and next.
Meditations
The Odyssey
Pride & Prejudice
Frankenstein
Moby-Dickor, The Whale
The Great Gatsby
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
Walden
Dracula
Little Women
Moby-Dick
Listen
Tap “read to me” on any book — bought from Mimir or brought from elsewhere — and a natural voice reads it, free. The voices run on your phone: nothing is streamed, so it reads on a plane, in a tunnel, or with the radio off.
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The spoken word lights up and the rest of the page steps back, so your eyes never lose the voice. Tap any word to move the reading there — try it on the page.
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Thirty-seven voices across English (US and UK), Español, Français, Italiano and Português. Audition a few, pick one per book, and Mimir remembers it.
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Generate a chapter or the whole book ahead of time, right on the device, and watch each sentence as it’s made. Saved passages keep their audio too.
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The narration carries on across chapters with the screen locked, and answers the lock-screen and headphone controls like any audiobook.
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see? Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.
Read
Real pages you turn with a fold under your finger — two at a time on iPad — in the book’s own typography. Everything you need sits one touch from the text.
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The corner follows your finger and the page bends at the gutter on iPad. Tune the paper itself — grain, warmth and fade — or read on dark paper at night.
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Mark a line and write what you thought — or press the microphone and say it. Every passage opens back to the exact sentence, so years later you can still hear what it meant to you. Keep it private, or publish it to your profile.
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Select a passage to save it in one of six colours, as a fill, an underline or a dash. Copy it, share it, or ask about it from the same small menu.
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Download a dictionary once and look words up offline in seven languages, or translate on device with Apple’s translation. Every word you look up collects in What you’ve learned, ready to practise.
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Ask who someone is, what a theme means, or what was happening in 1851. It knows where you are in the book and steers clear of what comes next. Bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google — it stays on your device.
Reading together
Select a passage and Mimir sets it as a card, coloured from the book’s own cover. Send it to a friend or a club inside Mimir, post it to X, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or TikTok, or hand it to any app that takes images. Every link opens on a page with the passage — and straight to the page in Mimir.
Moby-Dick
It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
— Herman Melville
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“It is a way I have of driving off the spleen…”
made with mimirLena Ortiz shared a passage from Moby-Dick
Open in Mimir · Herman Melville
Tap it and the passage opens in Mimir — on the very page if the book is on your shelf, or on the book’s community page if it isn’t.
Moby-Dick
It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
— Herman Melville
Frankenstein
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
— Mary Shelley
Pride & Prejudice
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
— Jane Austen
Walden
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
Middlemarch
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
— George Eliot
Mimir’s own community is the short way: no accounts to link, no tile to choose. For everywhere else, pick the app — Mimir makes the tile in that app’s shape, writes the caption, and opens it ready to post.
1tap · On Mimir
The passage lands where your people already are, without leaving the page. A club post stays sealed behind its spoiler checkpoint.
3taps · Share to
Opens X with your words and a card that leads back to the passage.
Your people
An optional social side, built into the app. Follow readers whose shelves you trust, trade passages, and read together in book clubs that never spoil an ending.
Checkpoints keep each part’s discussion sealed until you reach it. Mimir tells you if you’re on pace — or twelve percent behind.
Send a quote card to a friend, or talk it through in your club’s own chat.
People choose who sees their shelves. Follow, wait for a yes, then read along.
A profile is what you read: books with progress, a top ten, ratings, quotes, and the notes you chose to publish.
The bookshop Opening soon
Mimir has a bookshop built in. Mimir’s own editions of the classics come whole: the paperback ships to your door and the ebook is on your shelf the minute you order. Publishers’ books come in print, as an ebook, or both together for less. And whatever you buy, Mimir reads it aloud at no extra cost.
The ebook is ready to read, or to listen to, while the printed copy is in the post.
One price for both on Mimir Editions. On publishers’ books, both together cost less than apart.
Every book you buy, or bring, can be read aloud. No audiobook to buy again, no credits, no subscription.
Spot a book on a friend’s shelf or in your club’s next pick, add it to your cart, and it’s yours.
One order, every format
Jane EyreMimir Edition · Charlotte Brontë
$14.99EbookOn your shelf now — read or listen
ReadyNarrationBuilt in — read aloud on your phone
IncludedPrinted bookOn its way to your door
Mimir Editions
Mimir Editions open with thousands of classics, and each New Year’s Day adds the year of books entering the US public domain — on 1 January 2027, books from 1931. Every one comes as the ebook straight away, a paperback printed when you order it, and narration tuned by hand so names and places are said right. No copy protection, ever.
And the quiet details
Every word you look up is kept with the book it came from — then turned into a quick matching game.
At the end of a chapter Mimir offers a line for what you’ll remember. It lives on a page after the chapter.
Leaving mid-page? Tap the word you stopped on and Mimir opens right there next time.
Mimir Editions open with thousands of classics, each ready to read and to listen to the moment it’s yours.
The whole app speaks English, Español, Français, हिन्दी, Italiano, 日本語, Português and 中文.
Sign in with Apple and books, progress, highlights, notes and voice memos follow you through your own private iCloud.
Our promises
Mimir is being built as a cooperative: the readers, authors and narrators who use it will be its members, one vote each. These are rules they can hold us to.
Questions
Yes. The app, narration and the community are free, with no subscription and no ads. Mimir makes money one way: when you buy a book in its bookshop.
A classic Mimir publishes itself — thousands of them at launch. You get the ebook straight away and a paperback printed when you order it, for one price, with narration tuned for that text and no copy protection.
Join the waitlist. We invite people through Apple’s TestFlight in small batches, and you’ll get one email with your invitation and a code for the community.
Yes — any DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW or AZW3 file, from public-domain libraries, publishers that sell without DRM, or your own conversions, and Mimir reads them aloud too. Books locked to another store’s app can’t be opened.
No. The voices ship inside the app and run on your iPhone or iPad, so narration works in airplane mode. The internet is only used for things you ask for, like syncing or the community.
Not to read, listen, highlight or take notes. Sign in with Apple if you want iCloud sync; the community needs an invite code while it’s in beta.
It’s optional and bring-your-own-key: add an Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key in Settings, and Mimir talks to that provider directly from your device. Nothing goes through a Mimir server.
iPhone and iPad come first. Mimir is built to run on more platforms, and the waitlist is how you’ll hear about them.
The beta opens in small batches. Leave your email and we’ll send one invitation when it’s your turn.