Orate vs Winnow

On-device text-to-speech for Mac. Select any text, press ⌥⌘L, and Orate reads it aloud in a natural voice, a private listening queue for macOS & OS X. $4.99, one-time.

Winnow scores every post in your X timeline as you scroll and highlights the few worth replying to. Local, deterministic, read-only.

About Orate

On-device text-to-speech for Mac. Select any text, press ⌥⌘L, and Orate reads it aloud in a natural voice, a private listening queue for macOS & OS X. $4.99, one-time. How it works From a highlight to a headphone moment. Orate lives in your menu bar and turns anything you're reading into something you can listen to. A calm library for everything you've saved, and a menu-bar home you can glance at without leaving what you're doing.

About Winnow

Winnow scores every post in your X timeline as you scroll and highlights the few worth replying to. Local, deterministic, read-only. Why this exists I was replying to the wrong posts. I used to reply to whatever showed up on the timeline, usually posts that were already ten replies deep, or three hours cold by the time I got to them. Same replies, just aimed at posts that were actually still open. The same reply is worth a great deal in the first fifteen minutes of a post with room left in it, and almost nothing on a post that already has forty replies and has finished being read.