Lettercast
A newsletter reader for Gmail

Your newsletters,
as a morning edition.

Lettercast gathers the newsletters scattered across your inbox into one daily edition. Listen on your commute like the radio, or skim the summaries when you're busy.

Coming soon to the App Store See how it works ↓

iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free

Lettercast screen: 4 today

You keep subscribing.
How many did you actually read?

Buried in the Promotions tab, saved for later, then marked all as read. Lettercast makes your newsletters worth opening again.

Gathered

Only your subscriptions, in one edition per day

Listened to

Played in order, like the radio, when your hands are busy

Summarized

A one-line summary and key points when you're short on time

The easiest way to get through
a day of newsletters

Today's edition

A fresh paper every morning

See how many newsletters arrived today and how long they take to read or to listen to. Finish them all and the edition is done.

  • Finds the newsletters you subscribe to when you connect
  • Collects only the publishers you check — personal mail is left alone
  • Read, save, or hide with a swipe
Lettercast screen: Today's edition
Summaries

Start with the summary

Open a newsletter and see a one-line summary and key points first, with to-dos and important links pulled out.

  • Made on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence
  • Today's Briefing: every newsletter from today, summarized
  • Shows how much time the summary saved you
Lettercast screen: Summaries
Listen

Your commute, like the radio

One tap reads today's newsletters aloud, in order. It keeps going with the screen off or in other apps.

  • Pause, skip 15 seconds, or jump to the next from the Lock Screen
  • 0.75× to 2× speed, and pick up where you left off
  • In reader mode, follow the sentence being read
Lettercast screen: Listen
Reader mode

Just the words

Strip away cluttered email layouts and read the text in a clean font and comfortable spacing — or switch back to the original anytime.

  • Adjust text size and line spacing
  • Highlight sentences and add notes
  • Tracking pixels that report opens are blocked by default
Lettercast screen: Reader mode
Publishers

Tidy up your subscriptions

See how much you get and how much you read from each publisher. Lettercast points out the ones you've stopped reading, and you can unsubscribe right in the app.

  • New subscriptions are flagged as new publishers
  • Exclude mail that isn't a newsletter
  • Supports one-click unsubscribe
Lettercast screen: Publishers
Archive

The lines you loved, kept

Highlights, notes, and saved newsletters live in your Archive, so the best sentences from past issues are easy to find again.

  • Tap a highlight to jump back to where it was
  • Save newsletters you want to reread
  • Restore hidden newsletters anytime
Lettercast screen: Archive

A day with Lettercast

8:10

On the subway

Tap play on today's edition and put in your earbuds. The newsletters play one after another.

12:40

After lunch

Skim the rest with Today's Briefing. Three minutes is enough.

21:30

Before bed

Read one favorite slowly in reader mode, highlighting the lines you like.

Privacy

Your mail never leaves
this iPhone

Lettercast has no servers. Mail comes from Google straight to your iPhone, and storage, summaries, and speech all happen on device.

No servers

Not even the developer can see your mail. No ads, analytics, or trackers.

On-device AI

Summaries use Apple Intelligence and listening uses iPhone voices. Your mail is never sent to an outside AI.

Read-only access

Gmail is connected read-only. Extra access is requested only if you turn on label organizing, and mail is never deleted or sent.

Up and running in a minute

Connect Gmail

Sign in with Google and allow read access to your mail.

Confirm subscriptions

Review the newsletters found in recent mail and check the ones to collect.

Today's edition

From now on, new newsletters arrive as today's edition.

Lettercast

Get your first edition tomorrow morning

Lettercast is getting ready for the App Store.

Requires an iPhone with iOS 18 or later and a Gmail account. Summaries are available on iPhone models that support Apple Intelligence, with iOS 26 or later. Gmail is a trademark of Google LLC. Lettercast is not affiliated with Google. Newsletters shown are fictional examples.