Read&Write Mac

Version 7.5.7

September 2025

• ElevenLabs AI voices.
• Go to Settings > Speech and select Show more voices in the voice dropdown list.
• You can now sort and search the available voices for your license.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 7.4.19

June 2025

• New Talk&Type button allowing you to dictate your text into where you're working.
• New Voice Note button enabling you to record voice notes as you work.
• New workplace version dedicated to our workplace users.
• To make Read&Write more secure, we've removed the use of web sockets for inter-application communication. We now use native messaging instead.
• Note: Please restart Chrome and/or Safari after updating.
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed a bug where occasionally logging in would loop back to the start.
• Removed the popup window which was shown while users signed in as this caused some confusion.
• Fixed Read&Write freezing when using Play in the latest Microsoft Teams desktop application.

Version 7.3.16

February 2025

• Bug fixes:
• Fixed screen masking not working if the colour selected was grey or black.
• Fixed the Vocabulary List not finding definitions for a lot of words.

Version 7.3.14

December 2024

• Bug fix:
• Fixed Screenshot Reader's mispronunciation of curly quotation marks, apostrophes and em-dashes.

Version 7.3.10

November 2024

• Read&Write now uses Texthelp's latest login mechanism.
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed prediction not working in the last column of a table in Word.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Version 7.2.20

June 2024

• Texthelp PDF Reader is now a universal app, running natively on both Intel and Apple M chips.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed PDF Reader not loading on Intel Macs running macOS 14.
  • Fixed a bug where if CheckIt was used in another app while Microsoft Word was running, Word would always take precedence.
  • Fixed a bug where the screen masking mouse spotlight didn't follow the mouse pointer correctly on macOS 13 and earlier.

Version 7.2.18

14th May 2024

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a crash on Intel Macs when using OCR.
  • Fixed a crash when using the status bar icon menu when the toolbar wasn't showing.
  • Fixed CheckIt showing a correction when the cursor was no longer in the word, causing the correction to insert itself in the word, rather than replace it.

Version 7.2.16

3rd May 2024

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where PDF reading would not highlight word by word.
  • Fixed an issue where the speech window would show the loading message for offline voices.

Version 7.2.14

30th April 2024

• Range of online voices now available
• Text-to-speech voices are now set inside of Read&Write instead of in Apple Settings
• Universal app build (for both Intel and Apple M1/M2/M3 Macbooks)
• Dark mode compatible
• Updated ABBYY OCR framework to 12.5
• Bug fixes

Version 7.1.6

November 2022

• Compatibility with macOS Ventura

Version 7.1.5

December 2020

• Safari Extension bug fix

Version 7.1.4

October 2020

• Compatibility with macOS Big Sur
• Bug fixes

Version 7.1.3

October 2019

• Compatibility with macOS Catalina
• Improvements to the scanning feature
• Improved Microsoft Word integration
• Bug fixes

Version 7.1.2

October 2019

• Introducing a new improved PDF Reader
• Bug fixes including improved highlighting with all voices

Version 7.1.0

September 2018

• Mojave compatibility along with new feature Check It
• Check It is a new proofreading feature that checks for spelling, grammar, homophone and confusable word errors in your documents.

Version 7.0.2

October 2017

• High Sierra compatibility specifically PDF Reading and security improvements

Version 7.0.1

June 2017

• Several bug fixes and improvements including PDF background highlighting

Version 7.0.0

April 2017

• Initial Release of version 7

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