LuceVoce

Install LuceVoce and set it up

What LuceVoce needs on Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad, how to install it or use the portable copy, and what the welcome guide asks the first time.

Windows
Yes
Mac
Partly
iPad
Partly
iPhone
Partly
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Install LuceVoce, open it, and a short welcome guide asks which languages you read and which voice you like, and offers the natural voices. A few minutes later you can add your first book and listen.

Check what you need

  • Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
  • Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 13.3 or later.
  • iPhone or iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. It is the same app on both.

Leave room for about 160 MB for the app, plus the natural voices if you download them (about 410 MB on Mac, iPhone and iPad, about 340 MB on Windows), plus your books.

Install LuceVoce

Windows

LuceVoce comes in two forms: an installer and a portable copy.

To use the installer:

  1. Run LuceVoce-Setup followed by the version number.
  2. Choose the options you want:
    • Offer LuceVoce in "Open with" and add "Read aloud with LuceVoce" for your book and document files (on by default).
    • Start LuceVoce with Windows (off by default).
    • Create a desktop shortcut (off by default).
  3. Finish the installer and start LuceVoce from the Start menu.

The installer needs no administrator password: LuceVoce is installed for your Windows user only. Your library, voices and settings are kept in the LuceVoce folders under %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA%.

To use the portable copy:

  1. Unzip the portable zip into any folder, for example on a USB stick.
  2. Open the folder and run LuceVoce.exe.

The portable copy keeps its settings and library in a user folder next to the program, so you can carry it from one PC to another. Settings > About says "Portable copy" or "Installed for this user", so you can always tell which one you are running.

Mac

Install LuceVoce as you would any other app, and open it. Your library, voices and settings are kept in ~/Library/Application Support/LuceVoce.

The portable copy is Windows only.

iPhone and iPad

Install LuceVoce as you would any other app. The same app runs on the iPhone and the iPad.

Go through the welcome guide

The first time LuceVoce opens, a short guide walks you through a few steps. Use Next to move on and Back to return.

The guide's first page also has Language of LuceVoce, with English and Français (French as written in Quebec). LuceVoce starts in your device's language; choosing the other one shows the guide again in it. You can change it later in Settings > Reading > Language of LuceVoce. On a computer, the globe in the left-hand menu, just above Settings, changes it too. Each book is still read in its own language.

  1. Which languages do you read?: tick every language you read. LuceVoce picks a voice for each book by its language.
  2. Choose a voice: listen to a few voices with their preview button and pick the one you like. The natural voices are marked needs the Kokoro download: that comes in the next step.
  3. Download the natural voices: one button, with the size shown. It is a one-time download, and the voices then work offline. You can skip it and do it later.
  4. Add your first document: pick files, or drop them on the window, then choose Start reading.

To leave the guide at any time, choose Skip setup. If you open a book before you finish, the guide closes and keeps the choices you made.

You can start reading straight away: until the natural voices are downloaded, your device's own voices read for you. See Get the natural voices (Kokoro).

Run the guide again

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Go to About.
  3. Choose Run setup again.

Remove LuceVoce

Windows

Uninstall LuceVoce from Windows Settings like any other app. The uninstaller asks whether to also delete the library, the downloaded voices and the settings. Answer No to keep them for a later install.

Mac

Move LuceVoce to the Trash. Your library and settings stay in ~/Library/Application Support/LuceVoce until you delete that folder.

iPhone and iPad

Delete the app as you would any other. Your library, voices and settings on that device go with it.

Good to know

  • There is no account to create and nothing to sign up for.
  • Nothing you read is sent anywhere: the voices run on your device.
  • You can change your voices at any time in Settings > Voice, or run the guide again to pick your languages again.

Related

  • Get the natural voices (Kokoro)Why the natural Kokoro voices are worth the one-time download, how big it is on each device, which languages they read and where to start it.
  • Add your first bookHow to add books, documents and audiobooks to your LuceVoce library with the Add button, drag and drop, or by opening a file from another app.
  • Differences between Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPadLuceVoce is the same app on every device. This page lists the few things that work differently on Windows, the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad.
  • Choose a voiceHow to pick the voice for a book, listen before you choose, set a voice for each language, and have passages in another language read by their own voice.

Last updated 13 November 2026