Scriptorium
Live radio for classic books — on the web, iPhone, CarPlay, and Apple TV.
scriptorium.live ↗Any browser at scriptorium.live · iOS 17 or later (iPhone, CarPlay) · tvOS 17 or later (Apple TV 4K & HD) · free
Scriptorium is a living radio station for the world's great books. Tune a channel — Hearth, Shadows, Wonder, Nursery, or Vespers — and hear a narrated classic, always on and in sync with every other listener: the broadcast is computed from a shared schedule, so the website, the phone, the car, and the TV are all on the same second. On iPhone, open the Library to listen on demand and read along with a candlelit teleprompter that lights each word as it's spoken. On Apple TV, the station becomes an ambient reading room: a grid of channels showing what's airing over each book's cover, and a full-bleed now-playing screen with a quiet card naming the channel, chapter, author, and the provenance of text and narration. It also plays in any browser at scriptorium.live.
Features
- Five live channels — Hearth, Shadows, Wonder, Nursery, and Vespers, always airing
- In sync everywhere — web, iPhone, CarPlay, and Apple TV on the same second
- On-demand Library (iPhone) — any public-domain classic, resume where you left off
- Read along (iPhone) — a candlelit teleprompter lights each spoken word
- CarPlay — the station on the road, with now-playing and remote commands
- Apple TV — channel grid over cover art, full-bleed now playing with slow motion for books that have it
- Home Screen widget, sleep timer, plainly-stated intermissions and off-air hours
- No account, no ads — public-domain classics, freely narrated · scriptorium.live in any browser