Stop
studying
your classes
in silence.

Filmina explains your class PDFs out loud: studying at home feels like being back in the lecture, minus the professor's anecdotes.

Filmina for Windows

Not here yet: Filmina runs on Mac. Leave your email and I'll tell you the day there's a Windows build.

Slides don't
explain themselves.

A ninety-slide deck doesn't get studied: it gets abandoned around slide twenty. In class it made sense because someone was explaining it; alone, with the same slide in front of you, it doesn't.

Runs on your Mac, so the PDF never gets uploaded anywhere
It points at what it's explaining while it explains it, on the slide
Three levels of detail: summary, full and extended

You study faster
and remember more.

Reading in silence you skip half a paragraph without noticing and have to read it again. Listening to the lecture while you look at it, the session moves on its own: you finish sooner, and the next day you remember what you heard.

It all happens on your Mac.
Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

No cloud

The model that explains and the voice that speaks both run on your processor. Nobody on the other side sees your notes, because there is no other side.

No account

You download it and open it. No sign-up, no verification email, nothing to recover when you forget the password.

No monthly fee

Since there is no server to keep running, there is nothing to charge you for every month. Filmina is paid for once.

Filmina is with you before, during and after studying.

You start out knowing where you will get stuck

You set it to summary and hear the whole document in 19 minutes instead of 58, with the three hard ones already marked.

The frame tells you what is being explained

On full, the frame follows the voice: half an hour later you are still there, not on your phone. And when it ends, it asks.

You pick up at 41, same voice, same level

You open the document the night before and it picks up where you left it. The one you never understood you put on extended.

It is not a text-to-speech reader

It explains, it doesn't read

The slide is split into segments of one or two ideas, and then it is verified in code that not a single block of text was left unexplained. Coverage doesn't depend on the model behaving: it is checked.

It frames, it doesn't cover

The frame surrounds the section it is talking about and slides to the next one. No fill, no veil: any layer over the page, however soft, gets in the way exactly where you need to read.

Maths, in words

P(A|B) is said «P of A given B», not «p bracket a bar b». The notation is translated before it reaches the voice, which is where text-to-speech readers fall apart.

No presenter filler

The preamble and the wrap-up are stripped out («we're on slide 22 of 62», «let's take a look», «in short») because they are the seconds you spend waiting for the part that matters.

A natural voice, as if
it were your professor

It breathes and pauses where it should.

Kokoro 82M local voice model

«An architectural pattern is a reusable solution to a problem that shows up again and again in one and the same context.»

It helps you remember it,
while you are still studying

Multiple choice

Four options, and the wrong ones are the usual confusions, not absurdities.

Filling the gap

Writing the word is quite a bit more than recognising it among four.

Telling it out loud

You talk for thirty seconds and it tells you which ideas you covered.

The open question

Answered from memory, in words. Whether you had it is yours to say.

You pay once
and it's 100% yours.

Try it

Free

The first 10 documents

  • Up to 100 slides of each one
  • All three levels of detail
  • Every voice
  • No card, no account
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Once, forever

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Until October 21
  • Unlimited PDFs and slides
  • Every update to version 1
  • One device
  • Works offline, ten years from now too
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  • Exactly the same as Filmina
  • Verified with your institutional email
  • The licence doesn't expire when you graduate
  • One payment, same as the other
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More questions?

Do I need internet?

Only to download and activate it. After that, no: the explanations and the voice are generated on your machine.

Which Mac do I need?

Any Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 onwards) and macOS 13 or later. The model takes up around 10 GB on disk the first time.

Does it work with scanned PDFs?

If the page is a photo with no text layer, Filmina tells you instead of making things up. You have to run OCR on it first.

What about diagrams and charts?

It marks them as a figure and tells you to look. The model reads text: it would rather tell you there is something there than explain a chart it never saw.

Can it make things up?

On summary and full it stays with what the slide says, and it is verified in code that every block was covered. Extended is the only level that adds outside context, and it says so.

How is it different from Speechify or NotebookLM?

A text-to-speech reader tells you what is written on the slide; NotebookLM turns the whole PDF into a podcast. Filmina explains each slide while you look at it and points at the block it is talking about. Compared in detail: against Speechify, against NotebookLM and against ChatGPT.

What language does it explain in?

In English or in Spanish, whichever you pick, whatever language the PDF is written in.

One payment, really?

Yes. One licence, every update to version 1 included, and the app keeps working even if you never pay again. If a big version 2 ever arrives, it will be an optional upgrade.

Start with
just one slide

Drop in that PDF you've been putting off and hear it explained. Thirty seconds is enough to know whether it's for you.

No account · macOS 13 or later