Terms of sale and use

Halo Reader is made and sold by Halo Digital (ByFaith Global), Johannesburg, South Africa. Last updated 7 November 2026.

Free version

You may download and use Halo Reader free of charge for as long as you like. While unlicensed it reads about the first 2 minutes of each book.

Licence

A Halo Reader licence costs US$50 through PayPal, or R900 through iKhokha in South Africa, paid once. It unlocks full books for life and covers all 1.x updates. Your key is for you personally and may be used on the phones and tablets you use. Please do not share, publish or resell it.

Refunds

Because you can try every feature free before buying, we ask that you test Halo Reader on your own phone first. If it does not work on your phone, email us within 7 days of purchase with your receipt and we will refund you.

Requirements

Halo Reader requires a 64-bit Android phone or tablet running Android 8 or newer, with about 1 GB of free space. It reads PDFs that contain real text, in English. It does not read scanned PDFs and does not run on iPhone.

Your books

Please use Halo Reader only with books and documents you have the right to read. You are responsible for the files you open with it.

No warranty

Halo Reader is provided “as is”. Speech may include mispronunciations. To the extent allowed by law, Halo Digital is not liable for any indirect or consequential damages arising from its use.

Open-source components

Halo Reader includes open-source software and models, including the Kokoro voice model, sherpa-onnx, ONNX Runtime, misaki and PDFBox-Android, under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licences. Full notices are available inside the app.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

Questions: info@byfaithglobal.com