Getting started
TurnOver is a screen reader for the Mac. It uses VoiceOver's keys, so what you already know works, and it reads the apps you use every day more simply than VoiceOver does. It runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.
Installing
- Move TurnOver to your Applications folder and open it. A welcome message explains what it needs.
- Turn TurnOver on in System Settings, Privacy and Security, under Accessibility (called Device Control and Data Access on macOS 27) and under Input Monitoring. macOS asks for the first; if it doesn't ask for the second, TurnOver tells you where it is.
Starting and stopping
When TurnOver stops, VoiceOver takes over.
- Command Control Period starts TurnOver, or stops it, from anywhere. A rising chime means on, a falling one off.
reads every app unless you give one to VoiceOver; VoiceOver always handles passwords and macOS's own prompts.
- Command Control Shift T gives the app in front to VoiceOver, or back to TurnOver, and remembers it. TurnOver
- To start TurnOver when you log in: the TurnOver menu, Settings, Starting, Open TurnOver at login.
The first five minutes
Right or Return opens, Escape closes.
- Press Command Control Comma. TurnOver says "TurnOver": press M for the TurnOver menu. Up and Down move,
- Press Command Control Comma twice to hear every letter you can press after it.
- Your VoiceOver voice, speed and verbosity can come with you: the TurnOver menu, Settings, Copy VoiceOver settings, then Copy. Revert, beside it, puts back what you had before.
Updates
TurnOver checks once a day. When there is a new build it says so and asks whether to install it. The TurnOver menu, About and updates, Updates checks now; What's new lists every build's changes.