# Auto-Reader: Books & Manga — Read Aloud & AI Translation

> Read Aloud & AI Translation (iPhone/iPad app by Rakan Al-Ghunaim.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/auto-reader-books-and-manga/id6801765640 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rakan Al-Ghunaim](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801765642)
- Category: Books, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 188 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 3 more
- Released: 2026-08-19
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Auto?

Auto-Reader reads your books, PDFs, comics and manga aloud in a natural, on-device voice so you can "read" while your hands are busy driving, walking, at the gym, or commuting. Check-out the deep-voice number 10

ON YOUR APPLE WATCH
• Play, pause and skip from your wrist, or pick a book from the Library — the phone can stay in your pocket, locked
• Your music keeps playing softly under the voice; pausing the book pauses the music too
• Raise your wrist for the time, the chapter and page — and, with Premium, every word as it is read
• Sleep Check: a gentle "still listening?" before you drift off, and the book goes back to where you last answered

AUDIO BOOKS YOU KEEP
• Export any book as an audio book, with passage markers, and send it to your TV, speaker or Apple Watch
• Audio shelves on the home screen, and background sound (rain, hum, fire) under the voice

WHY AUTO-READER
• Hear any of your books while your hands are busy or commuting and utilize that time. By hearing book in most natural voice on-device. As our devices have gotten a lot smarter and faster.
• Hands-free manga: it narrates panel by panel, in reading order, zooming as it goes
• 31 languages, with on-device translation
• Private by default — works offline, no account, your books never leave your phone
• Lifelike text-to-speech that runs entirely on your device
• Opens EPUB, PDF, comics (CBZ) and manga — no converting

A LIBRARY TO START FROM — FREE AND BUILT IN
Browse 300+ free classics and open-licensed books by shelf and add them in a tap — no account, no card. Every one narrates aloud.

MADE FOR HOW YOU READ
• Follow the highlighted line as it's read
• Pick from real, distinct voices — male and female, per language
• Adjust speed on the fly; instant page turns while listening
• Snap a photo of a page and have it read back to you
• Pick up exactly where you left off, across your whole library
• Back up your library and restore it on another device

Optional cloud AI features are available if you want them — the app is fully usable without any of them, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you turn them on and ask.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · Privacy Policy: https://auto-reader.com/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| لا محدود | $1.99 | per 2 months |
| بلا حدود | $12.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Auto-Reader: AI قارىء كتب | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Auto safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Auto.

## Is Auto legit?

Auto-Reader: Books & Manga has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Auto is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.2 — 2026-10-23

A manga and book reader made for iPhone Duo. Better on every iPhone, and it brings the Duo features to iPad, so no one is left out.

• iPhone Duo: open it and your book stays on one screen while the other keeps a companion close: define and translate, contents and bookmarks, your library, or AI tools (summary so far, explain a passage, Ask AI).
• Ask AI now searches your whole library and answers with numbered citations you can tap to jump to the passage. Turn on the optional on-device library index and choose Off, What I've read, or Whole book. With What I've read, it never spoils what's ahead. It works for page books too, using text recognition, and it indexes quietly in the background only when your battery can spare it.
• Read two books side by side, each on its own page; narration follows the one you press Play on. Manga shows the whole page beside the panel being read, and a translation can sit in columns next to the original.
• Half-fold it on a table for big play, skip and sleep controls under the book. Fold or unfold while listening and you keep your place.
• iPad: landscape now fills the screen, and the two-screen layout is there too, in the Layout sheet.
• Search inside text books, then tap a result to jump there and Back to return.
• Six new app languages: French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai.
• Cooler and kinder on battery: on-device AI rests in the background and eases off when the device is warm, and whole-book translation resumes where it stopped.

On an ordinary iPhone or iPad, everything stays just as you know it.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-10-20

Turn any book into an audio book you keep.

• Export any book as audio in high quality, with passage markers, in the book's own reading language and at the speed you choose with a new slider.
• Send it to your TV or speaker, or to your Apple Watch. Exported books sit on audio shelves on the home screen.
• Background sound (rain, hum, fire) now plays softly under the voice, set from the home screen.
• Nabra, a natural Arabic voice, is now in the voice picker, with an optional light English voice and a Saudi Arabic voice.
• A new, softer word highlight, with a Strong word highlight switch under Tt.
• Arabic books get right-to-left controls.
• New iPad and tablet layouts, including a two-page spread in landscape.
• Manga: a "Read in native tongue" switch for each book.
• Make a clean book from any PDF.
• 5 new books in Browse, and more choice over what sync carries.
• Fixes: Arabic narration that fell silent, a manga crash, a freeze on rotation, the reading order, and a cooler run when your device heats up.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-03

Auto-Reader, now on your Apple Watch.

• Play, pause, skip and choose a book from your wrist. Your music keeps playing softly under the voice, and pausing the book pauses the music too.
• Sync across iPhone, iPad and Android through Google Drive or any cloud folder: your reading place, shelves, books (PDFs and comics too) and translations follow you — and you can read from a friend's library without mixing it into yours.
• Your book keeps reading with the phone locked or the app closed — novels, manga and PDFs alike.
• Camera: crop and rotate a photo before it is read, and small text is read correctly in its own language.
• Export any book as a bilingual EPUB with chapters and a contents page; PDFs keep their pictures in a much smaller file.
• Raise your wrist for the time, chapter and page; with Premium, see every word as it is read and jump to any chapter and page.
• Sleep Check: turn on a gentle "still listening?" every 15 to 60 minutes or at each chapter's end, with the pages you would miss shown for each choice. No answer, and the book goes back to where you last answered.
• "Hey Siri, read a book in Auto-Reader", a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, and complications for your watch face.
• Themes now have real texture: aged parchment, green marble, Gilded Heirloom in black marble veined with gold, and the new Rosso Antico — Roman red marble, with statues from The Met.
• Leaving a book keeps it reading, with a small "now reading" bar on the home screen.
• Your library shows real covers — the book's own or its published cover — and a parchment cover for the rest. Book details show when it was first published and, in your language, a synopsis translated on your device.

### 1.3.5 — 2026-09-28

A voice of its own for Arabic and a calmer read everywhere else.

• Nabra reads Modern Standard Arabic in a natural voice and fills in the missing diacritics as it goes. Text that already carries them is read exactly as written. It is a one-time download, offered the first time you listen in Arabic.
• Pick a language while you are listening and the passage restarts in it straight away, instead of changing only at the next paragraph.
• When a language pack is missing, the app names it and fetches it in one tap.
• Pages turn in the middle of a paragraph, so a long paragraph no longer holds the page back while you listen.
• Voice previews are ready before you tap them, so changing voice or language is quick.
• Sepia Parchment is the new default, and every theme is free for your first two weeks. Tap a locked one to try it on before you decide.
• Quiet Dusk is rebuilt in green marble with gold, and night reading on the light themes is properly readable again.
• The interface now reads in Lora, a typeface made for long reading.

### 1.3.3 — 2026-09-13

Premium added.

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