Back to the Story

Some chapters are for reading. Some are for listening. Back to the Story is built for people who do both, and who like to remember what they read. Read your ebook over coffee, then switch to the audiobook when you head out the door. Back to the Story carries your place between the page and the recording automatically, so you always pick up right where you left off. When you finish, give the book a rating and a few notes, and it joins your reading journal for good. READ AND LISTEN IN ONE APP • A comfortable ebook reader and a full-featured audiobook player, side by side • Pair an ebook with its audiobook and switch between them whenever you like • Your position follows you: stop reading mid-chapter, start listening at the same sentence TRACK EVERY BOOK YOU READ • Rate books with one to five stars and keep private notes on each one • Mark books read or reread, and see your progress on every cover • Reviews keeps a permanent record of every book you've had, even after you delete its files to free up space • Sort your shelf by rating, author, recently read or read status, and search your notes • Set a yearly reading goal with the Pizza-Based Book Tracker: earn a gold star for every book you finish and watch the pizza fill in • Export your library and reviews, and import them again on a new phone NO AUDIOBOOK? NO PROBLEM • Private on-device Text to Speech reads any ebook aloud • Start from any word: tap it and choose "Read to me from here" • Three voice models, so it sounds good on older and newer iPhones alike: – Most Expressive Model: the most natural delivery, for newer iPhones – Balanced Model: the default, quality and speed in step – Best Performance Model: light enough for every supported iPhone • Create your own voice from a short recording or audio clip, made and kept on your iPhone • Compare models and voices side by side before you choose • It tracks your place just like a recording, so you can switch back to reading • Voices run entirely on your iPhone: no account, no internet needed to listen LISTEN ANYWHERE • Keep listening with the screen locked • Skip, speed and sleep-timer controls • Works fully offline once your books are on your phone: reading, listening and Text to Speech YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • List, grid and shelf views, plus five color themes from warm paper to bright lagoon • Group books into collections • Add books from the Files app, including iCloud Drive • Ebooks: EPUB, PDF, unencrypted MOBI, TXT, Markdown, HTML, RTF and FictionBook • Audiobooks: M4B, or MP3 files in a folder or ZIP • Bookmarks, find in book, dictionary look-up and pronunciation fixes built in • No account, no sign-up, no tracking TRY PRO FREE FOR 30 DAYS Reading and your reading journal are always free. Audiobook playback and Text to Speech come with a 30-day free trial. After that, unlock them forever with Back to the Story Pro, a single one-time purchase. No subscription. Back to the Story works with DRM-free files. Books bought through stores that lock their files to their own apps can't be opened.