# Issa Reader — Native Client for Storyteller > Native Client for Storyteller (iPhone/iPad app by Benjamin Issa.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/issa-reader/id6806803431 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Benjamin Issa](https://appshunter.io/developer/1860745071) - Category: Books, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 21 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-08 - Data updated: 2026-09-14 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/issa-reader/id6806803431/reviews.md ## What is Issa Reader? Issa Reader is a native reader for Storyteller, the self-hosted server that lines an ebook up with its audiobook so you can move between reading and listening without losing your place. REQUIRES A STORYTELLER SERVER Issa Reader is a client, not a bookshop. It has no catalogue of its own and nothing to sell you. Point it at a Storyteller server you run, sign in, and read your own library. Without a server, there is nothing here to show you. READ A real typesetting engine, not a web view. Pages are laid out natively, so turning one is instant and the type is properly set. Six bundled reading faces, including Literata, Source Serif 4 and OpenDyslexic, or add a font of your own. Four page themes for daylight, lamplight and the middle of the night. Size, line spacing and justification are yours to set, per book or for everything. LISTEN Variable speed with pitch correction, chapter and sentence navigation, skip controls, a sleep timer, and full Now Playing support on the Lock Screen and in Control Centre. READ ALONG This is what Storyteller is for. Where a book has narration aligned to its text, the words light up as they are spoken, the page turns itself to follow, and tapping any line starts the narrator there. Stop reading, keep listening, and pick up on the same sentence — the two stay in step. IN THE CAR CarPlay gives you your shelves and chapters as proper lists, with Now Playing and a resume that lands on the sentence you left, not somewhere near it. Steering-wheel buttons, headphone controls and on-screen controls can each be remapped independently, so the same button can do different things in different places. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY, ON DEVICE The catalogue is fetched once and kept locally, so searching by title, author, narrator, series or tag is instant and works with no signal at all. Shelves are built on your device from what you actually have. Download books to read and listen offline. ON EVERY SCREEN A Home Screen widget with your current book, chapter and progress. Native apps for Apple TV and the Mac are included with the same purchase, and Handoff carries your place between them. BUILT FOR THESE PLATFORMS Written in Swift for iPhone and iPad, using the system's own text engine, audio stack and accessibility support throughout. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and reduced motion are respected, not retrofitted. Issa Reader is an independent client and is not affiliated with the Storyteller project. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-11 YOUR PLACE, WHEREVER YOU LEFT IT This version is about one thing: a book you read on the phone, listen to in the car, and pick up again later should always open where you actually stopped. • Start a book on the phone and carry on in CarPlay — the car resumes from where you were reading, not from the start of the chapter. • Park, unplug, and open the book. The page takes over from the narrator at the sentence it had reached, and only once the drive has ended. • A place you choose yourself — a scrub, a tap on a chapter — is now respected by the reading page as well as the narrator. Hours of listening are no longer kept nowhere at all. • An audio bookmark older than your reading position no longer wins, so an evening of reading in silence is not undone the next time you press Listen. • The same book opened on a second device starts near the right place rather than at chapter one. THE AUDIOBOOK CONTROLS • Previous restarts the chapter you are in, instead of dropping into the last second of the one before it. • Two quick taps on Next move two chapters. • A sleep timer set while the audiobook is playing survives the book moving to the reading page, and scrubbing across a chapter no longer counts as a chapter ending. • Removing one edition of a book no longer stops another edition that is still playing. ALSO • Reading, downloads and Ask about your book are unchanged. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-08 ASK ABOUT YOUR BOOK New in this version, and off until you turn it on in Settings. Ask a question about the book you are reading and get an answer drawn from the book's own sentences. • Answered on this device by Apple Intelligence. Your question and the book's text never leave the iPhone or iPad — no server, no account, no analytics. • Spoiler-aware. Ask draws only on the pages behind where you are reading, so a question about a character cannot give away what is still ahead. It tries hard rather than promising, and says so. • Every answer shows its sources. Tap an excerpt to read the passage the answer rests on. • Six suggestions to start from — who someone is, how two people are related, what has happened so far — or type your own. • Close the sheet while a question is still working and the answer finishes anyway; a notification brings you back to it. Requires an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on. ALSO NEW • Downloads have a place of their own. The Reading tab shows what is on this device, with sizes per book and per edition, and one screen to clear them from. • Volume is measured in decibels now, with a soft knee in place of the old hard clip, so turning a quiet audiobook up stops distorting it. Levels you had already set carry over. • The screen stays awake while a book is reading itself aloud. • A book's subtitle appears on its book screen, where a jacket would put it. FIXED • Cancel now cancels a download, and restarting one no longer deletes it. • A deleted download stays deleted. • A font added for one book can be removed again. • The read-along highlight no longer swallows the following line. • A library folder that cannot be read no longer looks like an emptied library. • The time above the scrubber survives a book that reports a nonsense duration. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-08 No release notes. ## More apps by Benjamin Issa - [Family Wellness CheckIn](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/family-wellness-checkin/id6756459118) - [NWS Weather (Unofficial)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nws-weather-unofficial/id6790822706) All apps by Benjamin Issa: https://appshunter.io/developer/1860745071 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-14.*