# ListenLeaf — Hear books, docs, and briefs > Hear books, docs, and briefs (iPhone/iPad app by David Seppi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/listenleaf/id6757962999 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [David Seppi](https://appshunter.io/developer/1845444357) - Category: Books, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 85 MB - Released: 2026-07-02 - Data updated: 2026-09-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/listenleaf/id6757962999/reviews.md ## What is ListenLeaf? ListenLeaf transforms books, PDFs, Word documents, text files, web content, and legal materials into a focused listening and reading experience. Import documents you already own, select a natural Neural Voice, and listen while following along with synchronized highlighting. ListenLeaf’s narration runs directly on your device, supporting private listening without sending document text to a cloud speech service. Whether you are enjoying a novel, studying coursework, reviewing a brief, or working through a lengthy document, ListenLeaf helps you make meaningful progress without remaining tied to the screen. LISTEN YOUR WAY • Import EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, and HTML documents • Listen with private, on-device Neural Voices • Choose 1×, 1.25×, or 1.5× playback • Follow narration with synchronized text highlighting • Navigate by chapter, heading, section, or document structure • Continue listening through Bluetooth, CarPlay, and lock-screen controls • Use Apple Watch controls for convenient playback access • Resume where you stopped across reading sessions • Add optional ambient soundscapes for a more comfortable listening environment READ, MARK, AND REVISIT • Select individual words or complete passages • Add highlights, notes, bookmarks, and tags • Keep annotations anchored to their original text • Find saved material through the Saved Content tray • Search within books and documents • Use RSVP when you prefer focused visual speed reading • Customize typography, appearance, highlighting, and reading behavior BUILT FOR LONG-FORM READING ListenLeaf is designed for books and documents that deserve sustained attention. Use it for novels, research, coursework, contracts, briefs, policies, manuals, articles, and more. Track reading time, goals, streaks, and completed books while building a reading routine that works for you. Accessibility support includes VoiceOver, Voice Control, Switch Control, Dynamic Type, reduced motion, and adaptable light and dark appearances. LISTENLEAF LEGAL The optional ListenLeaf Legal add-on provides a dedicated workspace for legal professionals and law students. Organize documents by matter, capture source-linked notes, apply issue tags, maintain review logs, manage assignments and deadlines, check citation formatting, create review reports, and prepare exportable handoff materials—all while retaining access to ListenLeaf’s reader and narration tools. ListenLeaf Legal supports professional review workflows but does not provide legal advice or replace independent professional judgment. PRIVACY-MINDED BY DESIGN Your documents remain yours. ListenLeaf uses a local-first architecture, and on-device narration does not require uploading your reading material to a remote speech service. Features requiring external services are identified before information is shared. Turn reading time into listening time and lengthy documents into focused, measurable progress. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-06 This is ListenLeaf’s largest update yet, with major improvements to narration, reading, organization, accessibility, and professional document review. NEURAL NARRATION • New private, on-device Neural Voices for more natural long-form listening. • Seven carefully selected male and female voices. • Optimized 1×, 1.25×, and 1.5× playback speeds. • Improved voice consistency between sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. • Your book text remains on your device during narration. SMOOTHER, MORE RELIABLE PLAYBACK • Rebuilt audio scheduling for more consistent continuous listening. • Reduced gaps, repeated words, clipped endings, and delayed starts. • Improved long-session performance and recovery from temporary synthesis delays. • Better Bluetooth, CarPlay, lock-screen, and Apple Watch behavior. • More reliable play, pause, seek, chapter navigation, interruptions, and relaunch recovery. • Playback speed now remains consistent when changing voices. REDESIGNED READER • A cleaner, more spacious reading interface with refined translucent controls. • Improved light and dark appearances. • Clearer title and chapter presentation with a subtle text fade beneath the toolbar. • Added elapsed time, remaining time, percentage complete, and percentage remaining. • Improved word and passage highlighting alignment during narration. • Dedicated page margins keep annotation icons from covering the text. TEXT SELECTION AND ANNOTATIONS • More natural long-press passage selection. • Read from a selection, highlight, add a note, apply a tag, bookmark, copy, share, search, or define text. • Notes, highlights, bookmarks, and tags remain anchored to their source passages. • Margin icons make saved material easy to find while reading. • A new Saved Content tray collects annotations for the current book. AMBIENT LISTENING • Add background soundscapes while listening. • Improved narration and ambience mixing across the speaker, Bluetooth, and CarPlay. LISTENLEAF LEGAL • A dedicated workspace for reviewing and organizing legal documents. • Create and manage matters, assignments, deadlines, notes, tags, citations, and review work. • Dictate source-linked review notes with clear permission and privacy states. • Build review reports and professional handoff materials. • Preview and export PDF, Word, and document packets. • Archive and delete matters with associated-artifact cleanup. • Improved encrypted storage, Face ID, save recovery, purchase restoration, and entitlement handling. • Refined navigation and responsive iPhone and iPad layouts. LIBRARY AND IMPORTS • Redesigned Library with clearer reading and import status. • Improved document conversion, cancellation, reimporting, and error recovery. • Better support for complex, multilingual, right-to-left, malformed, and large documents. • Expanded search, filtering, organization, and library tools. MORE READING TOOLS • Restored RSVP, Focus Loop, focus modes, Catch-Up, sleep timer, and in-book search. • Expanded study organization, themes, typography, gestures, and appearance controls. • Improved SnapRead and library power tools. ACTIVITY AND PROGRESS • Track reading time, goals, streaks, achievements, and completed books. • Clearer weekly and monthly progress reporting. • More reliable completion and activity tracking across relaunches and time-zone changes. ACCESSIBILITY • Improved VoiceOver labels, focus retention, heading navigation, and narration tracking. • Better Voice Control, Switch Control, keyboard navigation, and maximum Dynamic Type support. • Improved contrast, reduced-motion behavior, and large-text layouts. PRIVACY, PURCHASES, AND QUALITY • Strengthened local data protection and recoverable saving. • Improved purchases, restoration, offline access, and entitlement recovery. • Expanded automated testing for narration, imports, migrations, accessibility, Legal workflows, and failure recovery. • Numerous performance, memory, stability, and interface improvements throughout ListenLeaf. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-07-28 What’s New in 1.0.2 ListenLeaf 1.0.2 focuses on smoother, more reliable listening. This update improves CarPlay playback stability, reduces long pauses between spoken segments, and makes the Kokoro voice pipeline more predictable during longer sessions. It also improves playback continuity when listening in the background or through vehicle audio. Additional polish includes better version display in Settings, continued tuning for synced text highlighting, and general performance/stability improvements across the reader. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-07-07 What’s New in Version 1.0.1 ListenLeaf 1.0.1 improves reading and playback reliability across the app. Smoother Kokoro voice playback with fewer gaps between sentences Improved text highlighting sync while listening, including faster playback speeds Better startup behavior when beginning playback Reader polish for sentence tracking, progress, and resume behavior CarPlay stability and playback improvements General bug fixes and performance refinements Thanks for listening with ListenLeaf. ### 1.0 — 2026-07-02 No release notes. ## More apps by David Seppi - [Iodoku](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iodoku/id6753880944) - [Kinsei](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kinsei/id6758316582) - [Chessapeake](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chessapeake/id6788574785) All apps by David Seppi: https://appshunter.io/developer/1845444357 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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