# Murmur: EPUB & PDF Reader — AI Text to Speech & Read Aloud > AI Text to Speech & Read Aloud (iPhone/iPad app by Jan Piotrzkowski.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/murmur-epub-and-pdf-reader/id6787502394 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jan Piotrzkowski](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783748789) - Category: Books, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2.2 GB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-12 - Data updated: 2026-09-02 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/murmur-epub-and-pdf-reader/id6787502394/reviews.md ## What is Murmur? Turn the books and documents you already own into audiobooks. Murmur reads EPUBs and PDFs aloud with natural neural voices that run entirely on your iPhone. Import a book, choose a narrator, press play, and keep listening while you commute, exercise, cook, clean, or simply give your eyes a break. NO AUDIOBOOK? NO PROBLEM. Most books will never receive a professionally produced audiobook. Your textbooks, PDFs, self-published books, research material, old EPUBs, and personal documents may never have one at all. Murmur lets you listen to the files you already have instead of buying another copy. READ EPUB & PDF ALOUD Import EPUB and PDF files directly into your library. Murmur organizes books into chapters and paragraphs and keeps your reading and listening position together. Follow the text while the narrator speaks, or put your phone away and keep listening in the background. 23 NEURAL VOICES Choose from 23 bundled narrators across 10 languages. Set a default narrator for each language or choose a different voice for an individual book. Adjust playback speed whenever you want. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Your books stay on your iPhone. Speech is generated on-device, so Murmur doesn't need to upload your EPUBs, PDFs, textbooks, or personal documents to a text-to-speech server. • No account • No document uploads • No cloud processing • No internet connection required for narration • Background playback BUILT FOR BOOKS, NOT JUST TEXT Murmur combines an EPUB reader, PDF reader, text-to-speech engine, audiobook player, and follow-along reader in one library. Use it for: • EPUB books • PDF books and documents • Textbooks and course material • Research and professional reading • Independent and self-published books • Out-of-print titles • Long reading backlogs • Hands-free reading • Read-aloud and accessibility workflows LISTEN YOUR WAY Murmur remembers your position, playback speed, and narrator settings for every book. Switch between reading and listening without losing your place. FREE TO START Import as many books as you want. Free includes 60 minutes of listening every 30 days and access to one English and one Polish narrator. Murmur Premium unlocks unlimited listening and all 23 voices. Your books already contain the words. Murmur gives them a voice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://readbuildship.com/apps/murmur/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium Yearly | $49.99 | per year | | Premium Weekly | $4.99 | per 7 days | | Premium Monthly | $14.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-08-29 Listen without the previous voice playback error. This update restores narration for imported EPUB and PDF books, public-library books, and voice previews in Settings. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-20 Murmur now speaks ten languages instead of three. • New voices for Danish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, bringing the catalogue to 23 built-in narrators • The whole app is translated into all ten languages • Murmur detects the language a book is written in and picks a matching narrator automatically • Every book can now keep its own narrator, separate from your default • Import and PDF parsing fixes ### 1.0 — 2026-08-12 No release notes. ## More apps by Jan Piotrzkowski - [Sandpiper - Cozy Beach Arcade](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sandpiper-cozy-beach-arcade/id6783748786) - [Smile to Unlock: App Blocker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smile-to-unlock-app-blocker/id6787499000) - [Orbit: ADHD Time Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orbit-adhd-time-tracker/id6789995389) All apps by Jan Piotrzkowski: https://appshunter.io/developer/6783748789 --- *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 2026-09-02.*