OpenReader: Read Aloud
EPUBs in the voice you choose
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About
OpenReader reads your EPUB books aloud and highlights each word as it is spoken,
so you can listen, read along, or both.
OpenReader uses your own account with a speech service. You need an API key
from one of these: OpenAI, Fish Audio, Microsoft Azure Speech, Speechify, or a
server you run yourself (OpenAI-compatible or Kokoro-FastAPI).
• Word by word: the page follows the voice and marks each word as it is spoken.
• Keeps reading with the screen locked, with controls on the Lock Screen.
• Download chapters to listen without a connection.
• Look up a word or translate a passage without leaving the page.
• Pick up where you left off on another device, through WebDAV storage you own.
• Your way: font, text size, margins, alignment, pauses between sentences and
paragraphs, light and dark.
Free to download. Reading aloud is free for 30 days, then a one-time in-app purchase unlocks it for good. Reading, look-up and sync stay free.
No account, no subscription, no server of its own. Your documents stay on your
iPhone, and text goes only to the service you choose, after you allow it.
OpenReader is open source: github.com/xujialiu/OpenReader
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What's New in OpenReader
1.0.3
October 28, 2026
Fixes and improvements: • Sleep Timer: reading aloud pauses by itself after 5 to 60 minutes, or at the end of the chapter. • Tap Lock: while it is on, a tap on the page no longer moves the reading or follows a link. Scrolling and long-pressing a word to look it up still work. • The player is now a compact card above the Home bar, with Tap Lock and the Sleep Timer in its top row. • The voice you choose now applies to every book, so you no longer pick it again in each one. • On the Download page, one Switch voice menu replaces the row for each saved voice, leaving room for more chapters.
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Read aloud free for 30 days.