# Readmon — Read or hear the books you own

> Read or hear the books you own (iPhone/iPad app by Minhaeng Lee.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/readmon/id6803438401 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Minhaeng Lee](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799366920)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 49 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-09-17
- Data updated: 2026-10-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/readmon/id6803438401/reviews.md

## What is Readmon?

Readmon reads the books you already own, out loud, in a voice that sounds like a person.

On a night when your eyes are tired, or with your hands in the sink, the story keeps going.

■ Ten AI voices that sound like people

Not a robot. Choose from five female and five male voices.
Add a reading style that fits the text — novel, news — and Readmon remembers which voice you used for each book.

The AI voices support 31 languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Languages not on this list cannot be read by the AI voices. Chinese is not on the list.
If the language you read is not on the list, please do not buy the AI voices. You can listen in that language with the system voices built into iOS, and everything else in the app is free.

Dialogue is read in a different voice from the narration.
When lines run back and forth, two voices take turns, so it sounds like a conversation.

■ On your iPhone, with no internet

The narration is generated entirely on your iPhone.
It keeps working when the connection drops, and on a plane.

You download a voice once. After that, no internet is needed.

■ The files you already have

TXT, EPUB and PDF, and comics too.
7z, CBZ, CBR, ZIP and RAR all open.
Bring books in from Calibre-Web, OPDS, WebDAV, Dropbox or OneDrive.

PDFs and scanned books are recognized on the device and read aloud as well.

■ Comfortable while you read

Sleep timer — it stops on its own if you fall asleep
Lock screen controls — turn pages and pause without taking it out of your pocket
Repeat a passage — go back over the part you missed
Pronunciation dictionary — make names and unusual words sound the way you want
Page-turn animation — pages that turn like paper

■ Not a subscription

Buy the AI voices once and they stay yours.
Nothing to cancel, nothing to pay again next month.

Listen free for 30 minutes before you buy.
Everything else works without buying anything.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI Voice Lifetime | $5.99 | one-time |
| Remove Ads | $0.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-17

iPad is now supported. Book cards and titles in the Library scale up for the larger display, and the reader and Folders screens were rebuilt for it.
Readmon is now available in English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

New
• Drag the progress bar and a bubble tells you which episode and page you are heading to. Slide your finger down to seek one page at a time.
• The Library home splits into Continue reading and All books.
• Page Split — flip half a page at a time through PDFs and comics scanned two pages to a sheet.
• Crop margins now works on comics too.
• Button Shortcut — bind 19 reader actions to the Action button or Back Tap.
• Open TXT and EPUB files in a linked folder straight from the original, with no copy.
• Read Aloud speed now goes up to 2.5x, and shows the recommended speed for your device.
• To Playback Position and Back to My Page move between where you are listening and where you were reading.
• Reorder your Collections.

Fixed
• Read Aloud cutting out or repeating a sentence when crossing an episode boundary
• Skipping two episodes at a page-turn boundary
• Memory held after opening and closing the reader
• Slow opening of large TXT files

### 1.0 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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