Instaread vs Libratory

Quench your thirst of knowledge in record time! Instaread offers key insights from thousands of bestselling books. Available in audio & text. In 15 minutes. ● Get smarter in 15 min or less ● Thousands of professionally written titles & constantly growing ● Instaread Originals on important topics and people ● Available in text & audio ● 7-day free trial ● Beautiful and smart cover-illustrations ● Download content to read/listen offline ● Save to your library Titles include: ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ by Tim Ferriss ‘The Untethered Soul’ by Michael A. Singer ‘The 5 Second Rule’ by Mel Robbins ‘Good to Great’ by James C. Collins ‘Blink’ by Malcolm Gladwell ‘Unshakeable’ by Tony Robbins ‘Eat Fat Get Thin’ by Mark Hyman and thousands more! ONLY THE BEST NONFICTION BOOKS ● Only the absolute best books make it into our app. ● Highly curated content ensures useful learning and avoids waste of time. INSTAREAD ORIGINALS ● “Success Stories”: A series on leadership in business, politics, and the arts. ● “Short Cuts”: Today’s hottest topics distilled. CREATED BY PROFESSIONALS ● Subject-matter experts extract key insights from books and craft Instaread Originals. ● Multiple professionals including writers, editors, voice actors & artists carefully craft every Intaread to perfection. ● All content is fact-checked for accuracy & quality. IMPROVE YOURSELF & STAY INFORMED ● Unlock the knowledge from the world’s greatest books & get access to profound ideas. ● Apply game changing ideas to improve important aspects of your life. ● Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in business, science, health, tech, history, culture & more. AUDIO & TEXT ● All Instareads are available in text and in audio. ● On the road, at the gym or at home cooking? Use the audio feature to multi-task. ● Switch between audio & text effortlessly. ● Read & listen at the same time. ONLINE & OFFLINE ● Download any amount of Instareads to your device. ● Access content on the plane, train or any location with limited connectivity. ---------------------------------------------- In the Press “...this cool service lets you read or listen to [...] highlights versions of hundreds of bestselling books.” CNET “...a nearly instantaneous way of diving into a book, understanding its meaning and boiling down key takeaways – all in a matter of minutes.” TheNextWeb “...[through this app] you can get expanded back-cover synopses complete with thematic takeaways to help you focus your reading list” Mashable ---------------------------------------------- Instaread offers two subscription options: Monthly subscription for $8.99/month (with first week FREE) and a Yearly subscription for $89.99/year (with first week FREE). Cancel subscription anytime. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period by going to your iOS Account Settings after purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the price of the annual or monthly subscription depending on what is chosen. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you change from an annual to a monthly subscription or from a monthly to an annual subscription during the free trial period. The privacy policy can be viewed at instaread.co/privacy. The terms of use can be viewed at instaread.co/terms.

Libratory plays an audiobook over the real pages of the book, lighting up the sentence and the word being spoken as it reads. Double-tap a sentence to hear it again. Books are made on your Mac with the free Libratory desktop tool, which pairs a book with its narration and saves both as one synced EPUB. Send that file to your iPhone or iPad with AirDrop or the Files app, tap + on the shelf, and press play. Nothing is streamed, no account is needed, and everything works offline. The app comes with a short three-chapter guide already on the shelf. It is itself a synced book, so reading it is the fastest way to see what the app does. READ AND LISTEN • The voice plays over the printed page, with the sentence and the word highlighted as they are spoken • Double-tap a sentence to hear it from there • Three views of a synced book: Page shows the whole sheet with its pictures and tables, Column crops to the printed words, Text reflows the words at a size you choose • Playback continues with the screen locked, with the chapter, cover and controls on the lock screen • Change the speed and the highlight keeps up READ IN TWO LANGUAGES • A book exported with a translation opens with the original and the translation together, each with its own voice • Tap a word to hear the book from there, or to see what it means in the other language • Alternate sentences reads each sentence in one language and then the other • The original can stay on its printed page beside the translation JUST READ, OR JUST LISTEN • Open an EPUB ebook you already own and read it in Text view • Open an M4B audiobook, pick a chapter, and listen with the screen off PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF • The app remembers your place in every book and shows which parts you have heard • Hold a word to save it, put it in a group, and add a note; find it again in Marks • Search the book and your saved words, then jump back to read or listen KEEP YOUR LIBRARY IN ORDER • Folders and tags for your books, and a search across the whole library • Each book says which chapters light up word by word and which sentence by sentence PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no analytics, no network calls. Your books stay on your device. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.6 or later. On iOS 15 and 16, a simpler reader includes Pages and Text, playback, highlighting, chapters, saved progress, and two-language books in two panes. Bookmarks, search, folders and tags require iOS 17 or later. Synced books are made with the Libratory desktop app for Mac, free at libratory.dev. Plain EPUB ebooks and M4B audiobooks open as they are.