Breaks vs PaperSpeak

Breaks is a simple focus timer to help you do your best work. Breaks lets you easily timebox your work and ensure you’re taking adequate breaks, so you can focus better and be more productive. Breaks is designed to be simple as possible with no extraneous features. Too many apps today try to do too much and make it difficult to do the one thing you actually want the app to do. Breaks is a single screen. You set your work duration, break duration, and hit Start Session, and that's it! Breaks will remember your last used durations so when your session is over, you can go again with a single tap. - Start a focus session with work and break durations - Get notifications when the work portion is over and at the end of the session - Can do work-only or break-only sessions - Interactive widgets lets you see the current time remaining as well as start/stop/restart sessions

PaperSpeak turns the documents you already have into a calm, focused listening experience. PaperSpeak is free to download and use, with no ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Import a file or paste text, choose a voice, and listen while PaperSpeak highlights each sentence. Tap any sentence to jump directly to it, adjust the playback speed, and continue later from where you stopped. READ AND LISTEN TOGETHER • Follow clear sentence-by-sentence highlighting • Tap any sentence to start from that point • Adjust playback speed from 0.5× to 2× • Continue listening in the background • Resume each document from your saved position BRING YOUR OWN DOCUMENTS • Import PDF, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, and Pages files • Read text-based and scanned PDFs with on-device recognition • Keep PDF reading order while common repeated headers, footers, and page numbers are removed • Follow PDF page progress and resume where you stopped • Import several documents at once • Paste text to create a document instantly • Share text, webpages, and supported document files directly from other apps • Webpage import focuses on the main article and skips common banners, navigation, sidebars, related-content grids, comments, and footers • Share one or several screenshots and extract editable text on-device • Older DOC files can be converted to DOCX before import KEEP YOUR LIBRARY ORGANIZED • Create and rename folders • Select several documents at once • Move documents between folders • Rename or delete documents whenever you like CHOOSE HOW PAPER SPEAKS • Use built-in Apple voices offline • Choose from 13 language options: Mandarin, Cantonese, US and UK English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, and Arabic • Set a favorite voice for each selected language • Optionally connect Azure, OpenAI, or ElevenLabs with your own API key PaperSpeak does not require an account and does not contain advertising or tracking. Documents, screenshot recognition, and scanned-PDF recognition stay on your device when using built-in voices. When you choose a cloud speech engine, the text being spoken is sent directly to that provider to generate audio. Optional cloud providers may charge for their services; see each provider’s official website for more information.