Wait Menu vs Readio

Track the time remaining until your upcoming events with a simple, lightweight app designed to match the native system experience. Wait Menu helps you stay focused on what’s coming next by showing exactly how much time is left - down to the days, hours, and minutes. See your events at a glance with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Enable notifications to get notified when an event starts, with optional early reminders. Connect your system calendar to import existing events or add new ones directly. Choose which calendar to use and keep everything in sync. Designed with simplicity in mind, Wait Menu offers a distraction-free interface that matches native system design language. Dark Mode ensures a sleek look day or night, while iCloud sync keeps your events up to date across all your devices. Enjoy the waiting!

Readio turns the articles, PDFs, and documents you read into audio you can listen to - like a personal podcast feed built from anything on the web. Share a link from Safari, paste a URL, drop in a PDF, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Built entirely on-device. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac. No accounts. No tracking. No subscription. One price, yours forever. LISTEN ANYWHERE * High-quality on-device text-to-speech with a full Siri voice picker * Pitch-preserving 0.5x-2x playback - no chipmunk effect * Skip forward / back, jump by paragraph, scrub the timeline * Resumes where you left off, even across reboots * Auto-advance respects your progress - finished articles let the next queued one resume; Skip Next restarts fresh * Adjustable pause between articles, plus a sleep timer with "stop at end of article" PODCASTS & AUDIO * Add a podcast episode by RSS feed, direct audio link, episode page, or a local audio file * Plays right alongside your articles - same player, queue, CarPlay, and Lock Screen controls * Filter your Library to just audio, with a mic badge marking episodes WORKS WITH YOUR LIFE * CarPlay with pre-rendered audio for stutter-free highway driving * Articles render to disk in the background so wireless playback uses a real audio file * Lock screen, Control Center, Bluetooth, AirPods, and car-stereo controls all wired up * Background audio that survives phone calls without auto-resuming * Share extension - send any URL from any app into your queue A PLAYER THAT FEELS RIGHT * Tap the mini player and the artwork flies up into the full player with a matched-geometry morph * Album-style zoom into playlists and detail views * Animated waveform on whichever article is currently playing * Twelve accent palettes and iOS 26 Liquid Glass chrome throughout CLEAN READER VIEW * Five themes (Auto, Light, Sepia, Dark, Black) and eight reading-optimized fonts * Drop-cap opener, wider iPad column, sticky header with a live "X min left" pill * Tap to immerse - toolbars hide for distraction-free reading; one tap brings them back * Long-press any sentence to share it as a beautifully-rendered quote image * Read and listen interchangeably - your position syncs across both modes DOCUMENTS, NOT JUST ARTICLES * Import PDFs, HTML files, plain text, and Markdown * Read in the native viewer or extracted into the reader and listened to * Stored on-device - never sent to a server * Open from Files, AirDrop, or any share sheet KEEP THE WHOLE PAGE * Save full-page snapshots - code blocks, images, and layout intact * Available offline once captured, viewable from inside the article * Per-article default view, or turn it on globally SMART PLAYLISTS * Today, Quick Listens, Long Reads, Recently Played, Unstarted — auto-curated for the time you have * Build your own with a rule editor: by source, by length, by recency * Updates live as your library changes; tap to listen to the whole set ORGANIZE * Continue Listening carousel - pick up where you stopped on every in-progress article * Playlists with custom gradients and SF Symbol icons * Drag-to-reorder queue, swipe-to-remove, Edit button so handles are always visible * Long-press in Library, Search, or Up Next for one-tap Play, Start Over, Add to Queue, Move to Top, Archive, Delete * Auto-archive completed articles - restorable from Archive any time * Search with sort and instant keyboard dismiss * iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad RSS FEEDS * Subscribe to any feed - articles import automatically and are ready to listen * Smart deduplication so the same article never queues twice * "Restored from Archive" indicator when a re-shared article is already in your library PRIVATE BY DESIGN * Articles fetched directly from the source over HTTPS * Nothing leaves your device except the article URL itself * No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs * One-time payment - no subscription, no ads, ever REQUIRES iOS 17 OR LATER. Designed for iPhone and iPad. Compatible with Apple Silicon Mac.