Comparison

Easy Project Manager vs Sandbook

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Easy Project Manager

Features
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Easy Project Manager is the perfect solution for organizing and managing your projects with ease. Whether you're a student, professional, or just someone looking to streamline your tasks, Easy Project Manager offers a user-friendly interface and robust features to keep you on track. KEY FEATURES Project Creation and Management - Easily create and manage multiple projects. - Customise project names to suit your needs. Category Organisation - Organise your tasks into categories for better clarity. Assign different colours to categories for visual organisation. Task Management - Add, edit, and delete tasks within each category. - Mark tasks as completed with a simple checkbox.

About

Sandbook

This app converts text from various file formats, web pages, and images into natural-sounding speech. It offers offline listening, customizable playback speed, and pronunciation adjustments, making it ideal for hands-free consumption of written content.

Highlights
  • Offline text-to-speech
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, Word, web pages, and images
  • Natural Kokoro voices run locally
  • Customizable playback speed and pronunciation
  • CarPlay and lock screen controls
  • Export text and audiobooks
  • Accessibility features for dyslexia
Features
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Free, offline text to speech for iPhone and iPad: Sandbook reads aloud your EPUB books, PDFs (scanned ones too), Word documents and web pages in natural Kokoro voices that run on your device. No subscription, no account, no ads, no listening limits, and no internet needed to listen. Nothing you read is uploaded. Press play, lock your screen and keep listening, or carry on in the car with CarPlay. LISTEN TO WHAT YOU READ - EPUB, PDF, Word (.docx), TXT, RTF, Markdown and HTML files, from the Files app or any app's share sheet - Scanned PDFs: pages with no text are recognized on your device and read aloud - Web pages: paste a link, or tap Save to Sandbook in Safari, Chrome and other apps, and they wait in Listen Later - Screenshots and images: share a screenshot, a photo or a post's image to Sandbook and it reads the text - Printed pages: scan them with the camera or pick a photo - Your own text: type or paste it - A shelf of public-domain classics in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Hindi, with a short sample before you download NATURAL VOICES, ON YOUR DEVICE - 41 voices in American and British English, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Hindi, all included in the app - Plus beta voices in French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi and British English - A book in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Hindi opens with a voice in its language - Powered by the open-source Kokoro-82M model, running locally - Each spoken word is highlighted, so you can follow along - Speed from 0.5x to 2.5x; each book remembers its voice and speed - Pronunciations: tell Sandbook how to say a name or word, in every book or just one, and import or export your list as a CSV or Markdown file MADE FOR LONG LISTENING - Opens at the paragraph where you stopped - Lock screen controls with the chapter's progress and 15-second skips - CarPlay: continue your book, or pick one from your library or Listen Later - Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and a Play Sandbook control for Control Center and the Action button - Sleep timer: stop after a set time or at the end of the chapter - Continue Reading with Siri or the Shortcuts app READ CLOSELY, KEEP WHAT MATTERS - Select any text to look up a word or translate it - Bookmark passages and export them as a text or Markdown file - Search inside a book; in a PDF, the sentence being read is highlighted on the page, and you can tap any sentence to read from there - Turn a book into an audiobook: export a chapter or the whole book as one M4A file with chapter markers, or any text you type - Light, sepia and dark themes, fonts, text size and line spacing ACCESSIBILITY - For readers with dyslexia: follow each highlighted word as it is read, at the speed that suits you - VoiceOver, Voice Control, Switch Control, larger text and contrast improvements - The app is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Hindi PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your books, text and voices stay on your device. Sandbook never sends what you read to a server. GOOD TO KNOW - Requires iOS 18.2 or later. Voices run on iPhone XS, iPhone XR and later, and on iPads with an A12 chip or later. - Also on the Mac (Apple silicon). Questions or ideas: support@sandbook.app

Screenshots

Easy Project Manager4 screens
Sandbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sandbook at Free against Easy Project Manager's $0.99. Easy Project Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.2). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sandbook is free to download; Easy Project Manager costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Easy Project Manager versus Sandbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Project ManagerSandbook
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.7 (208 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—85.4% of reviews
Number of ratings—208 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB144 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHardi DarweishSmashMelon LLC

In-app purchases

None

Easy Project Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Sandbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Easy Project Manager free?
Easy Project Manager costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sandbook free?
Sandbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Easy Project Manager or Sandbook have ads?
Neither Easy Project Manager nor Sandbook shows ads.

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