Novelwave vs Lex Reader

Novelwave plays the audiobooks you already own. Bring in your DRM-free files, organize them on shelves, and pick up exactly where you left off, on your iPhone or in the car. IMPORT FROM FILES OR ICLOUD DRIVE • M4B, M4A, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, Ogg Opus and MP4 • Add many files at once, then keep them separate or merge the parts into one book • Open audiobooks straight from Files or other apps, or share several at once • Books in iCloud Drive stay there until you press play, so they don’t fill up your iPhone EVERYTHING A LISTENER NEEDS • Any speed from 0.5× to 6×, in 0.05× steps • A sleep timer from 5 to 90 minutes, or at the end of a chapter or file, counting down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Skip back and forward from 5 to 45 seconds, each set separately • Rewind a few seconds when you pause, so you never lose the thread • Jump to any chapter in books that have them • Bookmarks with names and notes, saved in one tap • Picks up again after calls, Siri and alarms • Control playback from the Lock Screen, Control Center, AirPlay devices and your headphones CARPLAY, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • In CarPlay, continue where you left off or browse your shelves, then change chapters and speed from Now Playing • Ask Siri to resume, skip, change chapters, set the speed, add a bookmark or start a sleep timer • Shortcuts actions for playback, chapters, speed, bookmarks and the sleep timer • Find your audiobooks in Spotlight SHELVES INSIDE SHELVES • Group books by author, series or mood, as deep as you like • Sort by title, date added or date updated • Filter by in progress, not started, finished or downloaded • Search across titles, authors and shelves EDIT EVERY DETAIL • Change the title, author, description, genre, composer and year • Add covers from Photos, Files or the clipboard, even for books still in iCloud PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Progress, shelves and bookmarks sync through your own iCloud account • Novelwave can only see its own folder in iCloud Drive, nothing else • No account to create AND MUCH MORE • Now Playing widgets for your Home Screen, plus Play/Pause and Sleep Timer controls for Control Center • Export your whole library to any folder in Files • Light, dark or system appearance, and a Minimal style without illustrations • Two alternate app icons, including the original Novelwave icon • VoiceOver support Your next chapter starts here.

READ BOOKS THE WAY YOU WANT TO - Dark mode (EPUB) reader with scroll, paginated, blitz, and bilingual modes - PDF reader with bookmark & search functionality (OCR) - Fully customizable font styles, sizes, etc. - Make highlights, notes, etc. - Automatically sync progress across devices KICK BACK WITH AMBIENT AUDIOBOOKS - 30,000+ human & AI-narrated audiobooks - Text-to-audio synchronization (read along) - Multiple narrators options (solo, dramatic & group readings) - Ambient mode (choose between different ambient sounds) - Adjust playback speed (0.5x - 3x) and set sleep timer BUILD THE LIBRARY OF YOUR DREAMS - Lightning fast search across 6,000,000+ books (search title, author, genre, subject) - Import reading data from Goodreads, Storygraph, or a generic CSV file - Personalized home page (browse audiobook narrators, quotes, opening lines, illustrations) - Browse hundreds of curated bookshelves - Create and share your own shelves - Upload your own books/audiobooks (EPUB, PDF, MP3) with automatic metadata enrichment (cover, (cover, title, author, publication date) SOCIAL FEATURES - Activity feed displaying other users’ books, shelves, highlights & notes - Add collaborators to help build shelves - Invite 3 friends for 1 month of Lex Premium - Track reading progress, streaks, etc. SYNC EVERYWHERE Your reading activity syncs across devices. Start a book on your laptop, pick it up on your phone, and switch from the book to the audiobook whenever you please. INCLUDED FOR FREE: - 6,000,000+ books & 30,000+ audiobooks - Ambient audiobook listening - Text-to-audio synchronization - Paginated and Scroll reading modes - Upload your own books (EPUB and PDF) - Personalized book recommendations - Create, share, and save shelves, highlights, notes - Follow and connect with other users FOR POWER USERS (PREMIUM): - Lex AI: ask about any book, get better recommendations, and have it take app-specific actions on your behalf - Offline mode: download books/audiobooks to read anywhere (no internet required) - Higher upload limits: extra space for EPUBs, PDFs, and MP3s - Bilingual mode: get in-page translations to your preferred language (21 languages available) - Blitz mode: word-level / sentence-level Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (200-750 WPM) - PDF to EPUB conversion: turn PDFs into proper Ebooks - Verified badge: profile checkmark PERFECT FOR - Bookworms - Classical literature lovers - History buffs - Autodidacts - High school / college students - Book clubs SUBSCRIPTION INFO - Lex Premium (Monthly): $9.99/month - Free Trial - Lex Premium (Yearly): $95.90/year ($7.99/month) - Free Trial Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Apple ID Account Settings. Terms of Service: https://lex-books.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://lex-books.com/privacy Support: https://lex-books.com/support Lex is built by book lovers, for book lovers. We believe reading should be accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere. And we’re just getting started.