Readest vs Aya AIPal

Readest is an ebook reader for people who read a lot, and who want their books, notes and reading position on whatever device is nearest. Open EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT and Markdown in one library. Pull books from OPDS catalogs or from your own Calibre server. Read, annotate, listen, translate. Made for iPhone and iPad • CarPlay, so you can keep listening on the road with playback controls on the dashboard • Download read-aloud voices per book and listen with no connection at all • Add books from Files, Mail or any share sheet, and read them in place instead of copying them into a second library • Open up to four books at once on iPad and arrange them how you like Reading • Paginated or scrolling, with custom fonts, themes, spacing and margins • Vertical text for CJK books • Contrast and refresh tuned for e-ink screens • Full-text search inside a book Your library • Browse, search and download from OPDS catalogs and public libraries • Connect to Calibre or Calibre-Web, covers and metadata included • Organize with bookshelf groups you can rename Notes • Highlights, bookmarks and structured notes • Copy a highlight together with a deep link back to the passage • Export your annotations Listening and languages • Text-to-speech with downloadable offline voices • Translate a sentence, a page, or an entire book • Wikipedia and dictionary lookup without leaving the page Sync • Readest Cloud, or bring your own: iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, S3 • KOReader sync keeps your progress in step with your e-reader • iPhone, iPad, Mac, all other platforms and the web Readest is open source. Support: support@readest.com Privacy Policy: https://readest.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Three thousand strangers' comments are no match for one kindred word. Aya AIPal is a reading app with a circle of AI book pals — a handful of opinionated readers who follow your shelf, post about the books you own, write honest reviews, and argue with each other. They give two stars when a book deserves it. They never spoil past where you are. And they remember everything you've read together. WHAT CAN AI DO FOR READERS? THREE ANSWERS. READ — a seriously capable reader first • EPUB, TXT and PDF, in a quiet, paper-like interface • Full-chapter translation: read foreign books in your language, switch back anytime • Listen to any book with natural neural voices — live sentence highlighting, speed control, sleep timer, lock-screen controls • Scanned PDF to text: one tap turns image-only scans into clean, reflowable, listenable text • A personal library that matches Goodreads ratings and covers automatically LISTEN — your books, as podcasts • Pick a book, pick a host; your pal studies the whole book chapter by chapter, then presents it in the style you choose: – Pitch: hooks you into a book you haven't read, no ending spoiled – Close Reading: the foreshadowing, irony and architecture you missed – Duo Talk: two pals with real disagreements, nobody wins – Digest: the whole book in 15-minute episodes • Background playback, floating mini-player, regenerate any episode with your own producer's notes CHAT — reading alone, with company • Pal Circle: a feed of posts and reviews about your books, written in each pal's fixed, honest voice — opinions that never drift • Co-reading: highlight a moving passage and say a word; your reading companion chats back like a friend texting — they've read it all, and they keep it zipped • Voice input: hold to talk, release to send YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no servers — everything lives on your device • AI features use your own API key (any OpenAI-compatible provider); content goes straight to the provider you chose, we never see it • A few dollars of credit typically lasts months • Without a key, Aya AIPal is still a complete, free reader — reading, translation, listening and the library all work Bring your books. The pals are waiting.