Thorium Reader vs Akoue

Looking for an app where you can bring all your ebooks, comics and manga in one place? That’s what we built Thorium Reader for. Read it your way Everyone’s different, that’s why we want you to be fully in control: • Adjust text size, switch between color schemes with themes and control spacing. • 10+ fonts available, including specialized ones. • You prefer audio? Listen to any ebook, whenever you want. We’ll remember your preference. • Zoom into comics, manga and magazines. • Add bookmarks with notes. • Use the built-in iOS dictionary and translation features, even offline. • Tweak your reading experience with reading options. Bring your own books A single bookshelf and reading application where you can bring all your content: • Download free books, borrow from your library or buy from your favorite retailer. • Support for ebooks, documents, comics and manga. • Import EPUB, PDF and CBZ files. • Support for Readium LCP, used by thousands of libraries and retailers. Thorium Reader is built by EDRLab, a non-profit dedicated to open standards, reading and accessibility.

Akoue keeps the books you already own in one collection on iPhone and iPad: audiobooks and text together, in order. Folders of MP3s, M4B files and archives from your home server become a library with authors, series, narrators and chapters. With Pro, books move to your own iCloud, not someone else's cloud. Nothing to buy again. A FOLDER IS A BOOK • CD1/CD2 discs, numbered file names, tags: Akoue assembles them into one book with chapters in the right order. • Garbled titles from old encodings are repaired in one tap, with a preview and undo. • Chapters come from M4B, tags and cue files; the cover from a tag, a file next door or the folder. None at all? Akoue draws one. • ZIP archives unpack themselves, and non-Latin file names inside survive. • Importing again never creates duplicates; a compilation is split into separate books. • Audio plays without conversion: mp3, m4a, m4b, aac, flac, wav, aiff, alac, opus. The text edition of the same book sits next to it: epub, fb2, md and pdf in the built-in reader; txt, rtf, doc, docx in the system viewer. A PLAYER FOR BOOKS, NOT MUSIC • A hundred files play as one book; the position never gets lost between files. • Separate skip-back and skip-forward intervals; after a pause the book rewinds on its own, further the longer you were away. • Speed 0.5×–3× without distorting the voice. • Sleep timer: end of chapter, gentle fade-out, position rewind. Counts listening time or real minutes. Shake the phone and the countdown starts over, even with the screen off. • Bookmarks with notes you can search and jump to. • Finished a volume? The next one in the series starts by itself. A COLLECTION IN ORDER • Authors with pen names, narrators, nested series, a genre tree, tags and smart shelves. • Twelve sort orders and nineteen filters. Search forgives the wrong keyboard layout and transliteration. • Several narrations of one book are normal: your choice of narrator is remembered. • Every field is editable, the original file tags stay visible, and "Restore original" is always one tap away. • The make-up of a book is editable too: name a file, drag files into order, drop a stray one from the book, rename and move chapters. WHEREVER YOU LISTEN • Apple Watch: a book travels to your watch and plays without the iPhone — on headphones, and on models with a speaker through it too. • Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets with buttons, Control Center, the Action button, Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight. • CarPlay: your library and Now Playing without unlocking the phone. AKOUE PRO, FOR THE BIG COLLECTION Buy once for good, or yearly. Family Sharing either way. • Move to iCloud: keep only what you are listening to on the phone; the rest waits in your iCloud Drive and plays on tap, downloading chapter by chapter. A local file is never deleted until the cloud copy is confirmed. • Sync between iPhone and iPad: position, bookmarks, catalog edits, listening history. If a device moves back by more than a minute, the app asks instead of deciding for you. • Bulk cleanup: move everything you have finished in one action, with a preview of how many gigabytes you get back. • Silence skipping and volume leveling. • Author merge: "Tolkien, J. R. R." and "J.R.R. Tolkien" become one person. • Statistics and a year in review, author profiles, four extra themes and your own accent color for each. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. The app itself does not go online: Apple services handle the network. • Everything on the device works offline. The catalog exports to JSON and CSV; a backup is a single file. • The free version is not a trial: no limit on books, no time limit. WHAT AKOUE DOES NOT DO It does not sell or download books, look them up online or open DRM-protected Audible files (AAX). Interface in English, Russian, German, Spanish and French. Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/