Sandbook vs Ghost Reader Live

Sandbook reads books, documents and articles aloud in natural voices that run on your iPhone or iPad. You can listen offline, nothing you read is uploaded, and there is no account and no ads. Press play, lock your screen and keep listening: on a walk, while you cook, or 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 - Web pages: paste a link, or tap Save to Sandbook in Safari, Chrome and other apps, and they wait in Listen Later - 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 - A book in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Hindi opens with a voice in its language - Powered by the open-source Kokoro 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 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, tap any sentence to read from there - Export a chapter or a whole book as one M4A audio file with chapter markers, or any text you type - Light, sepia and dark themes, fonts, text size and line spacing ACCESSIBILITY - 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. Questions or ideas: support@sandbook.app

Turn reading into listening — privately. Ghost Reader narrates PDFs, EPUBs, web articles, Markdown, and plain-text files with natural on-device voices. Import a document or paste a link, then listen while following the text in Focus mode. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY WITH YOU Narration is generated on your iPhone. Your documents, extracted text, and audio are not sent to our servers. No account is required. MADE FOR LISTENING • Follow along with sentence highlighting and auto-scroll • Pick a voice and adjust listening speed from 0.5× to 2× • Navigate to any part of a document and resume where you stopped • Use lock-screen and headphone play/pause controls when narration is ready • Set a sleep timer or export narration as an MP3 FREE TO START Enjoy 30 minutes of narration each day for free. Upgrade through the App Store for unlimited listening with Monthly or Lifetime Access. Requires iPhone 12 or newer. Privacy Policy: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/terms.html