Sandbook vs Flowerbed

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

Flowerbed is where the things that inspire you finally stay found. Save anything the moment you see it. A link, a photo, a video, a screenshot, a note. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, articles, or straight from your camera roll. It lands in your garden and it is yours to keep. Every save becomes a memory you can actually search. Flowerbed reads what you save, writes a caption, pulls the colors, tags the mood, transcribes videos, and summarizes long articles. Then you find things the way you remember them, by meaning, by color, by the feeling you were chasing, instead of scrolling forever trying to recall where you put it. Free, every feature included. Save without limits, get titles, your own tags, and the color palette of every image, plus semantic search across everything you have collected, automatic tags, video transcripts, article summaries, and smart collections that fill themselves. Made for people who collect visual references and hate losing them. Native, fast, and quiet by design. The content is the gallery. Flowerbed is just the wall it hangs on.