LingRoll vs 静静听书
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LingRoll
This app offers a comprehensive reading and listening experience for e-books. It supports various file formats, provides high-quality text-to-speech synthesis with customizable playback, and features advanced customization for the reading interface. Manage your library efficiently with powerful file management tools.
- Supports TXT, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF formats
- High-quality TTS with Azure/Edge/Mimo engines
- Customizable reading interface and themes
- Advanced file management and import options
- Background playback and widget support
- Note-taking and bookmarking
- Reading statistics and habit tracking
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LingRoll is an all-in-one reading app built for people who love both reading and listening. It supports multiple ebook formats and advanced TTS features, giving you a smooth, flexible, and detailed reading experience. Core Features • Format support: TXT, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF • Smart listening: System TTS, Azure/Edge TTS, and MiMo TTS • Professional layout: Fully customizable reading interface • File management: Folder-based library, sorting, search, and recent imports • Statistics: Track reading and listening habits Detailed Features 1. File Support • Supports TXT, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF. DRM-protected files are not supported • Auto-detects text encoding and supports manual encoding selection • Extracts encrypted or unencrypted RAR, ZIP, and 7Z archives • PDF text extraction and OCR for scanned documents • Import via iTunes File Sharing, iCloud Drive, or WiFi transfer 2. Listening • Built-in iOS TTS voices • Azure/Edge TTS and MiMo TTS neural voices • Natural language recognition with voice matching for Azure/Edge TTS • Narration and dialogue detection with separate voices • TTS text replacement for pronunciation, terms, and symbols • Long-paragraph optimization for smoother playback • Auto skip trailing silence • Custom background music, speed, pitch, and volume • Sleep timer • Listen while reading, scroll freely, or follow the playing paragraph • Home screen display during background playback • Progress styles: highlight, underline, line-by-line highlight, sentence underline • Headphone controls and custom lock screen display • Pre-download full-book audio • Offline TTS audio duration statistics 3. Reading • System fonts and custom font installation • Adjustable spacing, margins, first-line indent, hanging indent, and more • Custom background image with optional scroll-follow effect • Custom themes with RGBA colors • Chinese conversion between Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong Traditional, and Taiwan Traditional • Tencent Translation API support • Auto scroll/auto page turn with adjustable speed • Auto reading modes: pixel scroll, line-by-line display, sentence underline • TOC parsing for TXT, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3 • Original annotation display for EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 4. Bookmarks and Notes • Categorized bookmarks • Notes with underline, wavy line, dashed line, double strikethrough, redaction line, border, and background color • Custom color for each note • Tap bookmarks or notes to jump • Export notes as Markdown or TXT 5. File Management • Real folder-based book management • Sort by name, size, date, type, or reading duration • Pin files and set folders to top, bottom, or hidden • Read covers from EPUB/MOBI/AZW3, or update via web search/photos • Rename files using built-in book titles • Search files, folders, and full text while reading • Recent imports for quick access 6. Format Conversion • Convert EPUB/MOBI/AZW3/PDF to TXT • Convert TXT to EPUB • Supports Chinese conversion and encoding selection • Preserves original TOC structure 7. Statistics • Daily reading/listening duration • Reading heatmap • Book progress • Offline TTS audio duration 8. Security • Password and Touch ID/Face ID protection 9. Migration and Sync • Export/import reading history and personal settings • Export single or multiple themes
静静听书
This app allows you to read and listen to your local TXT and EPUB files. Enjoy customizable reading settings, offline text-to-speech with adjustable speed, and immersive multi-character audio experiences with custom voices for subscribers. Your data is saved locally.
- Import TXT and EPUB files
- Offline text-to-speech
- Adjustable reading settings
- Multi-character voice customization
- Local data storage
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静静听书是一款本地书籍阅读与听书应用,支持导入你自行持有或合法使用的 TXT、EPUB 文件。导入后自动保存到书架,在同一应用中完成阅读、章节浏览与听书播放。 应用支持离线语音合成听书,可调节语速,并从上次进度继续。你也可以根据自己的习惯调整字体、字号、阅读背景和夜间模式,获得更舒适的阅读体验。订阅后,还可开启引语角色归属识别,并为不同角色自定义语音,让听书体验更沉浸。 应用提供自动续费订阅,用于解锁高级功能。当前提供月订阅和年订阅两种订阅周期。订阅价格和结算规则以 App Store 中显示的实际价格为准。订阅将在每个订阅周期结束时自动续费,除非你在当前周期结束前至少 24 小时取消订阅。你可以在购买后前往 Apple账户设置中管理或取消订阅。 你导入的书籍内容和阅读数据默认保存在设备本地;如果你在使用中遇到问题,或有改进建议,可以通过应用内“设置 - 帮助与反馈”联系我们。 隐私政策:https://book.nature-lang.cn/privacy 服务条款:https://book.nature-lang.cn/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 静静听书 at Free against LingRoll's $4.99. LingRoll's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (86% vs 71%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
静静听书 is free to download; LingRoll costs $4.99 up front. 静静听书 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. LingRoll asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LingRoll against 5.0 for 静静听书. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of LingRoll's written reviews are positive against 71% of 静静听书's.
LingRoll ships an update weekly, 静静听书 every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LingRoll | 静静听书 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #73 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 289 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yipeng Huang | 文豪 魏 |
Customer experience
LingRoll
静静听书
In-app purchases
LingRoll
No in-app purchases
静静听书
- 月订阅3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- 年订阅3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- 永久会员2 variants$12.99







