Comparison

LingRoll lite vs 听了么

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LingRoll lite

This app offers a comprehensive reading and listening experience for ebooks. It supports various file formats, allows for customizable text-to-speech narration, and provides robust file management and annotation tools.

Highlights
  • Supports multiple ebook formats (TXT, EPUB, MOBI, PDF)
  • Advanced text-to-speech with customizable voices and playback
  • Flexible reading layouts and font customization
  • File management with import/export and cloud sync
  • Annotation and bookmarking tools
  • Format conversion between ebook types
Features
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LingRoll brings reading and listening together with flexible ebook layouts, rich TTS tools, and practical file management. 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 • 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 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 • Portrait and landscape layouts, rotation controls, and a page-curl option 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 • Browse WebDAV folders; upload from your library or iCloud; download to a chosen folder • Batch download/delete, rename, and move remote items 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 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 • Add multiple WebDAV accounts and choose the active account • Sync the latest 100 reading records; choose a sync frequency or manual sync • Prompt to jump to a newer reading position from another device • Reading sync excludes books; transfer them with WebDAV file management Lite vs. Pro: The following features require Pro: • Microsoft Azure/Edge and MiMo TTS • Narration/dialogue detection and separate voices • Language-aware voice selection • TTS audio export • Offline TTS duration stats • Optimized long-paragraph playback • Automatic trailing-silence skip • Custom listening background music • Line-by-line highlights and sentence underlines • Font import and installation • TXT-to-EPUB conversion • Chinese conversion (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong, Taiwan) • Text translation and Tencent Translation • Reading statistics • Password and Touch ID/Face ID protection • WebDAV sync and file management • Backup/import of reading history, personal settings, theme colors

About

听了么

Features
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专注本地有声书与电子书管理与播放,支持导入 EPUB/PDF/文本,提供目录浏览、进度记录与后台播放,界面简洁易用。

Screenshots

LingRoll lite4 screens
听了么4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 听了么 at 5.0 against LingRoll lite's 4.0. LingRoll lite's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

听了么 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
LingRoll lite versus 听了么: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLingRoll lite听了么
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYipeng Huang上海洛歪歪科技有限公司

Customer experience

LingRoll lite

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative7.1%

听了么

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LingRoll lite

No in-app purchases

None

听了么

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LingRoll lite free?
LingRoll lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 听了么 free?
听了么 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LingRoll lite or 听了么?
听了么 is rated higher. LingRoll lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while 听了么 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do LingRoll lite or 听了么 have ads?
Neither LingRoll lite nor 听了么 shows ads.

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