Comparison

Narrable vs Readmon

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

Head to head
About

Narrable

Experience audiobooks with a full cast of distinct voices for each character. Import your own EPUB or PDF files and have them read aloud with synchronized text highlighting. Enjoy offline listening and adjustable playback speeds.

Highlights
  • Full-cast narration with distinct character voices
  • Import and read EPUB and PDF files
  • Synchronized text highlighting with audio
  • Adjustable playback speed (0.5x to 2x)
  • Offline listening with downloaded books
  • Tap any word to start listening
Features
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Read Aloud Books, PDFs & Text Books where every character has their own voice. Narrable is an audiobook app with a catalogue of full-cast recordings, and it will read your own books too. Open Discover and start listening, or bring an EPUB or PDF and have it voiced. A full cast, not one voice Most audiobooks are one narrator doing everybody. Narrable gives each character their own voice, so dialogue sounds like people talking to each other rather than one person reading both halves. And you choose. Every book is made both ways, so you can switch between the full cast and a single narrator while you listen, mid-sentence, and it picks up exactly where you were. Your own books Import an EPUB or a PDF and Narrable reads who speaks in it, gives each character a voice, and plays you a scene before it makes the rest. Your files stay private to you. While you listen Text highlights in time with the audio, so you can follow along or put the phone down. Speed from 0.5x to 2x with the pitch held, so voices keep their character. Tap any word to start there, skip, rewind, and pick up where you left off. Books download to the phone, so listening doesn't need a connection. Over a thousand voices. Nothing is recorded in a studio, and nothing is read by a person.

About

Readmon

Features
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Readmon reads the books you already own, out loud, in a voice that sounds like a person. On a night when your eyes are tired, or with your hands in the sink, the story keeps going. โ–  Ten AI voices that sound like people Not a robot. Choose from five female and five male voices. Add a reading style that fits the text โ€” novel, news โ€” and Readmon remembers which voice you used for each book. The AI voices support 31 languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Languages not on this list cannot be read by the AI voices. Chinese is not on the list. If the language you read is not on the list, please do not buy the AI voices. You can listen in that language with the system voices built into iOS, and everything else in the app is free. Dialogue is read in a different voice from the narration. When lines run back and forth, two voices take turns, so it sounds like a conversation. โ–  On your iPhone, with no internet The narration is generated entirely on your iPhone. It keeps working when the connection drops, and on a plane. You download a voice once. After that, no internet is needed. โ–  The files you already have TXT, EPUB and PDF, and comics too. 7z, CBZ, CBR, ZIP and RAR all open. Bring books in from Calibre-Web, OPDS, WebDAV, Dropbox or OneDrive. PDFs and scanned books are recognized on the device and read aloud as well. โ–  Comfortable while you read Sleep timer โ€” it stops on its own if you fall asleep Lock screen controls โ€” turn pages and pause without taking it out of your pocket Repeat a passage โ€” go back over the part you missed Pronunciation dictionary โ€” make names and unusual words sound the way you want Page-turn animation โ€” pages that turn like paper โ–  Not a subscription Buy the AI voices once and they stay yours. Nothing to cancel, nothing to pay again next month. Listen free for 30 minutes before you buy. Everything else works without buying anything.

Screenshots

Narrable4 screens
Readmon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Narrable at none against Readmon's shown. Narrable also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Narrable sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Readmon sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Narrable ships an update every 5 days, Readmon fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Narrable versus Readmon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNarrableReadmon
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterFortnightly
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS18.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size36 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAzam SuleimanMinhaeng Lee

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Narrable

Subscriptions4
  • Basic$7.991 Month
  • Narrable Reader Pro Plan$12.991 Month
  • Basic$69.991 Year
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  • Pro Plan - Yearly$109.991 Year
2 purchases

Readmon

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • AI Voice Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Narrable free?
Narrable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Readmon free?
Readmon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Narrable or Readmon have ads?
Readmon shows ads; Narrable does not.
Which is updated more often, Narrable or Readmon?
Narrable ships an update every 5 days, and Readmon fortnightly. Most recently, Narrable was updated on October 6, 2026 and Readmon on October 7, 2026.

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