Comparison

Audiora Stories vs Duodecimo

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

Head to head
About

Audiora Stories

Easily transform your written text into audiobook-style spoken stories. Add custom cover images and organize your creations into books and chapters. Enjoy hands-free listening with background audio support, perfect for any activity.

Highlights
  • Create audiobook-style stories from text
  • Organize stories into books and chapters
  • Add cover images
  • Background audio playback
  • Multi-language support
  • Sample content included
Features
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Welcome to Audiora Stories! Audiora Stories is the easiest way to create audiobook-style spoken stories from your own text. Simply provide your story in text format, optionally add a cover image, and let Audiora Stories read it aloud using built-in text-to-speech technology. Features: • Create audiobook-style stories from your own text • Organize stories into books and chapters • Add cover images to personalize your stories • Continue listening while using other apps with Background Audio support • Auto-advance to the next chapter automatically • Support for multiple languages, including English, Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin • Sample book and chapters included to help you get started Whether you're listening while exercising, driving, commuting, or doing household chores, Audiora Stories lets you enjoy your stories hands-free. Create your personal audiobook library and bring your stories to life with Audiora Stories.

About

Duodecimo

Access a vast library of 1,009 classic books for offline reading on your iPhone and iPad. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, spacing, and appearance. Import additional public domain books and utilize helpful reading guides and note-taking features.

Highlights
  • 1,009 classic books included
  • Offline reading capability
  • Import from Project Gutenberg
  • Customizable reading interface
  • Searchable notes and highlights
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Reading progress tracking
Features
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A personal library, ready when you are. Duodecimo brings 1,009 classic works to your iPhone and iPad. Every bundled book, its individual painted cover, and its reviewed reading guides are included for offline reading. No app account, advertising, paid content, or subscription is required. Find a familiar favorite or discover something new. Book introductions, estimated reading times, and curated reading paths help you choose. Continue Reading keeps your current books close in Grid or List, while Want to Read gives the next ones a place of their own. Add more books from Project Gutenberg. Search its catalog by title, author, or edition number, choose a language, and review the edition before downloading. Supported plain-text editions join your personal library with locally generated covers. Catalog and book downloads require an internet connection; downloaded books can then be read offline. Settle into Book, Scroll, or Study, with fonts, spacing, margins, and appearance choices that suit you. Search the text, mark a page, highlight a passage, and keep your thoughts in a searchable notebook. Return to the source from your notes, export your commonplace book, or make a portable reading backup. For bundled classics, Before You Begin offers context for every book. Who Is This Again? helps you recall people you have encountered, with reminders tied to passages you have already reached. These reviewed guides work offline without Apple Intelligence. On supported devices with Apple Intelligence ready, optional passage explanations and recaps use Apple's on-device models. Generated reading help can be inaccurate. Personal imports include the ordinary reader tools and on-device “What just happened?” recaps when Apple Intelligence is available. Curated Classics Companion guides and selected-passage explanations remain exclusive to bundled books. Listen with Apple's installed system voices, choose a pace, set a sleep timer, and return to your saved listening place. Imported editions use a suitable installed voice for their language, or let you choose an installed voice explicitly. Set an optional daily reading target, look back over your reading calendar, and use the Continue Reading widget to open your book. Optional iCloud continuity synchronizes supported reading data for bundled books. Personal imports and their reading data stay outside this synchronization. Portable reading backups include personal reading data and edition identifiers, but not book text; restoring an import may require the same edition again. Repair unavailable imports from saved source text when possible, or delete an imported book and its associated local reading data. The bundled collection includes all six annotated volumes of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the collected works of the American novelist Winston Churchill, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War in Lionel Giles's annotated translation. The collection uses historical editions in the public domain in the United States. Source, edition, and license details are available in the app. Historical literature may contain mature themes, violence, and language reflecting its time. The interface supports English and nine additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Books, edition-specific source notes, and written reading guides retain their source language.

Screenshots

Audiora Stories4 screens
Duodecimo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Duodecimo at 5.0 against Audiora Stories's 4.6. Duodecimo also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Audiora Stories's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

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

Duodecimo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Audiora Stories ships an update every 2 weeks, Duodecimo daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Audiora Stories versus Duodecimo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudiora StoriesDuodecimo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (9 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB532 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperDaniel Fu Keung KwanJay Welshofer

Customer experience

Audiora Stories

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Duodecimo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Audiora Stories

No in-app purchases

None

Duodecimo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Audiora Stories free?
Audiora Stories is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Duodecimo free?
Duodecimo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Audiora Stories or Duodecimo?
Duodecimo is rated higher. Audiora Stories averages 4.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Duodecimo averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Audiora Stories or Duodecimo have ads?
Neither Audiora Stories nor Duodecimo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Audiora Stories or Duodecimo?
Audiora Stories ships an update every 2 weeks, and Duodecimo daily. Most recently, Audiora Stories was updated on November 8, 2026 and Duodecimo on November 6, 2026.

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