Listen 2 Reader vs Audiobookify

Listen2 runs neural text-to-speech directly on your iPhone or iPad without connecting to cloud services. No subscription or accounts — just a 7 day free trial and then a one-time purchase. Most text-to-speech apps either use the tried and true system voices or require monthly payments for cloud processing. Listen2 runs neural voice models locally using your iOS device's CPU and Apple Neural Engine, giving you natural-sounding speech without ongoing costs or privacy tradeoffs. WHAT MAKES LISTEN2 DIFFERENT Multi-Voice Engines, One App Piper provides reliable neural voices across 13 languages. Supertonic offers a fresh take on a voice engine — flow-matching models running on Apple's Neural Engine via CoreML for natural rhythm and expressive speech. Choose from 100+ voices in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Hindi, Vietnamese, Swedish and Hungarian. More coming. Voice Tuning Adjust the model parameters of any voice to suit your preferences. Save presets to switch between profiles. Preview pronunciation rules before saving them. Import Anything PDF, EPUB, DOCX, DAISY, markdown, plain text, clipboard, or web articles. Share from Safari and Listen2 extracts the article text. Paywalled content works (even sites on which other major TTS apps fail) when shared from a browser where you are logged in. Machine Learning Word Sync CTC forced alignment matches audio to text at the word level. Watch each word highlight as it is spoken — across Latin and non-Latin scripts alike. Highlighting engine newly re-build to be lean and efficient that's dramatically easier on your battery life. Smart Document Reading Multi-column layout handling, footnote filtering (for PDF files), hyphenated word rejoining. AI Vision for scanned PDFs. Full EPUB, DOCX, and DAISY support. Figure Descriptions On-device AI vision generates spoken descriptions of figures, charts, and photos as you listen. For non-English documents, descriptions translate automatically via Apple's on-device Translation framework. (Works with EPUB and PDF as a first roll-out) Pronunciation Rules Fix how any word is spoken without changing display text. Rules for names, terms, or abbreviations. Live preview before saving. Built-in presets for footnote markers. Global or per-document. Doesn't break highlighting. True Offline Privacy Processing, normalization, and synthesis all happen on-device. Documents never leave your phone. No uploads, account, or tracking. FEATURES - 100+ neural voices across 13 languages, plus dozens of Apple system voices - 3+ engines: Piper (broad language support), Supertonic (high-fidelity CoreML, flow-matching models), and Kokoro. Apple system voices offer efficient, quality options if using enhanced or premium models. - Voice tuning with saveable presets - Word-by-word or sentence highlighting - PDF, EPUB, DOCX, DAISY, TXT, Markdown support - AI figure descriptions with auto-translation (PDF and EPUB support) - Collections with intros, cover art, and auto-advance - Web Article Collections — batch articles into an auto-playing queue - Clipboard import and Siri shortcut support - 0.5x to 2.5x playback speed (Kokoro supports up to 1.4x because of real-time constraint) - Background playback with lock screen controls - Import from Files, links, Share Extension, or other apps - Export any document as a plain-text file from the library - Pronunciation rules with live preview - Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic fonts - Full VoiceOver support with rotor navigation and Magic Tap - Elapsed and remaining time in now playing & reader view. WHO IT'S FOR - Commuters turning drive time into learning time - Students reviewing papers and textbooks - Professionals handling confidential documents privately - VoiceOver users looking for a fully accessible TTS reader - Readers with dyslexia who benefit from audio-visual sync - Anyone tired of TTS subscriptions One-time purchase. 7-day free trial. No subscriptions.

Read your EPUBs, or listen to them, with Audiobookify’s on-device, offline neural voices. Experience multi-voice narration for your books. Read in a clean, customizable reader, or pick up listening where you left off with natural neural voices that run entirely on your device. Every model is optimized for efficiency, so you get great battery life, cool thermals and reliable background playback. Optimized for iOS 26 and 27. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK • On-device neural text-to-speech: once a voice is downloaded, narration works fully offline and nothing you read is sent to a server • Multiple engines and voices: Orate (our best expressive model, Supporter only), Supertonic (30+ languages) and Kokoro (English), plus every Apple system voice and your Personal Voice • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting that follows along as it reads • Double-tap any sentence to start listening from there • Scroll freely while it reads, then re-center or jump to where you are • Background playback with lock-screen, Control Center and CarPlay controls, so you can keep listening with the screen off • Adjustable speaking speed and pauses between sentences, saved as listening presets • Resumes where you left off and continues seamlessly across chapters INTELLIGENT CASTING (SUPPORTER) • Multi-voice narration: dialogue is read in character voices while your narrator reads the rest • Who speaks each line is worked out entirely on your device • Choose a narrator, male character dialogue, and female character dialogue (custom model download required) • Analyze the whole book or chapter by chapter, with each story cast separately in short-story collections • Results are saved per book, so cast listening works offline A READER YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN • Clean, distraction-free EPUB reading (TXT and Markdown also supported) • Choose your font, text size, line spacing, margins and color theme • Bookmark any sentence and find it again by chapter or by most recent • Search inside any book, or use Intelligent Search to find passages by meaning (English) • Table of contents, chapter navigation and progress tracking • Catch Me Up: on-device recaps of what you’ve read so far • RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) speed-reading mode PRONUNCIATION THAT GETS IT RIGHT • Text replacements to fix names and abbreviations before they’re spoken • Pronunciation overrides using IPA for precise control • Smart handling of acronyms and all-caps text YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Import EPUBs from Files or other apps • Bring in fan fiction as EPUBs via URL import • Organize books into collections • Optional iCloud sync for reading progress, bookmarks, library and preferences • Home Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts to continue your book • Reading analytics for your daily and all-time reading and listening PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Speech is synthesized on your device; your books are never uploaded for narration • Intelligent Casting, Intelligent Search and recaps all run on your device • No account, no ads, no tracking One optional subscription, Audiobookify Supporter, unlocks Orate, our best expressive model, Intelligent Casting and premium voices, and supports ongoing development. More voices and models will be added in the future. All core features are free forever. Download once, listen offline, read your way. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/therysin/Audiobookify/blob/main/PrivacyPolicy.md