Comparison

Text Adventure vs Volume

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

Head to head
About

Text Adventure

Features
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PageWalker turns 28 timeless classics into adventures you play, books you read and stories you hear, in 13 languages. PLAY THE CLASSICS Step into Treasure Island, Sherlock Holmes, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and many more. Every adventure has 60 scenes and three choices at each turn. Choose well and the story goes on; choose badly and the page burns. LEARN WHILE YOU READ Tap any word or sentence to see it in your language, right on the page. Save new words to your Vault and practice them in Learn. TALK WITH THE HEROES Ask Captain Nemo, Sherlock Holmes or Alice about their story, by text or by voice. Up to 20 messages a day. LISTEN ALONG Built-in narration reads the page aloud and highlights each word as it goes. READ YOUR WAY Pick your text size, day or night mode and the language you know best. PLAY WITHOUT SIGHT Audio-first mode reads each page and its three choices aloud; say 1, 2 or 3 to choose. With VoiceOver, double-tap any sentence to hear it in your language. Setup steps are read out as you go. 13 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. PAGEWALKER PRO Pro unlocks every adventure and classic, tap-to-translate, chat with the heroes and narration. Choose Pro Weekly or Pro Yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://pagewalker.website/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Volume

Features
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Volume turns the books you own and the articles you find on the web into one private, offline library โ€” and reads them aloud with a natural neural voice, generated entirely on your device. SAVE ARTICLES FROM YOUR BROWSER Found something worth reading? Tap Share in Safari or another app and save it to your library as an article โ€” a clean, offline copy of the text, ready to read or listen to like any book. File it straight into a collection if you like. IMPORT YOUR BOOKS Bring your own EPUB, Markdown, plain-text, and RTF files. Books and articles land in one searchable library, whatever their source. READ COMFORTABLY A reflowable reader with themes, adjustable typography, instant resume, chapter navigation, and footnotes in place โ€” fully offline. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Highlight passages and add notes that survive font changes. See them gathered for one book or across your whole library, and tag them by topic to find them again. LISTEN WITH READ-ALONG Tap play and your book or article is read aloud by an on-device neural voice, with the current passage highlighted as it is spoken. Figures, tables, code, and equations are announced instead of silently skipped, and short pauses mark headings, quotations, and section breaks. Narration follows chapter jumps, keeps your place, works like an audiobook from the lock screen โ€” and by default is kept, so going back or listening again is instant. IN THE CAR With CarPlay, pick a recent book on your car's screen and narration picks up where you left off, with chapters a tap away. TAKE IT WITH YOU Export a narrated book as an M4B audiobook with chapter markers that plays in any audiobook app, or export the original file you imported. Books you finish are marked automatically, and Clean Up clears out what you're done with in one step. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No ads. No tracking. No telemetry. Your books, your articles, and your reading never leave your device โ€” narration is generated locally, and once something is saved, everything works in airplane mode. The User Guide is pre-loaded, so you can hear read-along the moment the app opens โ€” and it doubles as a seven-chapter tour of importing, reading, and listening. Narration voices are synthesized speech (Kyutai pocket-tts, CC-BY voices); quality of pronunciation can vary on unusual words and names.

Screenshots

Text Adventure4 screens
Volume4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Volume at none against Text Adventure's 2. Volume also leads on ads (none vs shown). Text Adventure's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Text Adventure sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Volume asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Adventure ships an update every 3 weeks, Volume every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Text Adventure versus Volume: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText AdventureVolume
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size593 MB23 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFurkan Sabri CETINKAYAStructured Fun, LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Text Adventure

Subscriptions2
  • PageWalker Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • PageWalker Pro Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
None

Volume

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Adventure free?
Text Adventure is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Volume free?
Volume is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Adventure or Volume have ads?
Text Adventure shows ads; Volume does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Adventure or Volume?
Text Adventure ships an update every 3 weeks, and Volume every 2 weeks. Most recently, Text Adventure was updated on November 7, 2026 and Volume on November 10, 2026.

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