Bloox vs Analects Reader

Bloox is the most intelligent way to listen to audiobooks — a beautiful, private player that lets you read along word-by-word, chat with your story, catch up on anything you missed, and keep track of every character. Bring your whole library, listen anywhere, and pick up right where you left off. CHAT WITH YOUR STORY (Beta) Confused about a plot twist? Forgot how two characters are connected? Just ask. Bloox answers questions about what you've heard so far — grounded in the book, with no spoilers ahead. READ ALONG AS YOU LISTEN Bloox transcribes your audiobook in real time and follows along with synchronized captions — sentence by sentence or word by word, karaoke-style. Tap any line to jump straight to that moment, or switch to an immersive full-screen caption view. KNOW EVERY CHARACTER Lost track of who's who? See every character in the current chapter, with descriptions and chapter-by-chapter tracking — so you always know who just walked into the room. WHAT DID I MISS? Got distracted, or someone started talking to you? Get an instant AI recap of what happened — key events and a clear "where we are now," so you never have to rewind blindly again. Generated on-device — no internet, nothing leaves your phone. BOOKMARKS THAT REMEMBER Save a moment and Bloox saves the context with it — an AI snapshot of what was happening, so your bookmarks actually mean something later. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF A home-screen widget shows a quick recap of where you stopped, so you're back in the story the second you press play. Smart rewind backs up automatically when you resume. BRING YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY Import from Audiobookshelf, Dropbox, your computer over Wi-Fi, Google Drive, iCloud, and local M4B/MP3 files. Automatic metadata and cover art included — and you can edit any detail yourself: title, author, narrator, series, or cover. SEE YOUR LISTENING Listening streaks, hours, session history, and per-session recaps — a beautiful picture of your reading life. CHAPTERS DONE RIGHT Reads embedded M4B chapters, CUE sheets, and multi-file books. No chapter data? Bloox generates smart chapters at the length you choose. BUILT FOR EVERY MOMENT Full CarPlay support for the road, Apple Watch controls on your wrist, and a gorgeous sleep timer designed for StandBy mode for bed. Adjustable speed (0.5×–3×), custom skip intervals, full chapter navigation, Lock Screen and Control Center controls, and hands-free control with Siri. PRIVATE BY DESIGN — AND YOU'RE IN CONTROL No account. No ads. No tracking. We never sell your data. The features that use the network — Book Chat and character lookup — are off by default: nothing is ever sent until you turn them on and explicitly say yes. Want total privacy? A single switch keeps everything — even anonymous analytics — on your device. Your library, your listening, and your choices stay yours. WORKS FULLY OFFLINE — AI INCLUDED No connection? No problem. Play, navigate, and read along anywhere — and your on-device AI keeps working too. Real-time transcription, "What Did I Miss?" recaps, and bookmark context all run right on your iPhone, online or off. Perfect for flights, commutes, and dead zones. MADE FOR iPhone & iPad A native app built with SwiftUI — fast, fluid, and equally at home on a phone on the go or an iPad on the nightstand. BEAUTIFUL, YOUR WAY A warm, focused design that's a genuine pleasure to look at — with full Light and Dark mode so Bloox looks right at any hour. Bloox. Your books, understood.

The complete Analects of Confucius: all twenty books and 512 passages, in the original Chinese and in English, built for actually reading it. Every character is tappable. The card that opens shows what the character means here, in this passage — not a dictionary's one-size answer — along with its reading, the terms it belongs to, and how it is used across the whole book. Pinyin sits over the characters when you want it and disappears when you don't. READ IT YOUR WAY • Study — the full apparatus: text, translation, pinyin, tappable words, per-passage tone coloring. • Translation — the English as a book. The original waits one tap away under each passage. • Chinese — the received text alone, unglossed, with the English one tap away. • Classical — the text as old editions set it, in columns right to left. Four pages to choose from: one typeset, and three photographed from real copies held in Tokyo, Taipei, and Kyoto — a Qing manuscript, a Ming block print, and a 1550 scholar's copy — with every character mapped, so the glosses work even on a photograph. Scroll the book as one column, or turn it one passage per page, like a printed book. THE COMMENTARY GROWS WITH THE PODCAST The app carries the episode guides from the Exploring the Analects podcast — passage by passage: the philosophical discussion, the historical context, the language notes, with the audio a tap away. New episodes arrive as they are published. YOURS, IN THE FULLEST SENSE Notes you take live in your own iCloud Drive as Markdown — readable anywhere, and they outlive the app. The Chinese text is built in and always works offline. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics, and no tracking: nothing about your reading is collected. Everything is free — the text, both translations, the glosses, the classical pages, the commentary. A tip jar exists for those who want to keep the project going; nothing is unlocked, because nothing is locked.