Ghost Reader Live vs Slurp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ghost Reader Live
This app transforms documents and web content into spoken audio using on-device voices. Listen privately while following along with highlighted text, with options to adjust speed, navigate, and use lock-screen controls. A free tier offers limited daily listening, with premium options for unlimited access.
- On-device TTS narration
- Focus mode with highlighting and auto-scroll
- Adjustable listening speed (0.5x to 2x)
- Document navigation and resume playback
- Lock-screen and headphone controls
- Sleep timer and MP3 export
- Privacy-focused, no account required
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Turn reading into listening — privately. Ghost Reader narrates PDFs, EPUBs, web articles, Markdown, and plain-text files with natural on-device voices. Import a document or paste a link, then listen while following the text in Focus mode. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY WITH YOU Narration is generated on your iPhone. Your documents, extracted text, and audio are not sent to our servers. No account is required. MADE FOR LISTENING • Follow along with sentence highlighting and auto-scroll • Pick a voice and adjust listening speed from 0.5× to 2× • Navigate to any part of a document and resume where you stopped • Use lock-screen and headphone play/pause controls when narration is ready • Set a sleep timer or export narration as an MP3 FREE TO START Enjoy 30 minutes of narration each day for free. Upgrade through the App Store for unlimited listening with Monthly or Lifetime Access. Requires iPhone 12 or newer. Privacy Policy: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/terms.html
Slurp
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Read it later. Hear it now. Slurp reads anything aloud and lights up every word as it is spoken. Articles, PDFs, Word documents, newsletters, feeds, podcasts and video live in one library that syncs through your own iCloud. Free, with no account and no tracking. SAVE IT FROM ANYWHERE • Share a link, text, an email or a file from any app: Slurp sits in the share sheet • Web links become a clean article, pictures and all • PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, TXT, Markdown and HTML files keep their formatting • Posts from X and Bluesky arrive complete A READING LIST THAT STAYS TIDY • Collections and sub-collections, in the order you drag them into • Want to Read and Finished lists, and filters for articles, PDFs, posts, podcasts and video • Search runs over the full saved text, not just titles • Items, collections and reading position sync through your own iCloud A READER WORTH STAYING IN • Clean typography with the article's real images, kept for offline reading • The highlighted word stays in view as the page scrolls with the voice • PDFs read page for page, with headers and footers left unspoken • Pick up exactly where you stopped, on whichever device is in your hand FIVE VOICES, FOUR ON YOUR DEVICE • Kokoro, KittenTTS and Inflect: neural voices that run on your iPhone, with no key and no network • Apple: every voice installed on your device, Siri voices included • ElevenLabs: optional, with your own key • Read at 0.75× to 2×, and switch voice for a single item GENERATE ONCE, LISTEN EVERYWHERE New saves are narrated in the background and the finished audio syncs to your other devices, so playback starts at once, even with no signal. PODCASTS AND VIDEO, SAME LIBRARY YouTube, Vimeo, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes play beside your articles, with the same player and Lock Screen controls. Podcasts download when you add them. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, SPOKEN Follow any RSS or Atom feed, play a new entry on the spot or file it away for later. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no analytics, no server of ours that holds what you read. Your library lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. A bug report is sent only when you send one. Slurp is also on the Mac, with browser extensions and a shortcut that reads whatever you select in any app: slop.ee/goodies/slurp Made by Slop Agency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Slurp at none against Ghost Reader Live's 2. Ghost Reader Live's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Ghost Reader Live sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Slurp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ghost Reader Live ships an update fortnightly, Slurp every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ghost Reader Live | Slurp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 343 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan Ancajas | Kempu OU |
In-app purchases
Ghost Reader Live
- Ghost Reader$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99
Slurp
No in-app purchases







