Comparison

Ghost Reader Live vs Slurp

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Slurp

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Ghost Reader Live3 screens
Slurp4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Ghost Reader Live versus Slurp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost Reader LiveSlurp
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan AncajasKempu OU

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ghost Reader Live

Subscriptions1
  • Ghost Reader$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99
None

Slurp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ghost Reader Live free?
Ghost Reader Live is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slurp free?
Slurp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ghost Reader Live or Slurp have ads?
Neither Ghost Reader Live nor Slurp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Reader Live or Slurp?
Ghost Reader Live ships an update fortnightly, and Slurp every 4 months. Most recently, Ghost Reader Live was updated on October 31, 2026 and Slurp on November 5, 2026.

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