ScrollWave vs Audissey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollWave
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ScrollWave is a serialized reading and listening app for people who want stories in episodes. Create your own books, listen to them episode by episode, read along with the full text, and continue right where you left off. ScrollWave is built for stories that fit into real life: short sessions, longer listening, and easy progress across every book. With ScrollWave, you can: • Create your own serialized books • Listen to episode-based audio • Read the text version of each episode • Resume from your last listening position • Track progress across your library • Browse available books and continue unfinished stories • Keep your created books organized in one place • Use credits to unlock listening when available ScrollWave combines the feel of audiobooks, episodic storytelling, and a personal library in one simple experience. Start a book, follow the story in audio or text, and come back whenever you are ready for the next episode.
Audissey
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Audissey turns web fiction, articles, and public-domain books into audio you can listen to anywhere — on your commute, while cooking, or with the screen locked. Open a chapter in Audissey’s browser and tap Read to hear it immediately, or tap Extract to save it. Paste a link, paste the text yourself, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Audissey imports the story, cleans it up, and reads it aloud. Build a personal library, organize stories on shelves, and pick up right where you left off. LISTEN YOUR WAY • Read a page in the browser without saving it, with the current sentence highlighted as it is spoken • On a single-page book, such as a Project Gutenberg title, listening continues into the next chapter • Import from a link, pasted text, an RSS feed, or the in-app browser • Save a browser page as fiction or as an article, and name the new novel or collection • Add a chapter to a novel you already have, with its own title and number • Bookmarks and ready-made starting points for public-domain libraries and major news sites • Play, pause, and skip with lock-screen controls • Tap Read on the player to jump back to the chapter and follow along • Adjust playback speed to match your pace • Ambient listening screen for a calm, hands-free experience • A chapter imported from the web remembers its page, and you can open that page from the chapter settings. SMART LIBRARY • Auto-import checks for newly published chapters on stories you follow • RSS subscriptions bring in new articles from sites you follow • Automatically split massive, single-page stories into chapters when you import them • Search across stories and chapters • Organize novels and article collections into custom shelves • Track progress chapter by chapter • Syncs across your devices with iCloud BUILT-IN AUTHOR SUPPORT When a chapter includes a Patreon or PayPal link, Audissey shows it in the reader so you can support the author. Those links stay out of the audio, so they never interrupt the story. INTELLIGENT, EXPRESSIVE VOICES Choose Apple’s built-in voices or switch to Audissey Neural Voices, our on-device neural voice engine. Speech is generated on your iPhone, so your stories stay private. • Context-aware pronunciation: words like “read” are spoken the way the sentence means them • Dynamic expression adds emphasis and pacing to action and dialogue • Custom dictionary for character names and world-building terms • Assign a narrator to each story from its settings Audissey Neural Voices currently support English. More languages are in progress. • Audissey Neural Voices include American and British English, and they stay cooler through long listening. ADVANCED API INTEGRATIONS Connect your own API keys on your device: • Speaker detection: use an OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic key to identify who is speaking. On a browser page, each speaker can have a voice without saving the page. In a saved novel, a voice you assign is used for that character throughout the story. • Page selection: the same key can suggest how to capture the title and body of a page, so similar pages on that site are easier next time • ElevenLabs: stream realistic, multi-cast character voices into your listening queue. With your own key, choose the speech model in Settings. AUDISSEY PRO A one-time purchase. Pro removes ads, lets you import unlimited chapters at once, and adds Cache Ahead so Audissey Neural Voices can keep playing smoothly with the screen locked. Audissey is for readers who want to hear their favorite stories — not another streaming subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ScrollWave at none against Audissey's 1. ScrollWave also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). Audissey's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price and device support 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. Audissey sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ScrollWave asks for nothing beyond the download.
ScrollWave ships an update fortnightly, Audissey every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScrollWave | Audissey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 362 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Biskaev | Won O Soft |
In-app purchases
ScrollWave
No in-app purchases
Audissey
- Audissey Pro$8.99









