LocalPlay vs Local AI Reader

Your audiobooks belong to you - and with LocalPlay, they stay with you. LocalPlay is a private audiobook player for your own audio files. Import individual titles or complete series directly from the Files app. LocalPlay remembers your playback position, displays embedded artwork and chapters, and keeps playing reliably in the background. Features: - import individual audiobooks and complete series - play MP3, M4A, and M4B files - automatically continue from your last position - display chapters and embedded cover artwork - adjust playback speed to suit you - fall asleep comfortably with the Sleep Timer - continue playback in the background - control playback from the Lock Screen and headphones - send audio files to LocalPlay using the Share function No account. No advertising. No tracking. Your audio files and playback data remain locally on your device.

Local AI Reader turns any document into a personal audiobook using on-device AI voices that sound remarkably natural — no internet, no cloud, no privacy concerns. Import a PDF, EPUB, TXT or RTF from your Files app, iCloud Drive or any share sheet. Local AI Reader automatically splits the text into sentences and speaks them one by one, with every word highlighted in real time as it is read aloud. Follow along, skip ahead, or tap any sentence to jump straight to it. Choose from 8 distinct voices — American English and British English, male and female — each powered by a language model that runs entirely on your device!