AudiV vs Tarn

AudiV is the audiobook player you fill yourself. No subscription, no streaming catalog, no ads — just your library, your rules. Drop in audiobooks you already own — DRM-free purchases from Libro.fm or Downpour, your converted Audible library, free LibriVox classics, podcasts, your own recordings — and AudiV reads the embedded chapters, cover art, and metadata for instant playback. THE PLAYER YOU ACTUALLY WANT • Real chapters with titles, scrub-snap, prev / next • Bookmarks with notes • Sleep timer with shake-to-extend • Speed: 0.5× to 4×, learns your per-author preference • Smart Speed: shortens long silences automatically • Crossfade between tracks • Lock-screen, CarPlay, and Apple Watch • Background playback that just works SIDELOAD ANYTHING • Files / iCloud Drive / On My iPhone — direct picker • Wi-Fi Transfer — open the URL on your computer, drag the files in via your browser • AirDrop from a Mac • Apple Watch sync of metadata + position FAMILY LINK (OPTIONAL) If you have kids using a second phone, AudiV can pair the two devices through a 6-character code: • See what they're listening to in real time • Set bedtime windows, daily-minute caps, day-of-week schedules • Lock individual books or set an allow-only list • Send a book straight from your phone to theirs • Engage an emergency lockdown ("dinner!") with an unlock timer • See the whole picture: 7-day chart, listening streak, finished count The kid device only ever transmits the listening data tied to the opaque pairing code. There is no account, no email, no Apple ID needed. Generate a new code anytime and the old data orphans immediately. KID MODE A device-local Kid Mode hides adult-flagged items and locks the app into the player. Disabling Kid Mode requires a 4-digit PIN. Themes designed for older kids ship alongside the standard palettes — Aurora, Galaxy, Wild, Lagoon, Citrus. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No analytics SDK • No advertising • No tracking across apps or websites • Listening data never leaves your device unless you explicitly set up Family Link • Speech transcription (optional, per-book) runs entirely on your device — audio never gets uploaded anywhere WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING AudiV doesn't sell audiobooks. You import your own. Recommended sources: • LibriVox — free, public-domain (librivox.org) • Libro.fm — DRM-free MP3 zips, supports indie bookstores • Downpour — DRM-free purchases of new releases • Your converted Audible / personal library Files in m4b, m4a, mp3, aac, wav, flac, ogg, and opus formats import directly. Multi-file books can be merged into a single m4b with free tools like m4b-tool before import. TECHNICAL NOTES • iOS 17+ • ~50 MB install • Audio files live in the app sandbox — included in iCloud + iTunes backup • No in-app purchases. AudiV is free.

Tarn is a simple, quiet ebook reader. Open a book, pick up where you left off, and nothing gets in the way. READS WHAT YOU HAVE • EPUB, PDF and CBZ comics • FB2, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, RTF and HTML, converted to EPUB once on import • Import files or whole folders, open books from other apps, or link a folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or on a USB drive and read in place YOUR LIBRARY, IN ORDER • Opens with what you're reading, what you read lately and what's new • Browse by author, series, shelf, genre or language; authors A–Z by surname, however a book writes the name • Divide any list by author, series, shelf, genre or reading state, as covers or a list • Shelves you make yourself; select several books at once to shelve, finish or delete them MADE FOR READING • Five themes – Paper, Sepia, Sage, Dusk and Night – that follow light and dark mode • Fonts, size, line spacing, margins, justification and hyphenation; paged or scrolling • Two-page spreads on iPad in landscape • Dim the screen below the system minimum for reading in bed • Footnotes open in a popup, and a Back button takes you home after any link • Real page numbers when the book has them, and time left in the chapter • Your place is kept by the words on screen: rotating or a new font size never moves you a page UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER • Long-press a word for the offline English dictionary: pronunciation, meanings, examples, synonyms • Every word you look up is saved, with flashcards to review them and export for Anki • Highlights in four colors, notes, and bookmarks that land on the exact words • Search the whole book, ignoring case and accents LISTEN • Read aloud with your device's voices, sentence by sentence, even with the screen locked • It picks up at the exact sentence where it stopped YOUR DEVICES, IN SYNC • Books, reading positions, bookmarks, highlights, shelves and reading stats sync through your own iCloud – no account, no server • Stats show how long you read on each device AND MORE • Free classics from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, one tap into your library • Reading stats for every book: a calendar of the days you read it with the minutes of each, total time, pace and your best days • Overall stats, reading speed and an optional daily goal • Home Screen and Lock Screen widget that continues your current book • English and Czech No ads, no tracking, no account.