Local Narrator vs Audiobookify

Your books, read aloud — privately, on your iPhone. Local Narrator turns any EPUB or text-based PDF in your library into a real audiobook, narrated by a warm neural voice that runs entirely on the Apple Neural Engine. Nothing leaves your device. There is no cloud. There is no account. There is nothing to opt out of. — BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS — Drop in EPUB or PDF files from the Files app, the share sheet, or AirDrop. Your books stay on your iPhone, and the audio they become stays there too. No upload, no forced sync, no backup you didn't ask for. — A REAL NEURAL NARRATOR — Local Narrator runs Kokoro-82M, a state-of-the-art on-device text-to-speech model, on the Apple Neural Engine. The voices are warm, natural, and quietly expressive. When you'd rather not download the model, Apple's built-in system voices work for free. — BILINGUAL, AND SMART ABOUT IT — English and Spanish. Local Narrator detects each book's language and picks a voice trained for it. Spanish voices are still in beta stage. — LIKE AN AUDIOBOOK SHOULD BE — • Background playback that doesn't stop when the screen sleeps • Lock-screen controls — play, pause, +30, −15, scrub • Home and Lock-screen widget with a clean amber progress ring • Sleep timer for reading yourself to sleep • Per-book reading position, automatically saved • Unlimited bookmarks • Adjustable speed from 0.5× to 3.0× • Light parchment or dark charcoal reading themes • Full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — No accounts. No telemetry. No advertising SDKs. No third-party trackers. The only network call the app ever makes is the optional, one-time download of the Kokoro voice model. After that, everything works in airplane mode. — ONE PURCHASE. YOURS FOREVER. — Free to download and try with one book and Apple's system voices. A single $4.99 in-app purchase ("Local Narrator Full Access") unlocks unlimited books, all neural voices, the full speed range, the widget, the sleep timer, and unlimited bookmarks. No subscription. Family Sharing supported. — BUILT FOR REAL iPhones — iOS 17 and newer. iPhone 15 or later (Pro version recommended), optimised for the Apple Neural Engine. A small, careful app for people who still read.

Read your EPUBS, or listen to them with Audiobookify, using on device, offline neural TTS models. Read with a clean, customizable reader, or listen where you left off with natural neural voices that run entirely on your device. All models run efficiently, meaning great optimization, battery life, thermals and background playback. Optimized for iOS 26 & 27. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK • On-device neural text-to-speech once a voice is downloaded, narration works fully offline and nothing you read is sent to a server • Multiple engines and voices: Orate (best natural model, supporter only), Supertonic (30+ languages) and Kokoro (English), plus every Apple system voice • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting that follows along as it reads • Double-tap any sentence to start listening from there • Background playback with lock-screen and Control Center controls - keep listening with the screen off • Adjustable speaking speed and pauses between sentences • Resumes where you left off and continues seamlessly across chapters A READER YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN • Clean, distraction-free EPUB reading (txt and MD also supported) • Choose your font, text size, line spacing, margins, and color theme • Table of contents, chapter navigation, and progress tracking • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting that follows along as it reads PRONUNCIATION THAT GETS IT RIGHT • Text replacements to fix names and abbreviations before they're spoken • Pronunciation overrides using IPA for precise control • RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation speed reading mode YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Import EPUBs from Files or other apps • Optional iCloud sync for reading progress, library, and preferences • Bring in fan fiction as EPUBs via URL import PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Speech is synthesized on your device, your books are never uploaded for narration • No account, no ads, no tracking The app contains one in app purchase that unlocks Orate, our best model, extra voices, and supports ongoing development. More voices and models will be added in the future. All core features are free forever. Download once, listen offline, read your way. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/therysin/Audiobookify/blob/main/PrivacyPolicy.md