BookWave vs Aloudy

BookWave is a simple, beautiful way to read and listen to EPUBs, PDFs, and scanned book pages—no accounts, no clutter, just your books. IMPORT OR SCAN YOUR BOOKS Add any DRM-free EPUB or PDF to BookWave, and it appears on your shelf in seconds. You can also scan pages from a printed book, turn them into text, and create your own EPUB. Your library is yours: organize books into folders and keep everything in one place. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK BookWave reads your books aloud with natural-sounding voices, entirely on your device. When available, words are highlighted as they’re spoken, so you can follow along or switch between reading and listening anytime. Playback continues in the background, so you can listen while walking, commuting, or with the screen off. EVERYTHING STAYS IN SYNC Your library, reading progress, highlights, and bookmarks sync privately between your iPhone and iPad through iCloud. Start reading a chapter on one device and continue from exactly where you left off on another. No registration, no accounts, no third-party servers. SAVE WHAT MATTERS Save important passages as highlights. Your highlights and bookmarks stay with the book across all your devices. TRACK YOUR READING See how much you read and listen each day, and watch your reading habit grow. 20 CLASSICS INCLUDED Start reading right away with a free built-in library of classic EPUB books—including Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Around the World in Eighty Days, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and many more. PRIVATE BY DESIGN BookWave has no accounts and no tracking. Your books and reading data live on your device and in your personal iCloud—nowhere else. BOOKWAVE PRO Reading and importing books are free, and you can listen to every built-in classic at no cost. BookWave Pro unlocks listening for your imported EPUB and PDF books, along with detailed reading statistics. Monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions are available. Each includes a one-week free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://minimapps.github.io/bookwave/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://minimapps.github.io/bookwave/terms.html

Listen to anything you need to read. Aloudy turns PDFs, e-books, documents, web articles and even photos of printed pages into natural speech, and highlights every word as it is read. The voices are neural AI models that run entirely on your iPhone or iPad. After a one-time voice download, everything works offline, even in airplane mode. There is no account and no sign-up, your documents never leave your device, and there are no ads. READ ANYTHING • PDF and EPUB in their original layout, with the spoken sentence highlighted right on the page • FB2, Word (DOCX), TXT, Markdown, HTML and RTF files • Web articles: share a link from Safari or any app • Paste or type your own text • Scan a page or pick a photo: text is recognized on your device • Built-in browser: open any website and listen to the page, with the text highlighted • Classic books: pick from more than 70,000 public domain titles and listen FOLLOW ALONG • The current sentence and word are highlighted as you listen • Tap any sentence to start reading from there • Table of contents for PDFs and e-books • Search inside a document • Pick up exactly where you left off NATURAL AI VOICES • 46 neural voices, including natural American and British English voices and Mandarin Chinese voices • Multilingual voices that read 31 languages • Adjust the reading speed to your pace READ YOUR WAY • Reading themes, fonts, text size and line spacing • Folders and tags to keep your library organized MADE FOR LISTENING • Background playback with lock screen and Control Center controls • Keeps playing after calls and when you switch headphones Great for long articles, textbooks and reports, for listening while you walk, commute or cook, and for anyone who finds listening easier than reading, including people with dyslexia or ADHD. FREE AND PRO Aloudy is free to try: the free plan reads the beginning of each book or document; Pro reads everything and unlocks all 46 voices, as a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://aloudy.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://aloudy.app/privacy