Timber vs OpenVox Reader

Timber is a reader that listens with you. Paste an article from Safari or any browser, drop in a book, or just snap a page with your camera — Timber turns it into clean, beautiful text and reads it aloud in a voice you choose, today. There is even a companion desktop app that moves your browser tabs into your ears. Ever asked Safari to read a page aloud and had it stop halfway through, or skip the parts that mattered? That is not you missing a setting. Most reader tools simply are not built to get the whole article. Timber pulls the full text out first, cleanly, before it ever starts speaking. The article you paste is the article you hear, start to finish. It was built by a teacher who spent years watching kids fight through words they desperately wanted to understand, and who couldn't find one app that read beautifully, respected privacy, and didn't hold the basics hostage. WHAT TIMBER PROMISES • No account. No sign-up. Open it and read. • The core reader is free — and stays free. • What you read is nobody's business. Articles, books, and clipboard text are processed on your device. What you read won't be shared. VOICES, PROPERLY • Every Apple voice on your device works, free — including Enhanced and Premium. • Hundreds of neural voices across dozens of languages, downloaded on demand and spoken entirely on your device. • Every voice library includes a free male and female voice in your language. No teaser locked behind a trial. • Record a reference of your own voice and Timber can read in it — created on device, never uploaded. A READER THAT FEELS LIKE PAPER • Warm parchment design — an open book under a reading lamp, not a tech product. • Word-by-word highlighting that keeps pace at every speed, 0.5× to 3×. • Serif reading typography you can tune: size, face, line spacing. Six palettes built in. BRING ANYTHING • Paste a link and Timber extracts the article — no ads, no popups, just the text. • Share from Safari or any browser, import PDFs and text, follow RSS feeds. • Point your camera at a printed page and Timber reads it back to you. • Browse 70,000+ free public-domain books from Project Gutenberg. • Translate articles on device, or get a quick on-device summary — no cloud, no AI account. • Export any article as spoken audio to take with you. • Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices. TIMBER PRO (optional, one subscription or pay once) The free reader is complete. Pro unlocks the full neural voice catalog beyond each library's free pair, every palette, and ongoing personal-voice listening after the free 24-hour trial. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime — and the trial simply lapses; it never auto-charges. Privacy Policy: https://timberreader.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Timber was made for the kid in the back row who hears a story better than they can read it — and for everyone whose eyes are tired, busy, or somewhere else. If that's you, welcome.

Turn Reading Time into Listening Time OpenVox Reader transforms books, PDFs, documents, web links and text into natural-sounding audio, so you can keep reading while commuting, walking, exercising, resting or working. Import your content, choose from hundreds of voices, create your own custom voice, and listen at your preferred speed without sending your private documents to an online speech service. Listen to Almost Anything Bring all your reading into one simple library: • Import ebooks and PDFs • Add documents and text files • Save web links for listening • Scan printed pages • Paste or type text directly • Organize everything in one place OpenVox Reader can generate and play speech locally on your device, so once the required voices are downloaded, you can listen without an internet connection. Natural Voices You’ll Enjoy Choose from more than 200 voices across 30+ languages and find the voice that best suits your book, article or document. You can also create custom voices for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS and listen to your content in a voice you choose. Listen at Your Own Pace Adjust playback from 0.5x all the way to 2.5x with smooth, pitch-preserving audio. Choose convenient presets including: • 0.5x • 1.0x • 1.5x • 2.0x • 2.5x Faster playback is supported with optimized buffering and accurate elapsed and remaining-time calculations. Save Important Sentences Found something worth coming back to? Bookmark the sentence you are currently reading and access it anytime from Saved Sentences. You can: • Save or remove sentences instantly • Browse all saved passages • Filter your saved sentences • Jump directly back to the original location • Delete bookmarks you no longer need Search Inside Your Documents Quickly find words, phrases or sections without scrolling through an entire book or document. Search in Document provides result previews and lets you jump directly to each matching location. EPUB search is optimized chapter by chapter to keep memory usage efficient even with larger books. Listen Without an Internet Connection Keep listening on flights, trains, commutes or anywhere without reliable internet access. Speech generation happens locally, allowing downloaded voices and imported content to remain available when you need them. Private by Design Your documents are processed locally for speech generation rather than being uploaded to a cloud TTS service. OpenVox Reader is built for people who want convenient AI-powered reading while keeping control of their content. Track Your Reading Journey See how much you have actually listened and keep your reading momentum going with: • Listening time • Daily and weekly progress • Reading streaks • Recently opened content • Personal listening statistics Reading time is calculated from audio that was actually spoken, giving you a accurate picture of your listening activity. Made for iPhone and iPad Use OpenVox Reader across iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync for your library. Your content stays organized across your Apple devices, and one purchase unlocks the app on both iPhone and iPad. Read More, Even When You’re Offline Whether you’re travelling, exercising, relaxing, commuting or getting work done, OpenVox Reader helps turn spare moments into meaningful reading time. Download OpenVox Reader and start listening to your reading today.