Audiobookify vs Libratory

Read your EPUBs, or listen to them, with Audiobookify’s on-device, offline neural voices. Experience multi-voice narration for your books. Read in a clean, customizable reader, or pick up listening where you left off with natural neural voices that run entirely on your device. Every model is optimized for efficiency, so you get great battery life, cool thermals and reliable background playback. Optimized for iOS 26 and 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 (our best expressive model, Supporter only), Supertonic (30+ languages) and Kokoro (English), plus every Apple system voice and your Personal Voice • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting that follows along as it reads • Double-tap any sentence to start listening from there • Scroll freely while it reads, then re-center or jump to where you are • Background playback with lock-screen, Control Center and CarPlay controls, so you can keep listening with the screen off • Adjustable speaking speed and pauses between sentences, saved as listening presets • Resumes where you left off and continues seamlessly across chapters INTELLIGENT CASTING (SUPPORTER) • Multi-voice narration: dialogue is read in character voices while your narrator reads the rest • Who speaks each line is worked out entirely on your device • Choose a narrator, male character dialogue, and female character dialogue (custom model download required) • Analyze the whole book or chapter by chapter, with each story cast separately in short-story collections • Results are saved per book, so cast listening works offline A READER YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN • Clean, distraction-free EPUB reading (TXT and Markdown also supported) • Choose your font, text size, line spacing, margins and color theme • Bookmark any sentence and find it again by chapter or by most recent • Search inside any book, or use Intelligent Search to find passages by meaning (English) • Table of contents, chapter navigation and progress tracking • Catch Me Up: on-device recaps of what you’ve read so far • RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) speed-reading mode PRONUNCIATION THAT GETS IT RIGHT • Text replacements to fix names and abbreviations before they’re spoken • Pronunciation overrides using IPA for precise control • Smart handling of acronyms and all-caps text YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Import EPUBs from Files or other apps • Bring in fan fiction as EPUBs via URL import • Organize books into collections • Optional iCloud sync for reading progress, bookmarks, library and preferences • Home Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts to continue your book • Reading analytics for your daily and all-time reading and listening PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Speech is synthesized on your device; your books are never uploaded for narration • Intelligent Casting, Intelligent Search and recaps all run on your device • No account, no ads, no tracking One optional subscription, Audiobookify Supporter, unlocks Orate, our best expressive model, Intelligent Casting and premium 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

Libratory plays an audiobook over the real pages of the book, lighting up the sentence and the word being spoken as it reads. Double-tap a sentence to hear it again. Books are made on your Mac with the free Libratory desktop tool, which pairs a book with its narration and saves both as one synced EPUB. Send that file to your iPhone or iPad with AirDrop or the Files app, tap + on the shelf, and press play. Nothing is streamed, no account is needed, and everything works offline. The app comes with a short three-chapter guide already on the shelf. It is itself a synced book, so reading it is the fastest way to see what the app does. READ AND LISTEN • The voice plays over the printed page, with the sentence and the word highlighted as they are spoken • Double-tap a sentence to hear it from there • Three views of a synced book: Page shows the whole sheet with its pictures and tables, Column crops to the printed words, Text reflows the words at a size you choose • Playback continues with the screen locked, with the chapter, cover and controls on the lock screen • Change the speed and the highlight keeps up READ IN TWO LANGUAGES • A book exported with a translation opens with the original and the translation together, each with its own voice • Tap a word to hear the book from there, or to see what it means in the other language • Sentence pairs reads each sentence and then its translation; each language keeps its own speed, plays each sentence up to five times, and can pause to let you say it back • The original can stay on its printed page beside the translation JUST READ, OR JUST LISTEN • Open an EPUB ebook you already own and read it in Text view • Open an M4B audiobook, pick a chapter, and listen with the screen off PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF • The app remembers your place in every book and shows which parts you have heard • Hold a word to save it, put it in a group, and add a note; find it again in Marks • Search the book and your saved words, then jump back to read or listen KEEP YOUR LIBRARY IN ORDER • Folders and tags for your books, and a search across the whole library • Each book says which chapters light up word by word and which sentence by sentence SHELVES • Pair your phone with the desktop app by scanning the code on its Phone page, and every book it has made is a tap away over your own Wi‑Fi or Tailscale • A public shelf of free, narrated classics is built in, with a two-language Frankenstein among them • Each book says what it offers — read + listen, two languages, words or sentences lit — with its voice, length and a description PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no tracking. The app talks only to the shelves you add and the public shelf, to list and download books; what you read stays on your device. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.6 or later. On iOS 15 and 16, a simpler reader includes Pages and Text, playback, highlighting, chapters, saved progress, and two-language books in two panes. Bookmarks, search, folders and tags require iOS 17 or later. Synced books are made with the Libratory desktop app for Mac, free at libratory.dev. Plain EPUB ebooks and M4B audiobooks open as they are.