Audissey vs Libratory

Audissey turns web fiction, articles, and public-domain books into audio you can listen to anywhere — on your commute, while cooking, or with the screen locked. Open a chapter in Audissey’s browser and tap Read to hear it immediately, or tap Extract to save it. Paste a link, paste the text yourself, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Audissey imports the story, cleans it up, and reads it aloud. Build a personal library, organize stories on shelves, and pick up right where you left off. LISTEN YOUR WAY • Read a page in the browser without saving it, with the current sentence highlighted as it is spoken • On a single-page book, such as a Project Gutenberg title, listening continues into the next chapter • Import from a link, pasted text, an RSS feed, or the in-app browser • Save a browser page as fiction or as an article, and name the new novel or collection • Add a chapter to a novel you already have, with its own title and number • Bookmarks and ready-made starting points for public-domain libraries and major news sites • Play, pause, and skip with lock-screen controls • Tap Read on the player to jump back to the chapter and follow along • Adjust playback speed to match your pace • Ambient listening screen for a calm, hands-free experience • A chapter imported from the web remembers its page, and you can open that page from the chapter settings. SMART LIBRARY • Auto-import checks for newly published chapters on stories you follow • RSS subscriptions bring in new articles from sites you follow • Automatically split massive, single-page stories into chapters when you import them • Search across stories and chapters • Organize novels and article collections into custom shelves • Track progress chapter by chapter • Syncs across your devices with iCloud BUILT-IN AUTHOR SUPPORT When a chapter includes a Patreon or PayPal link, Audissey shows it in the reader so you can support the author. Those links stay out of the audio, so they never interrupt the story. INTELLIGENT, EXPRESSIVE VOICES Choose Apple’s built-in voices or switch to Audissey Neural Voices, our on-device neural voice engine. Speech is generated on your iPhone, so your stories stay private. • Context-aware pronunciation: words like “read” are spoken the way the sentence means them • Dynamic expression adds emphasis and pacing to action and dialogue • Custom dictionary for character names and world-building terms • Assign a narrator to each story from its settings Audissey Neural Voices currently support English. More languages are in progress. • Audissey Neural Voices include American and British English, and they stay cooler through long listening. ADVANCED API INTEGRATIONS Connect your own API keys on your device: • Speaker detection: use an OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic key to identify who is speaking. On a browser page, each speaker can have a voice without saving the page. In a saved novel, a voice you assign is used for that character throughout the story. • Page selection: the same key can suggest how to capture the title and body of a page, so similar pages on that site are easier next time • ElevenLabs: stream realistic, multi-cast character voices into your listening queue. With your own key, choose the speech model in Settings. AUDISSEY PRO A one-time purchase. Pro removes ads, lets you import unlimited chapters at once, and adds Cache Ahead so Audissey Neural Voices can keep playing smoothly with the screen locked. Audissey is for readers who want to hear their favorite stories — not another streaming subscription.

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.