iLib vs Meddah

iLib is your pocket library — one beautiful app for everything you read, hear, and study. Read on the web, on your iPhone and iPad, and on macOS — with more platforms on the way; sign in and your library, reading progress, notes and vocabulary sync across every device. ONE LIBRARY FOR EVERYTHING Books, comics, web novels, audiobooks, podcasts, radio and news — all in one place. Stream a massive global catalog of podcasts and live radio stations from countries and languages around the world, follow world news as it happens, and discover millions of free titles from public catalogs — or bring your own files. OPENS ALMOST ANYTHING • E-books: EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, FB2, FBZ • Documents: PDF • Text: TXT, Markdown • Comics: CBZ, CBR, CB7 • Audiobooks: MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, WAV — with chapters and cover art And with Send to iLib, paste any web article and it becomes a clean, readable book in your library. A SERIOUS READER A fast, beautiful reader with full typography control, highlights, notes, bookmarks and a calm dark mode. Open two books side by side — each keeps its own position, settings and translation — and read right-to-left and vertical scripts with ease. LISTENING IS READING TOO Sentence-level text-to-speech with synced highlighting, plus audiobooks, podcasts and read-along. Keep going with your ears when your eyes need a break. LUMI, YOUR AI READING PARTNER Ask questions about the book you're reading, get hard passages explained, and summarize chapters — grounded in the text in front of you. Use on-device models or bring your own key. TRANSLATE ANYTHING Translate a word, a passage, or an entire book across multiple engines — with optional, higher-quality AI translation when you want it. The interface itself is localized in 33 languages. EXPORT AND TAKE YOUR BOOKS WITH YOU Export any book as the original file, a fully translated edition, or a bilingual side-by-side EPUB — generated right on your device. LEARN AS YOU READ Tap any word to look it up, build your vocabulary, and review with spaced repetition and leveled reading. Import your existing word lists. YOURS, AND PRIVATE Local-first and offline-ready — your library lives on your device. Sign in to sync across every device. Your third-party credentials are end-to-end encrypted. No ads, no tracking. Start reading at web.ilib.ai or right here on your iPhone and iPad.

Meddah is an e-book reader for the books you already own — read them with your eyes, or listen to them. Add EPUB, MOBI/AZW, PDF and TXT files from the Files app; Meddah reads them aloud paragraph by paragraph, highlights the word being spoken, and picks up where you left off. READING ALOUD • Offline narration with the Apple voices on your device: male or female, adjustable speed • Optional Google Cloud Text-to-Speech with your own API key for WaveNet and Chirp voices, with a monthly character counter and limit • Lock screen and headphone controls, background playback, sleep timer, automatic pause for calls • Moves on to the next chapter by itself; tap any paragraph to start reading from there THE READING EXPERIENCE • Text with bold, italics, quotes, lists and images • Light, Sepia, Dark and Black themes; eight typefaces, size, line spacing and margins • Hierarchical contents, in-book search, chapter and progress indicators • Bookmarks, highlights in four colours, notes, and note export SCANNED PDFs • PDFs whose text layer is broken or missing are read again from the page images with on-device text recognition, so Turkish letters come out right — no internet needed ON EVERY DEVICE • Your reading position, bookmarks and notes sync across your own devices through iCloud SHARING AND BACKGROUND MUSIC • Turn a line you like into a quote card in five styles and share it • Quiet piano while you read (Satie, Debussy, Bach, Mozart; public domain) or rain, fireplace and sea sounds; you can add your own music files PRIVACY Your books stay on your device. Meddah asks for no account and collects no data. Google voices are used only if you enter your own key; in that case the text being read is sent to Google to generate the audio. Supported formats: EPUB 2/3, MOBI, PRC, AZW, AZW3 (without DRM), PDF, TXT.