Comparison

Volume vs Artale Novel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Volume

Features
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Volume turns the books you own and the articles you find on the web into one private, offline library — and reads them aloud with a natural neural voice, generated entirely on your device. SAVE ARTICLES FROM YOUR BROWSER Found something worth reading? Tap Share in Safari or another app and save it to your library as an article — a clean, offline copy of the text, ready to read or listen to like any book. File it straight into a collection if you like. IMPORT YOUR BOOKS Bring your own EPUB, Markdown, plain-text, and RTF files. Books and articles land in one searchable library, whatever their source. READ COMFORTABLY A reflowable reader with themes, adjustable typography, instant resume, chapter navigation, and footnotes in place — fully offline. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Highlight passages and add notes that survive font changes. See them gathered for one book or across your whole library, and tag them by topic to find them again. LISTEN WITH READ-ALONG Tap play and your book or article is read aloud by an on-device neural voice, with the current passage highlighted as it is spoken. Figures, tables, code, and equations are announced instead of silently skipped, and short pauses mark headings, quotations, and section breaks. Narration follows chapter jumps, keeps your place, works like an audiobook from the lock screen — and by default is kept, so going back or listening again is instant. IN THE CAR With CarPlay, pick a recent book on your car's screen and narration picks up where you left off, with chapters a tap away. TAKE IT WITH YOU Export a narrated book as an M4B audiobook with chapter markers that plays in any audiobook app, or export the original file you imported. Books you finish are marked automatically, and Clean Up clears out what you're done with in one step. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No ads. No tracking. No telemetry. Your books, your articles, and your reading never leave your device — narration is generated locally, and once something is saved, everything works in airplane mode. The User Guide is pre-loaded, so you can hear read-along the moment the app opens — and it doubles as a seven-chapter tour of importing, reading, and listening. Narration voices are synthesized speech (Kyutai pocket-tts, CC-BY voices); quality of pronunciation can vary on unusual words and names.

About

Artale Novel

Listen to community-published audio dramas and novels. Follow your favorite series, pick up where you left off, and discover new stories with advanced playback controls. Free to download with optional iOS memberships for enhanced listening.

Highlights
  • Community-published audio stories
  • Resume playback seamlessly
  • Discover by creator, genre, and tags
  • Subscribe to follow series
  • Adjust playback speed
  • Sleep timer
  • Lock screen controls
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Artale Novel is a free listening app for audio novels published by the Artale creator community. Follow a series, press play, and pick up exactly where you left off. COMMUNITY-PUBLISHED STORIES Every series in the catalog is written, cast, and published by creators on the Artale web studio. Artale Novel is a listener app — it plays what the community has already published. There is no recording, writing, or uploading inside the app. LISTEN IN Continue what you were last playing and catch new episodes from the series you follow. A compact mini player keeps going while you browse. DISCOVER Search titles and descriptions, then narrow things down by creator, genre, and tags. Subscribe to a series and its new episodes show up under Listen. LIBRARY Your subscriptions and in-progress titles in one place, so a half-finished episode is always one tap away. BUILT FOR LONG LISTENS Drag across the cover art to seek, adjust playback speed, set a sleep timer, line up what plays next, and control everything from the lock screen. Episodes stream as you listen. FREE TO DOWNLOAD, OPTIONAL iOS MEMBERSHIP Artale Novel is free to download. Optional auto-renewing listening memberships are sold only on iOS through Apple In-App Purchase: • Reader Standard — 1 month, USD 2.99 (or local equivalent). Unlimited listening time, plus 10 hours of Premium catalog per billing period. • Reader Premium — 1 month, USD 9.99 (or local equivalent). Unlimited listening plus unlimited Premium catalog episodes. Subscriptions auto-renew until you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms: https://artale.ai/artale-novel/subscriptions Privacy: https://artale.ai/artale-novel/privacy Sign in with a free Artale account using email, Sign in with Apple, or Google. The account is used for authentication and to keep the series you follow. Learn more at https://www.artale.ai Privacy Policy: https://artale.ai/artale-novel/privacy Terms of Service: https://artale.ai/artale-novel/terms Subscriptions: https://artale.ai/artale-novel/subscriptions

Screenshots

Volume4 screens
Artale Novel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Volume at none against Artale Novel's 2. Artale Novel's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Artale Novel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Volume asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Volume ships an update every 2 weeks, Artale Novel every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Volume versus Artale Novel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVolumeArtale Novel
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperStructured Fun, LLCArtale AI

In-app purchases

None

Volume

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Artale Novel

Subscriptions2
  • Reader Standard$2.991 Month
  • Reader Premium$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Volume free?
Volume is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Artale Novel free?
Artale Novel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Volume or Artale Novel have ads?
Neither Volume nor Artale Novel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Volume or Artale Novel?
Volume ships an update every 2 weeks, and Artale Novel every 10 days. Most recently, Volume was updated on November 10, 2026 and Artale Novel on November 7, 2026.

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