Murmur vs Addicted to Reading

Turn the books and documents you already own into audiobooks. Murmur reads EPUBs and PDFs aloud with natural neural voices that run entirely on your iPhone. Import a book, choose a narrator, press play, and keep listening while you commute, exercise, cook, clean, or simply give your eyes a break. NO AUDIOBOOK? NO PROBLEM. Most books will never receive a professionally produced audiobook. Your textbooks, PDFs, self-published books, research material, old EPUBs, and personal documents may never have one at all. Murmur lets you listen to the files you already have instead of buying another copy. READ EPUB & PDF ALOUD Import EPUB and PDF files directly into your library. Murmur organizes books into chapters and paragraphs and keeps your reading and listening position together. Follow the text while the narrator speaks, or put your phone away and keep listening in the background. 23 NEURAL VOICES Choose from 23 bundled narrators across 10 languages. Set a default narrator for each language or choose a different voice for an individual book. Adjust playback speed whenever you want. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Your books stay on your iPhone. Speech is generated on-device, so Murmur doesn't need to upload your EPUBs, PDFs, textbooks, or personal documents to a text-to-speech server. • No account • No document uploads • No cloud processing • No internet connection required for narration • Background playback BUILT FOR BOOKS, NOT JUST TEXT Murmur combines an EPUB reader, PDF reader, text-to-speech engine, audiobook player, and follow-along reader in one library. Use it for: • EPUB books • PDF books and documents • Textbooks and course material • Research and professional reading • Independent and self-published books • Out-of-print titles • Long reading backlogs • Hands-free reading • Read-aloud and accessibility workflows LISTEN YOUR WAY Murmur remembers your position, playback speed, and narrator settings for every book. Switch between reading and listening without losing your place. FREE TO START Import as many books as you want. Free includes 60 minutes of listening every 30 days and access to one English and one Polish narrator. Murmur Premium unlocks unlimited listening and all 23 voices. Your books already contain the words. Murmur gives them a voice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://readbuildship.com/apps/murmur/privacy

DuoBook turns your PDF library into a daily reading habit. Import any PDF you own, set a simple daily page goal, and let DuoBook keep you accountable — Duolingo-style — with a win streak that grows every day you hit your target. No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your books and your progress never leave your device. HOW IT WORKS Drop in your own PDFs — novels, textbooks, reports, whatever you're working through. DuoBook copies each file locally, generates a cover, and adds it to your shelf. Open a book, read at your own pace in a clean full-page PDF viewer, and DuoBook quietly tracks the pages you've read today. Set your daily objective (10 pages a day by default, fully adjustable) and watch a progress ring fill up as you read. Hit your goal and a pixel-art campfire lights up to celebrate — miss a day and your streak resets, just like the habit apps you already know. STAY MOTIVATED - Daily win streak with a best-streak record, so you always know your all-time high - A dedicated Statistics screen: an activity calendar for the last 5 weeks and a bar chart of your last 7 days, so you can see your habit take shape - A home screen widget (via WidgetKit) that shows your current streak and how many pages are left today — no need to open the app to stay on track - A profile screen with your own avatar, name, and bio BUILT YOUR WAY - Import unlimited PDFs from anywhere on your device - Automatic page-by-page progress tracking as you read — pick up exactly where you left off - Light and dark mode, switchable anytime - A distinctive retro "green terminal" look: neon green on black, a pixel font, hand-picked pixel-art icons, and an animated dot-matrix navigation bar — DuoBook feels like nothing else on the App Store PRIVACY FIRST DuoBook doesn't ask for an account and doesn't show ads. Your PDFs, your reading stats, and your streak are stored entirely on your device (and synced to your widget through Apple's own App Group storage). Nothing is uploaded, nothing is tracked. Whether you're chipping away at a textbook, working through a backlog of novels, or just trying to read more consistently, DuoBook gives you the small daily nudge — and the streak to prove it — to actually finish what you start. Download DuoBook and start your streak today.