Murmur vs Aura

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

Turn documents into a private listening experience with Aura. Import text, TXT, EPUB, DOCX and text-based PDFs, then listen with clear on-device speech. Aura keeps your documents and generated audio on your iPhone or iPad. After you download the speech model and a voice, you can listen without a connection. READ YOUR WAY • Import files, paste text, or share documents to Aura from other apps • Continue from your saved place, with sentence-by-sentence follow-along • Play, pause, skip sentences and choose a comfortable speed • Keep listening with the screen locked, with Lock Screen controls • Choose from the available voices and narration languages • Save a narration as an M4A audio file WORK WITH TEXT IN MORE WAYS • Take or pick a photo and turn the printed text into something you can hear • Translate text on your device after downloading the language • Six reading themes and adjustable font, size and spacing • Use Aura in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Swedish or Danish PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your document text, filenames, reading position and generated audio stay in Aura's private storage on your device. Aura does not use a cloud text-to-speech service. Downloading the speech model, voices and optional languages needs an internet connection. The free version shows ads and limits listening time, library size and export. Aura Pro removes ads and unlocks every voice, EPUB import, offline translation, unlimited listening and export, and an unlimited library. Pro is available monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/