Island Reader vs LightReadr

Turn your own EPUB, PDF, and TXT files into a private library you can read, listen to, and annotate across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Island Reader keeps long-form reading moving when your eyes or hands are busy. Import the files you already have, listen with natural voices, follow each sentence, and continue from your latest position on another Apple device. APPLE WATCH Control iPhone playback, choose chapters and voices, switch between recent books, and view reading goals and statistics from your wrist. Requires a paired iPhone; audio plays through the iPhone or its connected audio device. KEY FEATURES • Import EPUB, PDF, and TXT from Files, or transfer books over your local Wi-Fi network • Choose natural AI voices or system voices, get language-aware recommendations, adjust speed, set a sleep timer, and follow sentence-by-sentence highlighting • Personalize themes, text size, spacing, margins, light or dark appearance, and reading navigation • Group and pin books, search your library, edit titles and covers, and share original files • Search inside books, add bookmarks, highlight passages, and write notes • Use iCloud to sync supported settings, groups, book information, reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, and notes • Keep books private: imported files stay on your devices, are not uploaded to our servers, and are not synced through iCloud ISLAND READER PRO Island Reader is free to download and includes core reading features. Optional Island Reader Pro purchases unlock additional benefits, including unlimited book imports and note export. Available plans, benefits, durations, trial eligibility, and localized prices are shown in the app before purchase. Auto-renewable subscriptions renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. A lifetime purchase, when offered, is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Voice availability and AI speech features may vary by language, device, region, and network connection. Privacy Policy: https://fancy-crop-f2c.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-730a85c63d7b829eb47201e27f655995 Terms of Use: https://fancy-crop-f2c.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-feda85c63d7b82d5aebd011068fe1bf6

Read your ebooks and comics. Listen to your ebooks with natural-sounding narration, generated right on your device. Bring the books you already own and switch between reading and listening whenever you like. LightReadr is free, with no subscription or LightReadr account required. NATURAL VOICE NARRATION Choose from several natural-sounding voices and follow each word as it highlights on the page. Tap a sentence to start narration there. Read Aloud is available for text-based ebooks. LISTEN OFFLINE Narration is generated locally on your iPhone or iPad. Your book text is not sent to a speech service, and the generated audio stays on your device. Listen offline, without a streaming connection. BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS Add ebooks, PDFs, and comics from Files, or browse, search, and download from Bookorbit, Komga, and Calibre. Discover Calibre libraries on your Wi-Fi or enter your library's address. Five free public-domain classics are included, so you can start reading right away. COMICS ON YOUR SHELF Open CBZ and CBR comics, browse their pages, jump to a page, and return to your saved reading place. CBR files are converted on your device with their original page images preserved. MAKE THE PAGE YOURS Adjust font, size, theme, margins, and line height — per book, so one title can look different from the next. Chapter navigation, when the book includes it, gets you around fast. A DIFFERENT LOOK ON DUO On iPhone Duo with iOS 27.1 or later, reading layouts adapt to the hinge and the device's open and folded positions. Give each book a custom cover from Photos or Files, or choose from six gallery images: three classic book designs, a Sony Walkman, a pager, and a clickwheel iPod. The pager's backlight and the iPod's equalizer animate, with still images for Reduce Motion and Low Power Mode. Restore the original cover whenever you like. The entire custom-cover feature is exclusive to Duo. You can also opt in to showing your cover on Duo's outer screen while reading with Duo open. This setting is off by default and requires camera access. It keeps the camera active, shows its green indicator, and uses extra battery. No camera images or audio are recorded or sent. The camera stops when you close the book or Duo, open a reader panel, leave the app, or turn the setting off. RECAP SO FAR On supported Apple Intelligence devices, LightReadr can generate a short reminder of what's happened in your book so far, based on what you've actually read. YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE Reading progress, bookmarks, and highlights sync across your devices through your own iCloud account; never through a LightReadr server. No LightReadr account. No ads.