BookFun eBook & TTS vs Audia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookFun eBook & TTS
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BookFun is a beautifully crafted, high-performance offline eBook reader and audiobook companion tailored for avid readers. We believe quiet reading hours are priceless, so we designed BookFun with a distraction-free, zero-ad philosophy—letting you immerse yourself entirely in the written word. Whether TXT, AZW3, MOBI, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown, or PDF, BookFun unifies parsing upon import to produce consistent local reading data. Different formats, the same seamless reading experience. No longer disturbed by varying HTML tags, layouts, or arbitrary styles. Read immediately upon import with minimal wait, presenting text, images, and content in a unified, comfortable format. [Key Features & Highlights] ◆ Versatile Multi-Format Engine - Comprehensive support for TXT, EPUB, MOBI, Markdown, and other major eBook formats. Equipped with an advanced layout pagination engine that opens 10,000-chapter epics in milliseconds, offering fluid page turns and minimal memory consumption. ◆ Instant Text Proofreading & Content Purification - Tired of typos, formatting errors, or unwanted watermarks? Simply select text to create a custom proofreading rule. The page instantly re-renders in milliseconds without closing the book. Supports full-book scans and batch rule management for publication-grade typography. ◆ Smart Online Cover Scraping & Enhancement - Missing book covers? Search and preview high-definition covers directly from integrated online engines. Covers are automatically cropped to an elegant 0.72 golden publication ratio. ◆ Custom Bookshelf Folders & Sub-Shelves - Organize your library with 2x2 preview folder cards (e.g., "Sci-Fi", "Classics"). Manage your collection effortlessly with batch-moving, tags, ratings, and individual book profiles. ◆ Immersive Read-Aloud (TTS) Experience - Transform any book into an audiobook. Features a draggable floating playback capsule, smooth viewport centering, current-sentence highlighting, and seamless Bluetooth/lock-screen controls. Supports neural AI voices with smooth network drop-recovery. ◆ True Physical-Interval Reading Statistics - Independent tracking for reading and listening. Built on a physical time-interval union algorithm that prevents artificial inflation, complete with daily Treemap breakdowns, 7-day reading trends, and cumulative reading days. ◆ Home NAS / SMB Network Sync - Connect your home NAS or shared PC folders directly over SMB. Automatically sync new chapters and update reading progress across your personal devices without cables. ◆ Fast Single-Tier Backup & Disaster Recovery - A clean, local-first archive architecture. Package your books, typography schemes, reading progress, and notes with one tap, and restore them anytime with total privacy. BookFun From import, reading, and listening, to authoring, updates, statistics, and backup—making eBook reading simpler than ever.
Audia
Listen to your documents, PDFs, and articles with natural-sounding voices. Customize reading speed, pronunciation, and use a sleep timer. Import various file formats and access a library of free books.
- Natural neural voices
- Adjustable reading speed
- Customizable pronunciation
- Sleep timer
- Offline reading
- Import various file formats
- Audia Library access
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Listen to your books, PDFs and articles while you walk, commute or rest your eyes. Audia reads your text aloud on your iPhone or iPad, with natural voices and no subscription. READ WITH YOUR EYES OR YOUR EARS Choose from 15 built-in neural voices across 31 reading languages. Adjust the speed, follow the highlighted words, set a sleep timer and customize pronunciation. Organize your library in folders and transfer documents from your computer over local Wi-Fi. YOUR TEXT, NARRATED ON YOUR DEVICE Imported content can be read aloud offline, without uploading it to a speech service. Internet is needed to fetch web articles and download books from Audia Library. START FREE. UPGRADE ONCE. The free plan has a daily limit on premium-voice listening. Audia Plus is a one-time in-app purchase for unlimited premium listening, CarPlay, bookmarks, full-book search and M4A audio export. BRING YOUR BOOKS OR FIND A NEW READ Import DRM-free EPUB, PDF with selectable text, MOBI/AZW/PRC, TXT, RTF, DOCX, ODT and FB2, or paste text and web articles. Protected ebooks and image-only PDFs are not supported. Explore classics and Audia Originals in Audia Library. The library gradually grows with new titles. Books have no additional charge; your plan's listening limits still apply. Tap + to explore and start listening.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BookFun eBook & TTS at none against Audia's 2. Audia's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Audia sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. BookFun eBook & TTS asks for nothing beyond the download.
BookFun eBook & TTS ships an update fortnightly, Audia every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookFun eBook & TTS | Audia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 254 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宇 周 | Leopoldo Manuel Romacho |
In-app purchases
BookFun eBook & TTS
No in-app purchases
Audia
- Audia Plus$3.99
- Audia Plus Team Support$49.99









