MagicReader vs Doomread

Read without touching the screen. MagicReader is a hands-free reader for EPUB, PDF and comics: turn your head, wave a hand, wink, or just say "next page" — and the page turns. Or sit back and let a natural voice read to you. Whether your hands are busy, wet, full, or simply resting — or touching the screen is difficult for you — MagicReader keeps the story going. NEW: OPENS LIKE A REAL BOOK • Ready for iPhone Duo — unfold it and your book becomes a two-page spread, with the spine right on the fold • Landscape reading — two pages side by side on iPad and most iPhones, for EPUB, PDF and comics, including vertical Japanese books • Flip page turns — pages turn over like paper and follow your finger • Split View on iPad and iPhone Duo TOUCH-FREE READING • Head control — turn your head left or right to flip pages; look up to open or close a book • Wink control — wink your right eye to go forward, your left to go back (Face ID devices) • Hand control — a cursor follows your hand; close your hand to grab a book, swipe from the screen edge to flip • Voice control — say "next", "back", "open", "read aloud" and more, in English, Japanese, Spanish, French or German • A guided tour teaches every gesture with live practice NATURAL READ-ALOUD • Natural, expressive voices read your EPUB books aloud — in English and Japanese • The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and pages turn in step with the narration • English narration powered by Kokoro; Japanese voices powered by VOICEVOX (VOICEVOX:No.7, VOICEVOX:四国めたん, VOICEVOX:青山龍星, VOICEVOX Nemo) • Books in Spanish, French and German are read by your device's system voice for that language, with nothing to download • Natural voices are downloaded once, then work fully offline — all speech is generated on your device YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • EPUB and PDF books, plus CBZ/CBR comics and manga • Beautiful animated bookshelf themes — drifting watercolour clouds, a starry cosmos, and story worlds that come alive behind special books • Japanese vertical text (縦書き) done right, with optional automatic furigana (ふりがな) above kanji • Comfortable reading themes, adjustable fonts (including OpenDyslexic for dyslexia-friendly reading), and remembered positions THOUSANDS OF FREE CLASSICS • Browse and download public-domain classics from Project Gutenberg and Aozora Bunko (青空文庫) — from Alice in Wonderland to 銀河鉄道の夜 — right inside the app PRIVATE BY DESIGN • The camera and microphone are used only to recognize your gestures and commands, entirely on your device • Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded, and there are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking — ever MagicReader began in 2012 as one of the first face-controlled book readers on the App Store. It has been rebuilt from the ground up for today's devices — same magic, new tricks. Reading is best when nothing comes between you and the story. Not even your hands.

You lose hours a day to an infinite feed. Doomread gives that habit somewhere better to go. Swap thirty minutes of scrolling for reading and that is about twenty-four books a year. The time already exists. Doomread is built around that one swap. A SHELF, NOT A BACKLOG Your shelf holds what you are actually reading. Swipe through it, tap a cover, and you are in the book. No to-read list growing behind you, no guilt counter. READ THE WHOLE BOOK 22 classics ship with the app, in full — 1.7 million words, free and out of copyright. Gandhi's Freedom's Battle. Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Marcus Aurelius. Sun Tzu. Frederick Douglass. Frankenstein. Dracula. Sherlock Holmes. The Science of Getting Rich. Read them chapter by chapter, set the type to a size that suits you, and pick up where you left off. 279 BOOKS, 16 SHELVES Every cover is already on your phone. Browse by Literary Fiction, Classics, Thrillers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Biography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Business, Science, Poetry, Adventure and Historical Fiction. MARK WHAT MATTERED Hold any paragraph to highlight it. Highlights collect in your journal as pull quotes, with the book and chapter they came from, so the passage that stayed with you is still there in six months. EVERY BOOK IN TEN PAGES Every one of the 279 books comes with a 10-page read written in our own words: what the book is about, its key insights, the examples that make them land, what to take away, the lines worth remembering, and what to read next. HOURS, NOT TROPHIES The journal shows six months of reading at a glance: a day-by-day grid, where your time went by subject, and your streaks. It counts hours rather than titles finished, and never shows a number it has not earned. YOURS, QUIETLY Sign in with Apple, or read as a guest. Your shelf and highlights stay on this iPhone. Light and dark themes. No ads. No feed. No leaderboard. Nobody else's reading to compare yourself against.