Witbound vs ReadStream

It was never you. Audiobooks give your eyes nothing to do, so your mind wanders and you lose the thread. Witbound lines up the real audiobook you already own with the real ebook text, word by word, so your eyes follow every word as the narrator speaks it. Not a robot voice, and not a machine's guess at the words. The actual book, correctly spelled and laid out, moving in time with the narration. That is what makes it work for dyslexia, ADHD, and reading in another language, where the words have to be right. Everything happens on your phone unless you choose Cloud sync, which is optional and off until you turn it on. It sends an English audiobook's audio to Witbound's server over Wi-Fi so the book syncs sooner, and the audio is deleted after. Your ebook never leaves the device, and there is no account and no tracking. Bring your own epub, PDF, m4b or mp3, or connect your Audiobookshelf server. Popular books are ready in seconds. Your first book syncs free. After that, Witbound Plus unlocks your whole shelf. Buy it once with the lifetime unlock: a single payment to your Apple Account, yours to keep, with nothing to renew. Or choose the yearly plan, an auto-renewing subscription charged to your Apple Account each year until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://witbound.co.uk/privacy.html

ReadStream is a reading app for people who love books — whether you read them yourself or listen to them read back to you. I built it because I was tired of losing my place in downloaded books and chapters, juggling formats, and never quite knowing where I'd left off. If that sounds familiar, this might be the app you've been looking for. What you can do with it: • Import books and chapters in Word, EPUB or PDF format, organise them into series, and always come back to exactly where you stopped. • Fetch chapters from sites like Royal Road or Project Gutenberg, keep them in your library, and pull in updates whenever new ones appear. • Listen to your books read aloud — useful when your eyes are tired, or when you'd rather just close them and let the story come to you. • Save articles from the web and follow RSS feeds, so your long-form reading and the stories you track all live in the same place. • Keep notes as you go, against any book or chapter, without needing a separate app to do it. • Choose from a range of reading themes, including a warm paper mode that feels closer to an actual page than a screen. Most reading apps are built around content they want to sell you. ReadStream is built around content you've already found. Your imported chapters, your downloaded audiobooks, the serials you follow on Patreon or Royal Road — it's all treated as first-class material, organised the way you'd want a proper library to work. Everything stays on your device. Nothing is chasing you for your attention. It won't suit everyone. If you want a shop, a social feed, or reading challenges with badges, this isn't that. It's a quiet app for people who just want to read. If your reading life is currently scattered across half a dozen folders and formats, ReadStream is one place to bring it home. https://dscreations.co.uk/readstream/support