LightReadr vs FolioLink

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.

FolioLink is the iPhone companion for e-readers running Folio, the open-source firmware for the Xteink X4 Pro. Open the app and everything your reader has collected is already here. READING STATISTICS • Daily goal, streaks and a reading calendar • Weekly charts and reading by time of day • A review card for today, this week, month, year or any period you choose LIBRARY • All books on your reader with their progress • Statuses — want to read, reading, finished — and shelves that sync back to the reader HIGHLIGHTS AND VOCABULARY • Highlights you make on the reader, with chapter, position and your notes • Every word you looked up in the reader's dictionary, with its context • Export highlights to Markdown SLEEP SCREENS • Design dashboard and quote sleep screens and send them to the reader YOUR READER, FROM YOUR PHONE • Send books, web articles and fonts over Wi‑Fi • Change reader settings and save reader screenshots to Photos • Install signed firmware updates, confirmed on the reader itself • Changes made away from the reader wait in a queue and are sent when it connects • Optional background sync over Bluetooth PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no analytics. FolioLink talks only to your own reader on your local network or over Bluetooth, and pairing with a PIN makes sure nobody else on the network can change it. No reader yet? Tap “Try without a reader” to explore the app with sample books and data. FolioLink requires an e-reader running the Folio firmware (github.com/guloff/folio-firmware). FolioLink is an independent project and is not affiliated with Xteink.