Comparison

Audia vs Nekoyomi

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Audia

Listen to your documents, books, and articles with natural-sounding voices. Customize reading speed, pronunciation, and use a sleep timer. Import various file formats and read offline.

Highlights
  • Natural neural voices
  • Adjustable reading speed
  • Customizable pronunciation
  • Sleep timer
  • Offline reading
  • Import various file formats
  • Library organization
Features
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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.

About

Nekoyomi

Features
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Keep your eyes still. Let the words come to you. Nekoyomi shows text a phrase at a time, right in the middle of the screen, so your eyes don’t have to travel across the page. It’s a little faster than turning pages, and a lot calmer than skimming. PAUSE, AND IT’S A BOOK Tap to stop and you land on a normal page, exactly where you were. Read a line back, long-press to highlight or copy, then speed-read again from any sentence you like. YOUR RHYTHM Steady like a metronome, a breath at every comma, a touch slower on long words, or a natural read-aloud pace. Show one word at a time or a few together. Long-press while reading to change speed and rhythm on the fly. LISTEN, OR READ IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE Listen to books and web articles with your choice of voice and speed. Set a sleep timer for bedtime. Translate the full text into a supported language, then read, listen to or save the translation. Some voices and translation languages need a download first. OPENS ALMOST ANYTHING EPUB, PDF, MOBI and AZW3 (DRM-free), KEPUB, FB2, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML, RTF, plain text and more. Over 15 formats in all. Illustrations show up too, and stay on screen a beat longer. Drop files into the app’s folder in Files and they appear on your shelf. THE WEB, TOO Open an article in the built-in browser and tap the speed-reading button. Menus and ads fall away, leaving the story. Save it to your library with its inline photos, illustrations and captions, and choose a collection to keep it in. FREE CLASSICS, ONE TAP AWAY Browse Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, Wikisource and Aozora Bunko right inside the app. Or choose Random and a category to add a book, news article or encyclopedia entry. New additions stand out until you first open them. A SHELF OF YOUR OWN Create collections for novels, work or study. Put the Continue Reading widget on your Home Screen to pick up where you left off. Optional reminders let you choose a time and only notify you on days you haven’t read. MADE FOR MANY LANGUAGES Use the app in 18 languages, including right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew. Japanese is split into natural phrases and can be read vertically. Chinese and Thai are split into words. Newly imported books and articles can retain their original Japanese ruby annotations for display and read-aloud. EASY ON THE EYES Paper, sepia, night and black themes, a handful of typefaces, and a choice of embroidered-cat app icons, because why not. NEKOYOMI PRO • No ads • iCloud sync for your books, place, bookmarks and highlights • Save articles from Safari to read later • News and RSS feeds that fill your shelf on their own • Color highlights and notes, with export to Markdown, Notion or Readwise • Reading stats: time spent, characters read, speed over time, streaks • Burroughs Mode: rearrange fragments from books on your shelf or the web into new prose, poems or lyrics, with source references Choose a monthly plan or a one-time purchase. Eligible subscribers can try the monthly plan free for one week. The monthly plan renews automatically unless it’s cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial or the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. You can cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tsubamemagic.com/rsvp/privacy.html

Screenshots

Audia4 screens
Nekoyomi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Audia at none against Nekoyomi's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Audia sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Nekoyomi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Audia ships an update every 5 days, Nekoyomi every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Audia versus Nekoyomi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudiaNekoyomi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB96 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLeopoldo Manuel RomachoTaiki Morinaga

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Audia

One-time2
  • Audia Plus$3.99
  • Audia Plus Team Support$49.99
2 purchases

Nekoyomi

Subscriptions1
  • Nekoyomi Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Nekoyomi Pro (Lifetime)$9.99

Questions

Is Audia free?
Audia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nekoyomi free?
Nekoyomi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Audia or Nekoyomi have ads?
Nekoyomi shows ads; Audia does not.
Which is updated more often, Audia or Nekoyomi?
Audia ships an update every 5 days, and Nekoyomi every 4 days. Most recently, Audia was updated on October 29, 2026 and Nekoyomi on October 29, 2026.

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