Libratory vs Moonread

Libratory plays an audiobook over the real pages of the book, lighting up the sentence and the word being spoken as it reads. Double-tap a sentence to hear it again. Books are made on your Mac with the free Libratory desktop tool, which pairs a book with its narration and saves both as one synced EPUB. Send that file to your iPhone or iPad with AirDrop or the Files app, tap + on the shelf, and press play. Nothing is streamed, no account is needed, and everything works offline. The app comes with a short three-chapter guide already on the shelf. It is itself a synced book, so reading it is the fastest way to see what the app does. READ AND LISTEN • The voice plays over the printed page, with the sentence and the word highlighted as they are spoken • Double-tap a sentence to hear it from there • Three views of a synced book: Page shows the whole sheet with its pictures and tables, Column crops to the printed words, Text reflows the words at a size you choose • Playback continues with the screen locked, with the chapter, cover and controls on the lock screen • Change the speed and the highlight keeps up READ IN TWO LANGUAGES • A book exported with a translation opens with the original and the translation together, each with its own voice • Tap a word to hear the book from there, or to see what it means in the other language • Sentence pairs reads each sentence and then its translation; each language keeps its own speed, plays each sentence up to five times, and can pause to let you say it back • The original can stay on its printed page beside the translation JUST READ, OR JUST LISTEN • Open an EPUB ebook you already own and read it in Text view • Open an M4B audiobook, pick a chapter, and listen with the screen off PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF • The app remembers your place in every book and shows which parts you have heard • Hold a word to save it, put it in a group, and add a note; find it again in Marks • Search the book and your saved words, then jump back to read or listen KEEP YOUR LIBRARY IN ORDER • Folders and tags for your books, and a search across the whole library • Each book says which chapters light up word by word and which sentence by sentence SHELVES • Pair your phone with the desktop app by scanning the code on its Phone page, and every book it has made is a tap away over your own Wi‑Fi or Tailscale • A public shelf of free, narrated classics is built in, with a two-language Frankenstein among them • Each book says what it offers — read + listen, two languages, words or sentences lit — with its voice, length and a description PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no tracking. The app talks only to the shelves you add and the public shelf, to list and download books; what you read stays on your device. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.6 or later. On iOS 15 and 16, a simpler reader includes Pages and Text, playback, highlighting, chapters, saved progress, and two-language books in two panes. Bookmarks, search, folders and tags require iOS 17 or later. Synced books are made with the Libratory desktop app for Mac, free at libratory.dev. Plain EPUB ebooks and M4B audiobooks open as they are.

Moonread is a TXT reader built for comfortable, uninterrupted reading. Bring your own novels, choose fonts and themed backgrounds, and read with page turns or continuous scrolling. Make the page your own • Adjust font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, and indentation, or import your own reading fonts • Choose Paper grain, Mint leaves, Bamboo Green, or Lilac mist, with a separate texture switch for each theme; Plain White and Pure Black stay texture-free • Let the text scroll at an adjustable speed, and tap the reading area to pause or resume • Read two-page spreads on iPad and foldables when space allows; scrolling stays in one column • Common encodings are detected automatically and can also be selected in Reading Settings Your books, your way • Import TXT files or share them from other apps; use real folders on your device or in iCloud as shelves • Six illustrated cover designs give books without a custom cover a distinctive look that stays with them when renamed or moved • Combine reading status, authors, shelves, and multiple tags with all/any matching, exclusions, and ordered sort criteria • Import and export book information to organize authors, tags, descriptions, custom covers, and reading status outside the app. Review each change on import and choose which file-renaming suggestions to apply • Use the public JSON/JSONL format or a package with cover images; the website includes format documentation and a guide Keep track of your reading • Find your place with contents, in-book full-text search, bookmarks, highlights, and notes • Manage multiple bookmarks and notes, share excerpts with source details, and export a book's notes as Markdown or plain text • View reading time, charts, and books read over 7 days, a month, a year, or all time • Export reading records and palettes as a backup, then import and merge them later Pick up where you left off • With iCloud sync enabled, My Library files and reading records sync across your devices. When another device has read further, choose whether to jump to that position; manually selected encodings can sync too • Resume with Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets, Control Center, Shortcuts, or Siri; find indexed books in Spotlight using their full titles Explore the story with AI • Connect an AI service of your choice to recap the plot, untangle character relationships, or discuss a passage • Refresh model lists for supported providers and explore model capabilities and thinking settings Free, ad-free, and open source under the MIT license. Optional tips in Settings support Moonread's development. Some features are available only in certain regions.