Issa Reader vs Close Reader

Issa Reader is a native reader for Storyteller, the self-hosted server that lines an ebook up with its audiobook so you can move between reading and listening without losing your place. REQUIRES A STORYTELLER SERVER Issa Reader is a client, not a bookshop. It has no catalogue of its own and nothing to sell you. Point it at a Storyteller server you run, sign in, and read your own library. Without a server, there is nothing here to show you. READ A real typesetting engine, not a web view. Pages are laid out natively, so turning one is instant and the type is properly set. Six bundled reading faces, including Literata, Source Serif 4 and OpenDyslexic, or add a font of your own. Four page themes for daylight, lamplight and the middle of the night. Size, line spacing and justification are yours to set, per book or for everything. LISTEN Variable speed with pitch correction, chapter and sentence navigation, skip controls, a sleep timer, and full Now Playing support on the Lock Screen and in Control Centre. READ ALONG This is what Storyteller is for. Where a book has narration aligned to its text, the words light up as they are spoken, the page turns itself to follow, and tapping any line starts the narrator there. Stop reading, keep listening, and pick up on the same sentence — the two stay in step. IN THE CAR CarPlay gives you your shelves and chapters as proper lists, with Now Playing and a resume that lands on the sentence you left, not somewhere near it. Steering-wheel buttons, headphone controls and on-screen controls can each be remapped independently, so the same button can do different things in different places. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY, ON DEVICE The catalogue is fetched once and kept locally, so searching by title, author, narrator, series or tag is instant and works with no signal at all. Shelves are built on your device from what you actually have. Download books to read and listen offline. ON EVERY SCREEN A Home Screen widget with your current book, chapter and progress. Native apps for Apple TV and the Mac are included with the same purchase, and Handoff carries your place between them. BUILT FOR THESE PLATFORMS Written in Swift for iPhone and iPad, using the system's own text engine, audio stack and accessibility support throughout. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and reduced motion are respected, not retrofitted. Issa Reader is an independent client and is not affiliated with the Storyteller project.

Close Reader is an e-book reader that helps with the hard parts of a book: a word you don’t know, a character you’ve forgotten, a reference that goes over your head. And it never looks past your page. Open your own EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF and TXT books (DRM-free), in any language. There’s no store and no sign-up: add a file from Files, or share it to Close Reader from Mail or a messenger. Help right where you stumble • Press and hold a word: the translation fits this very sentence, not a dictionary entry three screens long. You also get the pronunciation, the part of speech and a short note when it matters. • Reading in your native language? You get a plain definition instead. • Drag the handles to take in a whole phrase, or tap “Whole sentence” or “Whole paragraph” to translate more at once. • “Who’s this?” reminds you who a character or a place is, using only the pages you’ve already read. • “Explain” gives the background: history, allusions, idioms and old-fashioned phrasing, in plain words and in your language. The AI knows the book only up to your page Every answer is built from what you’ve read so far. The limit is the last line on your screen, and it moves with you. In “No spoilers” mode we don’t even tell the AI which book it is, so it can’t fill in the plot from memory. Finished the book, or reading it again? Switch to “Whole book” and ask anything. Chat with the book • Ask for a recap, who’s who, a timeline, or why a character did what they did. • Coming back after a month? Close Reader offers a recap: the story in brief, then the latest chapters in more detail. • Answers point to the passages they rely on. Tap one to jump to that place in the book. • Every book has its own chat. Keep what matters • “Save word” keeps a word with its translation and the sentence where you met it. Practice with flashcards: the intervals adapt to your memory. • Highlight passages to keep them as excerpts, and write notes on them. • Save a good AI answer to your notes with one tap. • Everything is gathered book by book and opens at the right place. Your vocabulary exports to CSV. Easy on the eyes • Four themes, fonts, text size and line spacing; pages or scrolling. • iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape, with a two-page spread in landscape. • The app speaks 20 languages and translates into more than 40, including your native one, even if the menus are in another. • Sign in to keep books, reading positions, highlights, notes, chats and vocabulary in sync on your iPhone and iPad. Or don’t: everything works without an account. Private by design Your books stay on your device unless you choose to sync them. Text goes to the AI only when you ask for help; we don’t store it, and it isn’t used to train AI models. No ads, no tracking, and we never sell your data. Energy and plans AI help runs on energy. Translating a word costs 1 energy, and bigger requests show their price first. The free plan gives you 1,500 energy every month, no account needed. Reading, notes and flashcards are always free. Every feature is on every plan. Light, Medium and Max just give you more energy (15,000, 40,000 and 80,000 a month), and Medium starts with a 7-day free trial. Extra energy you buy never expires. Subscriptions Light, Medium and Max are auto-renewing subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://closereader.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://closereader.app/privacy