Issa Reader vs TTSReader

Read a book and hear it at the same time. Each sentence lights up as the narrator reaches it, the page turns itself to follow, and you can stop reading, keep listening, and pick up on the same sentence. Issa Reader is a native app for Storyteller, the self-hosted server that aligns an ebook with its audiobook. Bring your own server and your own books. There is no shop, no catalogue and no account with us. WHAT YOU NEED Your library and read-along come from a Storyteller server you run yourself. Without one, you can still read DRM-free EPUBs from Files or iCloud Drive, kept on this device alone. READ ALONG This is what Storyteller is for. Where a book has narration aligned to its text, each sentence lights up as it is spoken, the page turns itself to follow, and double-tapping a line starts the narrator there. Your place is shared between reading and listening, so the two stay in step. 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. ASK ABOUT THE BOOK Lost track of who someone is? Ask. On devices with Apple Intelligence, the answer is worked out on your device from the part you have already read, never from further on. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open and held wide, a book reads as two pages either side of the fold, and your shelf sits beside the book you chose. Prop it open like a laptop and a narrated book shows the sentence on the upper half and the player on the lower. Closed, the reader's tools stand in a rail down the side. 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. 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. Download books to read and listen offline. ON EVERY SCREEN A Home Screen widget shows your current book, chapter and progress. Native apps for Apple TV and the Mac are included, and Handoff carries your place between them. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account with us, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The developer receives no data of any kind. Issa Reader is open source under the MIT licence, written in Swift, and respects Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and reduced motion throughout. Issa Reader is an independent client and is not affiliated with the Storyteller project.

Turn any PDF, ebook, document or web article into audio. TTSReader reads text aloud with natural voices and highlights every word as it speaks, so you can listen, follow along, or both. Free, with no subscription and no ads. Reading needs no account, and the voices built into the app work offline on your iPhone or iPad. LISTEN TO ANYTHING – PDF reader aloud that keeps the original page layout – EPUB books, Word (DOCX), RTF, ODT, HTML, TXT and Markdown – Paste text or share a link to listen to articles – Scan a page with the camera or pick a photo: text recognition turns paper into speech – 1,100+ classic books in the public domain, sorted into shelves and ready to play – 800+ free audiobooks read by LibriVox volunteers, with chapters you can download SKIPS WHAT YOU DON'T NEED – Auto-Skip leaves out page headers and footers, footnotes, tables, formulas and links – Choose what to skip; skipped parts stay visible on the page, the voice just doesn't read them FOLLOW EVERY WORD – Word-by-word and sentence highlighting in text and PDF view – Tap any word to start reading from there – Focus mode dims the rest of the page: helpful for dyslexia, ADHD and tired eyes – Reading fonts for easier reading, including a dyslexia-friendly font – Bookmarks, and a pronunciation dictionary for names and terms 40+ VOICES IN 31 LANGUAGES – Multilingual voices built in: read 31 languages right away, offline – Natural US and UK English voices as a one-time free download – Optional online HD voices, clearly marked, used only when you pick one – With offline voices, your documents never leave your device LISTEN ANYWHERE – CarPlay, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with the spoken word highlighted – Any reading speed from 0.5× to 3×, plus Learn and Bedtime modes – Save any text as an audio file – Continue listening from Home, a widget or Control Center – Daily goal, reminders, streaks and weekly progress COMMUNITY – Ask questions, share ideas and vote for what we build next – Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to post Terms: https://ttsreader.app/terms Privacy: https://ttsreader.app/privacy