Issa Reader vs Afterword

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.

Afterword is a reader for the books you own. EPUB, PDF, comics and audiobooks open in one calm, paper-like app, and every book you finish ends with an afterword written from your own reading. READ - Real page turns that follow your finger, or slide, fade and scroll - Ink & Paper themes, warm night colors, light and dark appearance, and fonts made for reading, including Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and OpenDyslexic - Highlights, notes and bookmarks that sync through iCloud - A translation under each paragraph with Apple Translation - Scanned PDFs made searchable right on your iPhone - On iPad: two-page spreads, a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts LISTEN - Audiobooks with chapters, a sleep timer and Lock Screen controls - Line an audiobook up with its ebook and read along word by word - Read aloud in Apple voices or your own Personal Voice YOUR LIBRARY, WHEREVER IT LIVES - Import from Files or the share sheet - Browse and download from Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, the calibre content server and other OPDS catalogs - Play from your Audiobookshelf server - Sync your place with KOReader, highlights with Readwise and shelves with Hardcover - Free classics from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Wikisource REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ - Your Afterword: finish a book and get a closing page made from the passages you lingered on, the pages you went back to, your highlights and the nights you read - Your year, wrapped: pages to tap through and share, with the books you finished, the book you lived in, your reading clock and the page that held you - A library card for every book, stamped with each day you read it - Reread with your past self: earlier highlights and notes show faded, with their year - Notes to future you that come back in a year, or on your next reread - The Daily Edition: a front page for your reading every morning READ WITH OTHERS - Book clubs: read one book with friends over a few weeks, each at your own pace. Check in, leave notes at any page, and notes from further in stay hidden until you get there. Anyone with the link joins free. - Read Together: the same book with friends over FaceTime or Messages, seeing each other's place and highlights. Anyone can join for free. SMART, NOT SPOILERY - Ask This Book, Story So Far and Who's Who answer from the pages you have read, never past them, using Apple Intelligence on your device PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account. Your books and notes stay on your devices and in your iCloud unless you turn on an outside service. AFTERWORD PLUS (OPTIONAL) Afterword is free to download and read with. Afterword Plus adds Your Afterword (your first one is free), Reread with your past self, hosting Read Together and book clubs, audiobook read-along, bilingual reading, smart reading, your own servers, sync services and AI narration. Family Sharing is included. If you installed Afterword before 2.0, you keep all of it, free. - Monthly $2.99, Yearly $19.99 with a 2-week free trial for new subscribers, or Lifetime $49.99 one time. Prices may vary by country. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm, or when a free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you subscribe. - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://amgarcia2235.github.io/afterword-privacy/