L&N Reader vs Plain Reader

Lectures and Narrations — a player for enhanced, multi-voice .m4b audiobooks on iPhone and iPad, with an EPUB companion reader that highlights the text in sync with the narration. PLAYER • Chapter-relative scrubbing with a whole-book progress strip and live time remaining. • ±10/30 s skips, previous/next chapter, tappable chapter list. • Pitch-preserving 0.5×–3× speed, remembered across launches. • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center support. • Mini-player on every screen — skips, chapter and book progress, and a Read shortcut. • Auto-saves your position and resumes where you left off. CAST ANYWHERE • AirPlay and Google Cast, side by side — stream to any speaker or TV while the sleep timer, reader sync, and progress saving keep working. READER + SYNC • Attach the matching EPUB and a sync manifest, and the text highlights itself in sync with the audio, scrolling and turning pages as you listen. • Manual paging pauses following; Resume jumps back to the narrated line. • Whole-book text search with in-place highlighting. • Light/dark mode and adjustable text size, both remembered. LIBRARY • Import .m4b audiobooks from the Files app — or AirDrop a book to your device and it imports itself. • Covers with progress bars; folder-style collections you can arrange by hand. • Finish a book in a collection and the next one is offered by its cover. IMAGES • Every illustration embedded in the audiobook, in a gallery with pinch zoom — and as tappable markers on the player scrubber. SLEEP TIMER • By time or by chapters, with volume fade-out, postpone, and shake-to-postpone. ONE ECOSYSTEM, TWO HALVES LN began as an AI experiment in book understanding — using language models to analyze narrative structure, character traits, and scene dynamics — and grew into an end-to-end pipeline for immersive, multi-voice audiobooks. ln-vox, the creator: an offline, self-hosted AI pipeline that ingests raw text or EPUBs, orchestrates LLMs to cast characters and direct emotional delivery, then uses local TTS to generate a fully acted, multi-voice .m4b complete with text-to-audio sync markers. ln-reader, the consumer: this app — built specifically to play those enhanced audiobooks. Free public-domain sample books: https://github.com/vibetuned/ln-samples Everything stays on your device — no accounts, no analytics, no servers. More at https://ln.vibetuned.com

Plain Reader opens your books, PDFs, comics and image folders right where they are — in Files, iCloud Drive, or on a USB drive or external SSD. No account, no import, no copies. READ, NOTHING ELSE • Menus stay hidden while you read. Tap the center to bring them back. • Pages fill the screen. Swipe, tap the sides, or drag the slider to jump anywhere. • Turn your iPhone or iPad sideways for two-page spreads, with the cover on its own. • Turn pages with a Bluetooth page turner or a keyboard. TXT AND EPUB • Choose the font, size, line spacing, margins and theme — pages reflow to fit. • Listen: books in 31 languages are read aloud by natural voices made on your device. • Table of contents, search and bookmarks. TXT text encoding is detected automatically. COMICS AND MANGA • Opens ZIP and CBZ archives without unpacking them — even ones with thousands of pages. • Right-to-left reading for manga. • A folder of images opens as one book. PDF • Sharp pages, search, table of contents, thumbnails and text selection. • Two-page spreads on wide screens. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS • Files are read in place and never uploaded anywhere. • Bookmarks and your reading position are kept for every book. • Works with iCloud Drive and external storage through the Files app. PLAIN READER PRO Plain Reader is free with a small banner ad. Watch one short video ad to read without banner ads for 2 hours, or to use Listen for 1 hour. Plain Reader Pro removes all ads and adds unlimited Listen, Auto Page Turn, and blocking the apps you pick while you read. Choose a Monthly or Yearly subscription — Yearly starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers — or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Restore it on your iPhone and iPad with the same Apple Account. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://ourbeom.com/plainreader/terms Privacy Policy: https://ourbeom.com/plainreader/privacy