MapleRead CE vs ListenBook Pro

MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone. ------------ Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX. - SE is our flagship product with all features. - CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server. - CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try. - No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional. - Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking. - Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server. - Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value. ------------ MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader. - It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste. - It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages. - It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync. - Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay. MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages. - Books can be read in regular and large print. - A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable. MapleRead is a great learning tool. - It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes. - It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities. - It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools. - Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books. MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool. - It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection. - It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically. - It lets you display your books elegantly in style. - It lets you easily repair individual book metadata. - If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags. - It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre. MapleRead supports secure sync across devices via MapleRead Cloud and iCloud. - It syncs reading positions, notes, vocab, bookmarks, and book set membership (but not the books). - It syncs reading positions additionally via iCloud for even better user experience. - It enables web access to synced data via web browsers from desktop and mobile devices. MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options. - They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes. - Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors. - Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style. [For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]

Play your own audiobooks on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Any format — no conversion needed. Listen on Watch without your iPhone. Free books via LibriVox, built in. ••• The app does not feature any audiobooks, but only plays your own audio files ••• The purpose of this app is to make listening to audiobooks in different formats easy and convenient! There are lots of websites with all kinds of audiobooks dubbed by professional actors and enthusiasts. Most of such audiobooks are distributed as folders with multiple audiofiles in different formats. I'm, the author of the app, listen to audiobooks all the time. Therefore, I did my best to make ListenBook a tool that has everything necessary to make this process intuitive and convenient. • Plays audiobooks in MP3, MP4, OPUS, OGG, FLAC, AWB, M4B, M4A, WMA, AAC formats (without DRM protection). • A full standalone player on your wrist. Download books to your Watch via Wi-Fi and listen without your iPhone nearby. Switch between standalone and remote control modes with one tap. Browse chapters and your Watch library right from your wrist. • Adjustable playback quality (0.5x to 5.0x). • Changing the timbre of the reader's voice • LibriVox.org integration. Tens of thousands of public domain books are available to download and listen to in ListenBook for free. • Intelligent noise reduction • Support for chapters from OverDrive • Binaural audio processing to reduce fatigue when listening to books/music through headphones (available when using the Universal audio engine) • Boost sound ( for audiobooks with low volume ) • The book cover is loaded from an image file in the book’s folder or from an embedded image from an audio file. • Automatically saves the current playback position for all audiobooks. • Supports CarPlay and integrations with over 50 other car models from Ford, GM, Mazda, BMW, Jaguar, Landrover and many more • Jump to any file (can be enabled in settings). • Supports standard headphone controls. • Widgets for the desktop and lock screen (available from iOS16+) • Supports Apple Watch. • Playback control from the Control Center and Block screen. • A sleep timer with adjustable sleep periods or sleep after the end of the current chapter. • Possibility to add/remove books through iTunes and from the computer via Wi-Fi • Support WebDav for adding audiobooks directly from Explorer on PC or from Finder on MacOS If you enjoy ListenBook, we would be glad if you consider writing a review.