Hear EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 books read aloud

Open EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 and FB2 ebooks without DRM and listen in a natural voice that runs on your iPhone, chapter by chapter, with your place kept.

Short answer

Share or import an EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 file without DRM and press play. The book opens in your Books folder with its cover, chapters and your place kept, and a natural voice reads it offline. Books locked with DRM in another store stay in that store's app.

Your ebooks already hold the text a voice needs. Open the common formats you own without DRM and hear them the way a narrator reads: chapter titles as titles, numerals as numbers, dialogue as dialogue.

Formats that open

FormatNotes
EPUBThe open standard most stores and libraries use
MOBI and AZW3Kindle formats, without DRM
FB2Common for Russian and Eastern European books

Add a book

Share the file from Files, Mail or Safari, or tap + in the app and choose Import files and books. The book lands in Books with its cover.

Hear it like a narrator

  • Chapter I becomes "chapter one", Henry VIII becomes "Henry the eighth".
  • Mr. and Mrs. stay inside their sentence, so dialogue flows.
  • Turn on character voices and each character speaks in a voice of their own.

Keep your place

Every book remembers where you stopped. The card on your shelf shows how much is left at your speed, from 0.75x to 3x.

Where it stops

  • Books with DRM stay in the app of the store that sold them.
  • A book with drop-cap images can lose the first letter of a chapter.

Questions you ask about this

Can I open books I bought on Kindle?
Books bought on Amazon carry DRM, so they stay in the Kindle app. MOBI and AZW3 files without DRM open fine.
Where do I find books without DRM?
Public-domain libraries like Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, and many publishers that sell DRM-free ebooks.
Does it remember where I stopped?
Yes. Every book keeps its place, and the card on your shelf shows how much is left at your speed.

Listen to your own PDFs and books.

Open a PDF, an ebook or a web page on your iPhone, press play, and listen offline. Join the list for launch day.