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24 alternatives to Booktime
Simple audiobook player with several great features
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Booktime launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ReadBit▲122Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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Instaread▲299Read or hear key takeaways of any book in minutes
2016 · instaread.co · its alternatives →
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Bookstash▲512Get the essentials of top books in under 3 minutes
2021 · bookstash.io · its alternatives →
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Pocket Listen▲425Reading is hard. Listen to articles instead.
2015 · getpocket.com · its alternatives →
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Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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Elevate your listening experience
2025 · elevenreader.io · its alternatives →
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Easiest app for listening audiobooks on your iOS device!
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader
2022 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on BookWith, an open-source e-book reader that integrates AI as your reading companion. The problem: Traditional e-readers are passive. When you encounter something unclear, you have to context-switch to search for it. Your highlights and notes remain isolated, and you can't easily connect ideas across different books. My solution: BookWith embeds an AI that maintains full context of what you're reading. It features: - Context-aware AI chat: Ask questions about the current page/chapter and get instant answers - AI podcast generation: Automatically converts book…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eary▲79The easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Novel Effect▲83Music and sounds follow along as you read aloud together.
2018 · noveleffect.com · its alternatives →
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I'm launching something that started as a side project publicly today: ReadToMe, which is an iPhone app that turns paper books and other printed text into audio. Originally this was a Christmas present for my fiancée, who loves books but has an eye problem that makes it hard for her to read more than a few pages at a time. She mostly listens to audiobooks while following along with the paper book, but some books aren't available in audiobook or even e-book form, and all of the existing apps we tried were surprisingly bad at scanning paper books into audio — they make lots of mistakes,…
2024 · readtome-app.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Miran Antamian, founder and CEO of BookWatch, and I’m thrilled to introduce BookWatch.com. The first AI-powered Visual Library for learners who hate reading but love growing. After 1.5 years of building, 65,000+ mobile app users, and countless animated summaries, we’re launching our New Web App to make learning even more effortless. The Problem: Visual Learners Can’t Learn from Books in Text or Audio Formats Did you know that 65% of people identify as visual learners? Yet most book knowledge remains trapped in text format. Many of us want the wisdom of great books but struggle…
2025 · bookwatch.com · its alternatives →
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Audible.com▲75The best way to listen to Audiobooks on your iPhone
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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Bookmory▲75You can make reading logs and see them anywhere
2021 · bookmory.web.app · its alternatives →
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