Alternatives

Products that do what Ghost Reader does

On-device text-to-speech for iPhone. No signup. No cloud.

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Reader Alive▲105
Translate, listen to, and ask questions about your ebooks
May 2026 · readeralive.com
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Elevenreader by ElevenLabs▲226
Elevate your listening experience
2025
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Ghostly▲84
iPhone app for Ghost blogs
2014
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BookRead▲419
AI-powered E-Reader that makes reading effortless
2025
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Speechify Reader▲83
Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader
2022
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Whisper Notes▲115
Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025
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ReadHere▲146
Lightweight PDF & EPUB reader in your browser
Jun 2026 · readhere.app
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Bookaroozie▲135
AI powered Kindle alternative that works with PDFs, EPUBs
2025
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ElevenLabs Reader▲248
Listen to anything on the go with the highest quality voices
2024
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LaterAI▲116
AI-powered reading, 100% on your device
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com
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Quiet Reader (Mac)▲83
Read articles + text blocks (any app) distraction free.
2022
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Text Reader AI▲158
Free text-to-speech generator with realistic AI voices
2024
13RI
ReadToMe (iOS) turns paper books into audio▲74
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
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PageEcho▲12
An offline-first AI eBook reader that runs fully on-device
Dec 2025
15OI
Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks▲84
Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…
2024 · oration.app
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Read To Me▲114
Turn Any PDF into an Audiobook
2024
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Kdan Mobile PDF Reader▲97
PDF editor designed for all the ways you work
2020
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e-Doc▲74
Scan and convert your pdf file into an audio book
2022
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DopeDoc▲94
A terminal based PDF question answering AI
2023
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Readaway 2.0▲97
Let your ears do the reading.
2019
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UPDF 2.0 for iOS ▲12
Full-power PDF editing & AI chat for iPhone/iPad.
Jan 2026
22IB
I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks▲6
I had a bunch of ebooks with no audiobook version available. So I built an iOS app that converts EPUB files into audiobooks using text-to-speech. Two voice options: - Free on-device voices (processed locally, no server needed) - Natural cloud voices (one-time purchase per book, no subscription) Cloud conversion runs chunk by chunk. You can start listening other chapters generate in the background. Once done, the audiobook lives on your device. No account required. No subscription. You import your own EPUBs and either use device TTS for free or pay per book for the cloud voices. Nothing…
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com
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Echo Reading▲4
Kindle-like PDF reader with AI chat integration
Feb 2026
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LiBook▲3
EPUB, PDF & TXT eBook reader with TTS and character tracking
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com

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