Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech
Heard is an offline iOS EPUB reader with natural text-to-speech. Listen to your own EPUB books or 56 included classics on iPhone—no ads or accounts.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.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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Pocket Listen▲425Reading is hard. Listen to articles instead.
2015 · getpocket.com · its alternatives →
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Elevate your listening experience
2025 · elevenreader.io · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Reader Alive▲105Translate, listen to, and ask questions about your ebooks
May 2026 · readeralive.com · its alternatives →
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ReadBit▲122Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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SpeakLine 5▲117Your text-to-speech companion for macOS, iOS and visionOS
2024 · pxlwaves.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Timber reads any article, book, PDF, or pasted text aloud in natural voices — 324+ free, across 71 languages, all on your iPhone. Built by a teacher. Free on the App Store.
Aug 2026 · timberreader.com · its alternatives →
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Natural Reader▲121The most powerful text to speech reader
2018 · naturalreaders.com · its alternatives →
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FileSpeech▲94PDFs, EPUBs, Webs, convert to neural audio, listen anywhere
2023 · filespeech.com · its alternatives →
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Offline live transcription app for iOS
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · heardapp.com · its alternatives →
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HearIt▲81Create your own audio books from any file for free.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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